Long Long ago, little children, especially little girls collected feathers in Bangalore city. Someone knew of this `below-8-years-trade-among little girls’ and probably even dyed chicken feathers and any white feather into seductive colors, sold them somewhere far away, and by the time it came to us little girls, it felt like such feathers have always been in circulation to skillfully negotiate and procure from within your clique.
Illustration by Anjan PrakashCreditsSound Mix: Nikkhil Shirodkar Background Composition Score: Leonard Cohen – Dance Me to the End of Love Dance… Precise, passionate, highly observant and an excellent instructor, that’s how I would describe my Latin dance teacher. For those of you unfamiliar with Latin dance, Rumba-ChaCha-Jive-Salsa, belong to this family. Most of these dance forms are popular as […]
Shot by : Keshav PrakashEdited by : Bardroy BarrettoGrowing food (guidance/expert advice): Peter Fernandes TRANSCRIPT OF THE VIDEO: Twenty Nine Individuals got planted for germination on 27th Jan. Two days later, I realized one got left out.Maybe this little one wished to be a seed for some more time. So, 28 individuals got sowed on 27th Jan, […]
Listen to the narration or Read the story below There is something about the quality of certain encounters we have in the natural world – it can be with non-human beings or human beings, as both are very much a part of it. These encounters penetrate our soul so deeply, that words, images, expressions […]
‘ You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.’– Rumi Illustration by my beloved friend and artist – Zainab Tambawalla In the last couple of months, I encountered the words home and house several times, due to a personal project that my husband and I have been […]
Oh yes, Oh yes, there is. Here on this earth, no expression is too big or too small. This is what I hear, each time I am immersed in the dawn chorus. Let me first walk you through what this means. Come dawn, and the silence is broken by songs of different birds. While in […]
Dragonflies. That’s what’s possible. Look out of the window, and if we are in Mumbai or in any monsoon/rainy areas of the country, we will spot plenty of dragonflies now, this very season. Over the last few weeks, watching large swarms from my window – hover, fly, change directions rapidly, mate in air, prey as […]
“The words we use shape how we understand ourselves, how we interpret the world, how we treat others. Words make worlds.” Krista Tippett, Founder – On Being After the initial `How are you doing?’, the next question we are often asked during this phase has been, `Are things going back to normal…(in your building/at your […]
Nights. Have you ever spent time with nights? For the longest time, my relationship had largely been two fold – one that indicates to my body, ‘hey its night, wrap up and go to sleep’. The other, on those emotionally unrestful days when I tossed around in bed, and wondered, ‘why am I not able […]
Dawn is a beautiful part of the day. It brings with it a certain crispness, freshness, and an invitation to a new beginning. So this dawn, I went home-gathering in the rain, two things I so love (dawn and rain). Home gathering? In this monsoon, the tides have brought with them the thousands of homes, […]