This is my proudest moment of the fellowship and I am choosing to write about this on our 68th Indian Republic Day for a reason. Do read it you want to stay awe-struck and inspired. I was taking 31 of my girls back to Delhi after a 7 day retreat to Patiala. My co-teacher Swati…
‘ Dream is not that you see in sleep. Dream is something that does not let you sleep.’ Dear Nagma, I cant think of anybody else who lives this quote every single day the way you do. I still remember the first memory I have of you, the first time I noticed you. It was…
‘And why do you think psychoanalysis came up?’ Asked the guest professor, Dr Anup Dhar. Because Freud realized that freely talking about events led to healing. Answered a girl. ‘ And why do you feel that way?’ ‘Ummm.. Because people don’t talk about their problems?’ ‘ Why bhai? Why don’t they talk about it?’ ‘Societal…
By: Ankita Nawalakha Reverent politicians, You are right. Let us ban the 16th December documentary. After all, it is derogatory, it is ‘attacking’ the dignity of women in general, and Nirbhaya in particular. He is a rapist, why should anybody interview him? He is ‘encouraging’ more rapes. The documentary made by foreign director is tarnishing…
By: Ankita Nawalakha I just want to be an observer, a silent observer to everything happening. I don’t want to judge anybody, neither be judged. I don’t want to expect neither be expected from. I want to fly. Fly away. Fly over. Fly across. I don’t want to think about the past or the future.…
The rain wouldn’t stop. And I had to reach college in ten minutes for I had a test. I waited outside the metro station and looked for an auto, desperately. One after the other, autos passed. I cursed all of them. Bloody idiots. And then suddenly, one autowallah stopped, seeing how flustered I was. And…
A sunny day in a chilly month of January. I was walking from Metro station to my home, the loud music from the headphones blocking everything that I dint want to hear. Seeing a large crowd circled on the road, I stopped. I saw two men lying down with arms around each other’s neck, legs…
If you have a passion, follow it mercilessly. The journey to the dreams will show you the way automatically. It may sound rhetoric. A well-practiced speech. But it will not sound that way if you read the story of Vijayan, a 65-year-old wayside tea-seller owning a tiny tea shop in Kochi. He has…
“Didi. But I want to be a bad boy. I am so irritated of being a nice guy. Bad boys are cooler. And also more popular.” My thirteen year old brother said this in my appreciation of him being a nice guy and a sincere teenager. His reply came as an eye opener, something that…
Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style. – Kurt Vonnegut I started writing over a year back and if there’s one word…
‘A woman is women’s biggest enemy.’ These were the words of my political science teacher every time we talked about gender discrimination. I dint understand it back then. I dint believe it. How was that possible? It has been three years since then and time has made me think hard about this. As a young…
Why is religion such a big deal? This is a question I have often asked. A question, I have often thought about. A question, I have often debated about. A question, which intrigues me. A question to which I still haven’t got any answers. As an Atheist, living in a nation where wars have been…
Patriarchy. A system which is so strong, so powerful. A system which can be very explicit and visible on one hand and so subtle, so difficult to notice on another hand. The more I open my eyes, the more aware I become, the more I am able to see the all pervasiveness of patriarchy all around me.…
“I don’t think you fully understand the public, my friend; in this country, when something is out of order, then the quickest way to get it fixed is the best way” – Ken Kesey; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. We live in a similar society represented by the quote above. It is this society that dictates norms and urges conformity, while…
1760000 crores. This was the estimated loss to the nation in the infamous 2G coal scam. This, added with other corruption scams heated up the country’s common man who had become helpless. The public became furious. There were protests. There was the revolutionary ‘Anna Andolan’. Issues like corruption took centre stage in every conversation- in…
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