All about the game of resources and identities, understanding...
Winter Is Coming, So Is Consumerism: The Connection Between Game of Thrones and Your Wallet
Game of Thrones (GoT) is a popular television series that aired on HBO from...
Understanding The Complexitites Of Labelling
In a recent group conversation, a colleague lightheartedly asked something...
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Winters Of Bihar [A Poem]
Seasons are poetic by their very nature. They try to tell us something about...
Half Half None
The following blog has been co-written by co-fellows Daraab Saleem Abbasi and...
From The Desk Of A Fellow In Limbo, With Love
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What’s On Your Mind? [A Poem]
They show me the bulging veins,On your forehead and across your...
That Feeling Of Liberation : In Kalahandi
When was the last time you felt most liberated? This question that was thrown...
Love Story: Escape – Part 1/2
“ It was in the summers, about 30 years from today. I was pretty like those girls in TV serials. We didn’t have much, but Abba and Ammi spared enough for all my brothers and sisters, every month. I remember going with Abba to the vegetable market. Fond memories,...
My Year In Poetry
The faces that came along this year I can’t believe it will soon be a year for me in Raigad. In the most nostalgic tone of Mr. Olivander of Harry Potter, “It seems only yesterday I was walking down the market, buying my first mattress”. I remember my initial days, how...
Surname, Please?
The train journey to Mangaon had worn me out. I had woken up at 5 am today, a record timing by my standards. Adding to this, the speaker on stage had been speaking in Marathi for the past twenty minutes. Due to these specific factors, my eyes steadily shut. Father...
An Atta-boy
They do not have advantage of a complicated system of metaphysics which could explain or rationalize events for them. Their gods and goodness are much too simple to be of much help. प्रिय मित्र याद है वो पुराना किस्सा? वो काशीपुर? खत के बदलो से सतह दर सतह उतरोगे तो...
A Lesson I Learnt When Teaching My Students
Being part of an education innovation which aims at changing attitude through change in content delivery. At Aavishkaar I see the social sector expanding to introduce an intellectual attitude as one of the human rights to protest for. I go to classrooms every week to...
My Story With PERIODS As A Male Staff
Image: Doing sessions and discussions with adolescent girls on Menstrual Health and Hygiene Management I am working in a community radio station - Nityananda Janavani 91.2 FM in Purulia, West Bengal. Our radio station was already making programs on lots of issues...
Achieving Eco Friendliness in a Village of Odisha – A Comic
If you want to appreciate this comic, or have questions about my reduced-waste life here with Agragamee in Odisha, please let me know in comments below.
Poverty : My 1st Lesson In The Social Sector
How long has it been since you had your last meal? 17 hours for me, out of which 13 went by sleeping in an air-conditioned compartment of a train. My head is aching and I’m sipping water slowly but here’s why I’m tolerating hunger: Can’t leave the luggage unattended...
Of Disturbing Instances, Gender Disparities And Taking Charge
It was just another day in one of the villages of South Madhya Pradesh. A colleague and I were passing through the half-broken muddy roads, to reach our destination. As part of our project, the agenda was to talk to women collectively and motivate them to save a...
The Butterfly Effect
A butterfly flutters its wings on one side of the world and causes a hurricane on the other side. This concept knows as 'The butterfly effect', which was initially used with weather predictions (Lorenz's Chaos Theory), gradually gained popularity among theorists to...
Freedom Of Expression – The Oxymoron
The idea of “Freedom of Expression” sounds so much like an oxymoron to me these days. Two contrasting ideas nestled together so beautifully. Apparently the term freedom and expression do hardly ever go together. At least in the current context of our society. The...
In Praise Of The Shower In The Night
Of the many cultural differences between my upbringing and rural parts of the north of the country, the one that I am reminded of everyday is when I have to shower in the morning; to not repel the children from the school where I work. I am obliged to keep up...
The City Of Dead Dogs And Hearts
Ages and ages before Adam Smith came up with his theory that revolutionized how humans produce things together on a mass scale through industries, and also the act of production to become super-boring for the individuals involved, humans were already using the concept...
What Is A Fair Wage?
I had an insightful conversation with our organisation’s—Innovators in Health—driver last month. He was going on a leave to finish some paperwork the next day. The High Court in Bihar had reiterated a judicial order by the Supreme Court of India with explicit...