What kind of font a lover-to-be, can be?
If not tenderly cursive, rusticly bold or frighteningly upright?
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Carpe Diem , O Captain, My Captain
” I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.” Asked John Keating. Headmaster Nolan replied,”At these boys’age? Not on your life!” How many of you remember this contrasting ideology exchange between the high school English teacher John Keating, Robin Williams character on use of unconventional methods of teaching for teenagers and headmaster Nolan rooting for rote learning in the 1989 American movie “Dead Poets Society”? Have you come across teachers like John Keating, during your academic years or of your children, who can think outside the box? John Keating tells his students in his first class in “Dead Poets Society” , you have two options – Call me Mr. Keating or say « O Captain, My Captain ». This is how he introduces his enthusiastic class of 17…
Bombay Duck
Few months back, at a Madh Island hotel, walking around the periphery of the back lawns opening to the vast sea, I could not help but witness fishes flying over the barbed boundary wall on to the green pathways, some withering on muddy path without water, others already dead, discarded by the volatile sea waves….
Co dependence
Meet people but don’t fall in love. Fall in love but don’t drift apart. Drift apart but don’t burn bridges. burn bridges but don’t stay too apart. Grow roots. Become root bridges. Interwoven. Intricate. Co-dependent. Fell in. Fell out. Fell out. Fell in. Now, entangled.
Books that made me a better parent in the year 2017
Last week of the year. I was reminiscing about the books read in the year 2017. In a year-end wrap-up, today, I will reflect upon the books that entered the hidden crevices of parenting styles, helped me turn inward, to introspect and reflect upon the finer nuances of conscious and compassionate parenting, that all parents…
Ten in the new teen!
We have a Netflix date due now and the boy wants to watch RichieRich. This is in retrospect to the movie date with the Teenager over the weekend. Balances of life. A mother can’t afford to let the scale tilt heavier on either side.
Raising The Millennials
Last week, a thought provoking discussion on “Raising The Millennials ” organised by Jindal University and Young Ficci Ladies Organisation{YFLO}, Delhi at The Lalit, New Delhi on 27th October 2017 opened the forum on insights and possible solutions on raising the Millennials by parents, educators and the socio-economic-political environment.
The Curse of Trishanku
Do you know the origin, genesis,the lineage of “The Great Middle Class”? The one who scrapes thru 20 days a month,lives on debts for 10,till fickle salary drips into the bank. Pays debts,buys ration, cuts an EMI cheque for a house tinier than an MP’s guard box, outside the tony New Delhi bent. The one who…
#MeToo
#MeToo. Pushed, touched, slurred at, cajoled, bribed, leered at, groped, abused, felt up, down, pinched, threatened, stalked, pounced upon. At 7, at 37. As a child, as a woman. In a crowd, in Isolation. By strange hands, by familiar eyes. Speak up. Vent out. It was always ” Them”, not ever, never us. Being a woman…
Gee 