Soviet Hospitality Part1

This is the beginning of a very belated diary. I’d been invited many years ago to stay with friends in the Soviet Union. It took a lot of arranging as my mother lived with me and did not approve. But in the end I went and this describes the first section. Sorry about unexplained Russian and my typos. I don’t […]

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No Man’s Land

Two things to immediately address… you are not, In any way, shape or form, my priority or responsibility anymore You’ve taught me two more things to add to that: Loving you was a mistake And two, begging to come back to you, even after you give up the game for me I don’t want nothing from you right now You’re […]

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Red light
Picked

Sujata, like any other child, wanted to study. She was admitted to a good vernacular medium school far away from her neighborhood.  Initially she had many friends. She was good at studies, but as time went by she discovered herself as a flutist. Slowly, she became very lonely, this flute became her only company. She stood like Krishna and practised […]

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Free Barbie

What do you think of me huh?  A puppet, a doll?  Or even worse, a ping-pong ball? Barbie was disappointed with her parents. Her mother Piya, one fine morning, just went absconding… until, two days later, later she was found safe in her grandpa’s place.  Domestic violence? Yes she agrees, but who would abandon her only child to seek refuge […]

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Brazil burning

Brazil burning. Rainforest on fire. Blaming has started. It means the problem is here to stay, according to Peter Senge, a renowned systems thinker. Drawing a problem-map involving all stakeholders can help us have a bird’s eye view. Those who’re cutting trees to earn a living are successfully selling the products to the buyers. We need to show an alternative […]

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