commitment

Commitment is a 12 year old who has never missed a day of school. A child in Class 7, who has not missed a single day of school in the past 7 years. I cannot begin to imagine that. I do not know anyone who has not missed a single day of school, probably even in…

Topping up…

We take it for granted that if we don't eat for a while, we will get hungry. And that without sleep, we will get sleepy. If we don't recharge our phones, we run out of balance. It's pretty obvious, right! And yet, I so often forget that it applies as much to the non-physical things in life.…

Be careful what you wish for…

Christmas holidays should have ended today. I should have been back in Mumbai and in school. It had been a fun week in Udaipur, and yesterday, I was not wanting to go back at all. And my wish has come true. But at a cost. I've got a probably torn ligament, and I'm stuck in…

No longer a prison. For now at least.

"for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so" Hamlet, Act II Scene 2  The first two days have been an easy re-introduction. I feel like the dread may have been a good thing. There has been much less carnage and much more productivity. Admittedly, that is because I had 6…

“The Writers of Dharavi Transit Camp”

“You can make anything by writing.” C.S. Lewis Introducing the Writers of Dharavi Transit Camp My kids don't like writing, and this blog is one way of making them do it. But it's only going to work if they feel like the world is reading their work. And so I'm going to ask you incredibly…