Connecting Art to Life
Original thought: Marathi Story of Jungle I have been thinking about penning down my thoughts about forest. Well, I haven’t been able to do so. There’s a simple reason for this. I just don’t know where to start and what all to include. So, I thought let’s do something that I do not do …
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Original thought: English Lift up, not shove down! When I look around the generation I am teaching today, I feel disheartened. I feel sad that we have let them believe that they need to compete and be the fittest to survive. Don’t get me wrong. I am not against the survival or the drive to …
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Original thought: English Time Today, we celebrate the beginning of the new year. In all other ways, it’s the same mundane Sunday. A Sunday brings joy to the children and loads of pending work to the adults. Nothing has changed there except for those who are vacationing. The biggest change is the end of the …
Original thought: English In line with my earlier article, “burning the midnight oil,” let’s talk about load-shedding. I hope you are not aware of the concept. Now, why would I say that? That’s because load shading is when electric supply is cut for a few hours so that the overall load could be managed. In …
Original thought: English The Breadwinner and A Thousand Splendid Suns Today, I am going to discuss something that shocked me as a person. A while back, when I was a student, I read the book “A Thousand Splendid Suns.” It was a book that explained the plight of women before and after the Mujahidin and …
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मूल विचार: हिन्दी मुंबई: सार्वजनिक आवागमन सेवाएं ए दिल हैं मुश्किल जीना यहाँ, जरा बचके जरा हटके, ये हैं मुंबई मेरी जान बहुत दिन हो गए जब घर में एक टीवी था और उसपर सिर्फ २ चैनल दिखते। एक डीडी वन और दूसरा डीडी टू। डीडी वन था नैशनल चैनल और डीडी टू उसीका प्रादेशिक …
Original thought: English The story and the report The report When WAF team, that is, Okazusan and Akkosan visited Matho Village, Ladakh in 2022, a lot had changed. Though the teachers there were teaching in the rooms which had paintings from the Earth Art Project 2016, they did not know anything about it. Some of …
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Original thought: English The story and the report The story Let’s start with the story of why I want to write this. We (I, Okazusan, and Akkosan) were having a nice chai-time in a café at Colaba, Mumbai, India. I had just gotten married and was moving to a town place a little away from …
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Original thought: English Burning the midnight oil! Long ago, when I read this term in some classical English novel, I actually was thinking how can one burn the midnight. Then, I thought about the times the novel was written in, and yet again dawned the realization that literature and history share a deeper bond than …
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Original thought: Marathi The fear never ceases to exist Now, we are slowly and gradually coming out of the catastrophe of COVID-19. But have we really forgotten all about it? We need to answer this question atleast to ourselves. Humanity has always, irrespective of time, place, and people, been facing some or the other kind …
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