Month: January 2022

  • On Airports

    The moment one steps inside the airport, the rest of the planet might as well fold itself up till its curb. They are a coagulated bundle of all human emotions stripped down to their raw form, in a finite and interchangeable space.

  • Alma Mater Matters

    I wonder what gives us our nostalgia for the institutions that brainwash us… A Christian missionary primary school in Amravati, where I studied till standard sixth, was my introduction to the term Alma Mater. There was a song or a prayer that we used to sing in the morning assembly which eulogized the school. ‘An Ode to Alma Mater’ or…

  • Fire in the Mountain, Run, Run, Run!

    The world won’t end all at once, but a thousand houses at a time. All we can do is prepare.