truthandhope

The intersection of agency and community

The last year of my career has been a conscious exploration of the magic that happens when individual agency and community intersect. Through many failures and some successes in my earlier 6 years in education, I had started to suspect that the impact that I…

What a group of 14 year old girls taught me

I volunteer with a group of girls in a low-income community in Bangalore. Yesterday, I saw them after a long summer break when they had all gone to their homes, mostly villages in different corners of India (Bangalore's slums are mostly inhabited by…

Gift from a friend

I have a friend from my B-school days. She and I are the kind of friends who have zero expectations from each other but just hold a lot of love for each other in our hearts. We speak very rarely, sometimes we don’t speak for months or years but whenever we do, the conversation is a healing…

Sounds Of My Childhood

Today, I am thinking of the power of sounds and the significance they hold for us, especially in memories.

Gifts from my ancestors

This morning, I am thinking of the several lessons that I have learnt from my family. Ours is not a family where…

My Heartsong

I was made of the soil and the sky

And of the taste of needless blood

I was made of happy, salty tears

And a sense of never being enough