Travelling by the KSRTC Rajhansa I heard a language I had not heard in years, familiar, yet unfamiliar one got the drift of the language it was Byaari the language of the local Muslims. Which my friends Shameem and Naseem spoke. And it was being aired on the community radio. The young twenty something kid …
The Community Garden at Taleigao
It is such a pleasure to sink one’s hands into the warm earth to feel at one’s finger tips the possibilities of the new seasons. Growing up in rural west coast, between fields and kitchen gardens we pottered around, it helped us connect and the single greatest lesson that we learnt was that our relationship …
Quest for my Tribe- before internet
It is almost 15 years since I discovered cyberspace, a wonder world, were I could travel my economic, family, constrains didn’t exist. About 10yrs back I moved in, and now I am a netizen, its great here, we get to live inside where the weather is always awesome. Before the internet, I did not fit, …
Creating a community with Links that Last.
For the past few days I have been viewing Savdhan India that repeatedly telecast. On hand awareness is good and self protection is important. On the other hand it is also poisoning the family, community and interpersonal trust. Community is an important part of receiving the support we need to navigate through life. One marvellous …
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Feeling lonely – an incomplete understanding.
Feeling lonely – an incomplete understanding. Conversations with God is a turn point book in my life. Where the author talks of souls being from the same fabric. And he actually likens it to the aroma of onions being fired in a room and the aroma diluting as it wafts away from the room. Sometimes …
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Community
As I was doing landmark curriculum for living, one thing that we did at the last stage was going into the community. We are so caught up in our personal lives that we forget that we have an obligation to be responsible members of our communities. There are people for whom expressing this responsibility is …