Google has content and lessons. For the rest, students need teachers. Are teachers ready to be there? Priya Gopal is an educator and explains the need for emotional pedagogy in school classrooms.
The word “learning” evokes memories of school and life lessons, but what about work, where adults spend such a large part of their days? Vani Viswanathan shares some personal learnings from working at an NGO.
Suresh Subrahmanyan attempts to arrive at some conclusions as to whether it is the performer or the divinely inspired compositions that tip the scales, one way or the other, when it comes to appreciating the relatively arcane art of Carnatic music – a quandary that has engaged the attention of music lovers over time.
‘Mother’s food’ is the most romanticised small talk topic for urban India. But behind such stories there is politics of unacknowledged domestic labour and care work. Jenny Sulfath narrates the politics of her mother’s biryani.
What do Shrek and Junagadh have in common? Layers. Beneath the dust and neglect today, lies a city with a rich tapestry of history and architecture spanning the ancient to the modern times. Priyadarshini D explores the sights and sounds of Junagadh that greeted her over one afternoon, leaving her hungry for more.
Parth Pandya, a ‘foreign return’, is befuddled with driving on Indian roads.
ARTOHUS’s article offers a kaleidoscopic view of the multifarious emotions that monsoons make us feel and our favourite Bollywood songs that help us express them.
This piece is a reflection on what the city of Chennai means to Vaishnavi. It is an attempt to capture the essence of the city as she knows it. This piece is personal; it is about her Chennai, her home: the memories evoked, the emotions elicited and what home means.
Who makes a home? When does a house become a home? And when does one truly mentally ‘move on’ from the home she grew up in, to build her own home? Vani Viswanathan ponders, but has no answers!