I couldn’t believe my ears when I heard village children talk of coronavirus while waiting for the school to open on a Monday morning (March 16, 2020). I knew about the disease from phone calls with my family in Europe and, honestly, I felt safe in a remote Sundarbans village in West Benga...
9 a.m. in Purba Chintamonipur, Sunderbans. Piti has just come home from his morning tuition and before it is time to get dressed for school, he slides through the hole in the fence and runs towards my hut with a beaming face. Reaching my veranda, he slows down and takes off his rubber slippers.“He...
How can we move towards realising more desirable futures? This and other burning questions regarding society, religion and politics were discussed in 40 events that brought together leading figures from the world of academia, art, and culture in the Humanities Festival that was recently concluded in...
...............contd. from previous issueWe live disconnected from our source and when we get sick, we run to a doctor prescribing allopathic medicine. Chemical substances in tablets, substances isolated and disconnected from their natural source!I met a village woman who walked more than an hour to...
