I was fine. I had my habits, my haunts, my tastes, my decor, my food, even my tangle of exercise equipment on the living room floor. There was order. The boat of my life sailed on an even keel, same routines and rhythm. There was something to be said for the comfort […]
Imagine a young college graduate who has volunteered as a teacher in an extremely poor school in urban Mumbai. She is trying to inspire precocious 10-year olds with stories of leaders from their country’s great history. She decides to teach lessons on Gandhi – the non-violent Mahatma. The children had just come out of […]
“This is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. Some people have strange ideas that they live by money. They think energy is generated by the circulation of coins. Whereas the world is mainly a vast leaf colony, growing on and forming a […]