Certain words in the English vocabulary transcend the importance of being emphasised upon. They encompass, within their few letters, such depth and significance, that their explanations suffer from the want of more. Any task, be it as simple and seemingly insignificant as pouring tea leaves from a packet into the jar, calls for sincerity and seriousness, to the extent that…
Have you ever called your teachers, names? Have you not spoken ill behind their backs? Surely, you have. Technically, most of us have. It’s only human to catch hold of the first stimuli and react to it, but it is also humane to wait for the right stimuli and respond to it! But I guess we’re more of humans than…
Unlike most kids, ever since childhood I was thrilled with the idea of living away from family. I remember asking my mom to send me off to a boarding school. Not sure what had triggered such discomfort in being around them. Maybe being forced to talk, smile, be the kid you've been asked to be. I have always been a…
Your first is mother and your last is the pyre. To define a teacher merely within the confines of a living being is a fallacy. To accept the presence of a teacher or a lesson in every breath and walk of life, is the most beautiful part of living. It opens your mind up to the virtues of humility and…
Yesterday I could have died. And yet here I am, more alive than ever before. It is, however, a very strange feeling to walk down the streets knowing that I might not be here tomorrow. I am looking at people and watching them interact. I look around myself and observe the nature, the buildings surrounding me and the streets I…
Before every exam, every test, every student already carries a question with them, one which stirs a mortal dread in their hearts — what if today’s test contains a question from outside of the syllabus? We aren’t taught to tackle such questions that fall out of the pattern of examining. We aren’t taught to tackle questions which do not align with propriety.…
When Deepak, with his characteristic inquisitiveness, asked me about the things I've learned in my life, it got me thinking. As I looked back and hard at the 62 years that I've lived, it felt as if everything that happened was pre-ordained and that I was just a participant all along, thrown in with various factors, people and circumstances which…
‘Every season in the hills has an essence of its own, one as beautiful as the other', I remember our porter saying, as he hauled our luggage off the sidewalk of Gangtok's tidy Mall Road. Monsoon was slowly descending upon the land of Sikkim, making its way up from the South. Our arrival was veiled in a haze of white,…
“Growing up, I would be a big people-pleaser. I would just want to do a good job, cause no harm and make sure everyone’s happy. The one learning that took me quite some time to adjust to was, you cannot make everyone happy, even if you are doing the most right thing in the world”—shared Deepak, in the third episode…
“You are only as weak as your strongest link; this is only half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link”: Khalil Gibran.
