Dear All, Thank you so much for writing in and continuing to visit our blog. These last several weeks have been challenging to say the least and we really appreciate your messages. Our team met virtually and we resolved to get back on track despite the challenges. I must admit that emerging from this shutdown […]
Dear Readers, I fear that we have neither the knowledge nor the wisdom to comment on the current situation; or the capacity to disregard the current health crisis and go on with business as usual. In the time we get outside of additional lockdown related tasks, our minds are completely occupied with trying to make […]
Hello ! Preparing our posts is taking a bit longer than usual. Please stay tuned to our blog for an upcoming essay in the next week. For today we are leaving you with this thought.
Part 2 of our review of the Netflix documentary series ‘Babies’ The is the second in the two-part review of the series ‘Babies’. In this post, we examine some scientific claims and ethical concerns related to research with children and their families by taking the first episode on ‘Love’. You can revisit our previous post […]
With the buzz around us about the closure of playschools, and concerns about how to keep children ‘entertained and occupied’ we thought this video would provide some inspiration. 🥰 Thanks to Deepa Chawla for the video fresh from the field. Taken somewhere in rural northern india 17th March, 2020.
Dear readers, we had planned on posting the second review of the Netflix documentary Babies titled “Love in the time of Infancy”, but plans changed. We became a little fatigued with viewing MRI scans and hearing about Oxytocin levels as “evidence for the existence of love” between babies and parents, and the essay is as […]
A Review of the Netflix Documentary Series ‘Babies’ Part 1: Introduction and overview At the outset let me declare that a detailed review of ‘Babies’ will cover more than one essay because there is just so much to write. A single post would be fatiguing to read through, and I want to keep focus on […]
Jokes children tell Humour is deeply cultural and it relates to the ways in which we learn to understand comedy. A great deal of shared cultural knowledge is required to grasp the meaning of jokes. Apart from cultural patterns, there are important differences in what is seen as funny at different ages. Whereas a baby […]
In todays cutting chai we bring to you one of our favourite characters Calvin and Hobbes. Cartoonist Bill Watterson created incorrigible Calvin and his teddy friend Hobbes who often comes alive on Calvin’s adventures in 1985. Since then Calvin and Hobbes has given us plenty laughters, giggles and moments to introspect and reflect. There are […]
The place of artistic expression in young children’s lives Reshu’s little niece is almost five. She has a strong sense of what she likes and is particularly creative with sketching. She is the younger of two sisters and displays a fiercely independent sense of her five-year old self. Reshu lives nearby with her own daughter […]
When and how should young children be permitted to handle cash? Is it even necessary anymore? This question is not easy to answer, and we had a hard time constructing today’s essay around this question. As concerned adults, we often struggle with the sequence and pace of bringing the outside world into children’s lives, sometimes delaying or even denying the entry of unfavourable events or difficult themes. This also raises concerns about overprotection and isolation, the consequences of which can be equally frightening. One important decision relates to handling cash, and children can learn a lot from the ways in which money is used around them. As our economies move further away from direct cash exchanges, conversations about money and related process like profit, loss, value and probability are also affected. In this post, we invite you to a discussion around an observation Vishwas Raj made during our Himalayan Chai project, and welcome your comments regarding card-games and young children.
Fungibility is defined as the property of a commodity, the components of which are essentially interchangeable. Although the term is most used in the fields of economics and engineering, it has recently become a personal favourite for many reasons. An important one is its possible applicability to human relationships. In this essay, I use it to discuss a quality of mothering.
MASALA CHAI 