A cure for childhood! “Anarko ke aath din”, The Eight Days of Anarko By Satyu is a delightful tale of eight days in a young girl Anarko’s life. Sprightly and imaginative, Anarko often transcends her surroundings to build another world in which doctors become patients and teachers become students and face the sort of treatment... Continue Reading →
On this day, we wish to celebrate freedom, dignity and equality for all Indian children. Namaste' from Pushkar. This young man who is reputed to be the city's most good-looking chai (and other goods) salesman, sends his greetings. Picture credits: Pooja Bhargava
By Nikita Aggarwal (Supervisor: Vinita Bhargava) Picture credit: Picture meant for representation only, open source www All masters’ students of our Department[1] must complete a research dissertation as part of their coursework. Adoption was my area of interest, I was curious about the different voices regarding this issue, the different perspectives. Given the prevalence of... Continue Reading →
By Anubha Rawat I turned one year old a few months ago, a major milestone. We also celebrated my daughter’s first birthday at the same time. Turning one is such a huge developmental marker for babies that reams has been researched, written and documented about each developmental stage. However, it’s harder to find something about... Continue Reading →
What we remember of our early childhood is most likely a compilation of other people's accounts of our experiences and not direct remembering, recent studies have demonstrated. This is quite similar to our findings from 'Memories of Me', that we (Carolin Demuth, Heidi Keller and Nandita Chaudhary) published in IPBS (Integrated Psychological and Behavioural Sciences)... Continue Reading →
*Short posts for in-between Fridays for our readers. Bedtime rituals by Pooja Bhargava Bedtime rituals are sacred for us. After a usual day at our respective workplaces, this wind-down time is also an opportunity to catch up about the events of the day, and also simply to spend time together. The child who is quicker... Continue Reading →
Previously on Masala Chai, we brought Sameer's story to you. In case you've missed these, the links are: https://masalachaimusings.com/2018/06/15/life-can-only-be-understood-backwards https://masalachaimusings.com/2018/06/29/life-can-only-be-understood-backwards-2 Today we bring you the third and last post in the series from Sameer where he reaches back into the deep recesses of his past. “You look like Mandakhini” Sameer continues...........“There was an incident that... Continue Reading →
“‘Think about this, THINK, think again. Because if you withdraw today, you will never have the courage for this sort of thing again, think carefully’, I repeated to myself over and over again.” In the last blogpost, we brought you the story of young Sameer as he pulls himself out of a difficult situation and... Continue Reading →
‘Life can only be understood backwards; it must be lived forwards’, Kierkegaard reminded us. It is in the worlds of stories that we are free to move back and forth, travelling through time, space and personhood. We can learn a lot from the lives of others, real or fictional. This is the primary purpose of... Continue Reading →
