We need to learn to love again

There is story that Rabindranath Tagore had written called Parrot’s Training. In ‘The Parrot’s Training’, we are told of a golden cage that is built to imprison a wild and uncivilized parrot so that she could be properly educated. In addition to the usual school curriculum, she was also expected to learn to listen and …

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I will gather my children and tell them…

By Adebayo C. Akomolafe (slightly modified) I will gather my children close and tell them a story; I will whisper to them a tale under the nodding approval of many moons: I will stare into their starry eyes, and tell them that the world is intensely abundant - so utterly full of everything we need, …

Soap bubbles

From years of study and of contemplationAn old man brews a work of clarity,A gay and convoluted dissertationDiscoursing on sweet wisdom playfully.An eager student bent on storming heightsHas delved in archives and in libraries,But adds the touch of genius when he writesA first book full of deepest subtleties.A boy, with bowl and straw, sits and …

Children are like trees

A few years ago, I was volunteering at a small Tibetan residential school in Himachal. Here I met Kalden and Choden, both from the same section of class 8. Kalden, a little stout fellow was always dressed shabbily, with at least two buttons of his shirt broken and shoes full of dust. He was from …

Each basket is unique

Compiled by Amit Deshwal When work moved from farm to city, from land to concrete, from hands to machine—in short, when the industrial revolution redefined the meaning of work for us—much was lost. Perhaps the greatest loss was the sense of cosmic wonder of interrelationship with the universe, with nature, with the stars and breezes and plants and animals that was …

Tanika and the Muavo tree

by Grace Llewellyn, How to quit school and get a real life and education ON A SOFT green planet, a smiling baby was born in an orchard resplendent with every kind of fruit in the universe. The baby’s parents called her Tanika, and Tanika spent her days roaming the warm wet ground on hands and knees. …

A young girl on who inspires her

By Amit Deshwal Had written this in September 2011, when I was volunteering with a small Tibetan school. This is about two little children studying in the same school. The boy has become a close friend of mine. We generally go around together talking about various things. I did not what was it that had …