Freedom is … True selfhood. The unravelling of everything we are not. No longer performing. Not a protest. A well to be drawn from. Returning to the original flame. Turning…

“Don’t dig the sharp edge of your machete in the tree trunk when you take a break. Please leave it on the ground.” I requested the workmen, who habitually rested…

To draw the picture of a tree, I need to stand back from it, look at it clearly and then depict it as I see it. To write about anything,…

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world,” James Baldwin reflected, “but then you read.” I asked about the gifts they have received…

Once upon a time I trusted my Mind and Body entirely, to carry me through every challenge. To have me secure a place in Medical School and then find a…

“In the early days after our daughter left us, I used to sit on the floor with a big white chart paper in front of me and five huge cans…

Last month, we hosted our first residential retreat on the serene and secluded Talpona beach in South Goa. Seven parents travelled from the US and the UK to India to…

There is nowhere else to go. Here, I am already where I am meant to be. I can’t rush it, push it, cut it short or bypass it. This ache.…

Photo Credit: Daniel Biber from Hilzingen, Germany.

 “I don’t want anything positive to come out of my son’s death.” He was adamant. Such a tragedy was nothing but that, an abject dark tragedy. The end of the…

A landslide of rejection letters arrived in my inbox. It had taken me only seven years to write my memoir that will not sell, they said. Only celebrity memoirs sell,…

(Courtesy: https://intentionalpeersupport.org) “What I love about the heart is that it’s capable of breaking in infinite ways; may we never live long enough to experience all of them, but may…

The trunk of the big Sacred Fig tree stands still while its branches and leaves dance in the strong breeze. Is it really still? Food and water from the soil…

Somebody to Nobody to Everybody Before my son was born, I felt like I was somebody. Somebody of significance. A young doctor with dreams. When he came along, I became…

Searching Greens Blue + Yellow = Green. Primary school stuff. I am no painter but recently YouTube prompted me, “Open your box of water colours and check it out. Create…

“Will I get through my To-do list today?” For years, I woke up to the cacophony of an alarm clock, my heart racing in response to this inane question, a…

What if I said them to myself? I am here for you. I will not let you down. I am sorry you’re hurting so much. Even though, sometimes you go…

‘I was sent away to live with my grandma when my youngest sister was to be born. I was three and a half then. I stayed with my grandma till…

To bear witness is to see something happen.   It sounds like an inert and passive process but it has the potential to transform lives. Even though witnessing does not seem…