Family Corner

Death as Meaning‍

Prema Jayakumar A dear and much younger friend died recently, prompting this meditation on what death means. I don’t mean any of those questions that mankind have asked themselves and to which religions have tried to give answers: whether there is life after death, whether death is the end, whethe

Living in Echo Chambers

Prema Jayakumar Recently, in a speech, the well-known musician Sri T.M.Krishna spoke about the experience of singing on the beach, before an audience of fishermen who did not know anything about classical Carnatic music. He was saying how uncomfortable he found it, though he had opted to do it as an experiment. Obviously, classical music […]

Being Gadget Savvy

Vijitha Seabstian Adappoor Winding up the academic session every year is always filled with myriad activities- the main being the finalizing and declaration of the results. There is also a streamline of anxious parents waiting to load up recommendations from the higher ups so that their wards can be catapulted to the next level on […]

Servent Leadership

Rose Mary I, your Lord and Teacher, have just washed your feet. You then should wash one another’s feet -John 13:14 It was one pm by the time I reached Daisy’s beauty parlour for my regular haircut. As I stepped in, I found the place unusually empty. I could hear the strains of conversation from […]

Protection/ Restriction

Since when did we become so afraid of our surroundings, so intolerant of the slightest inconvenience of temperature or dust or moisture, that we have started shutting ourselves away from the world? When did air-conditioning become so ubiquitous? If you have ever longed for some fresh air even if it does not smell very good […]

Forgive- but not Forget?

Rosemary Love keeps no record of wrongs (1 Corinthians 13:5) Many of us would recall the stirring speech given by Shashi Tharoor at the Oxford Union in 2015, where he had lashed out at the British recounting the atrocities they had committed against the Indians, refreshing, fading memories of a colonial rule that we had […]

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