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Bringing social justice to our schools

November 28, 2022 10:00:27 am

Without a nurturing eco-system in our schools that questions structural inequalities and recognises diversity, the foundation of our children’s lives will remain shaky

Inviting our children to be subversive against oppressive ideas

October 31, 2022 11:00:18 am

What steps are we ready to take now that will invite children to resist arid, oppressive, dominant ideas?

Navigating our way in the age of anxiety

September 26, 2022 10:00:33 am

The art of compassionate curiosity in the face of adversity

Weathering the patriarchy storm

August 25, 2022 8:01:34 pm

Mental health struggles among women conceal issues of social injustice.

Picture Book Beats: Try looking at things from Daft Bat’s point of view!

August 16, 2022 3:17:16 pm

It’s easy to guess how the book ends; as I said at the outset, it’s a book with a rather in-your-face messaging, and not something I take to kindly in books for children.

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Picture Book Beats: ‘Always know the way home’ and other Rules of Summer

July 5, 2022 11:30:15 am

Rules of Summer is a book for children, yes, but it’s also one that roots the adults in their past and in their now. Between ‘never wait for an apology’ and ‘always know the way home’ lies the universe that some relationships traverse with ease while in which some others falter and wither away

Childhood is not a training ground for adulthood

June 27, 2022 10:30:26 am

As the philosopher Alexander Herzen said, a child’s purpose is to be a child

Fathers and the triple bottomline

June 20, 2022 12:14:27 pm

Today’s fathers actively seek to become a well-rounded influence in the lives of their children and are fully cognizant of their role in how their children are raised.

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Picture Book Beats: ‘Supposing’ tells us we are what we think

June 7, 2022 9:07:40 pm

What a powerful picture book to say in the simplest of ways what philosophers and spiritual gurus take pages to propound. That we have it in us to change the course of our thoughts.

Resisting riptides of victimisation

May 30, 2022 12:30:15 pm

The insidious social-media messaging is engineering a steady dose of language of misery in the garb of social justice and robbing people of a sense of agency in responding to life’s hardships

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Ovarian ageing: Why physiological age matters for women’s fertility

May 26, 2022 6:24:52 pm

Ovarian ageing is a fact, and it starts taking place very early in the life of a woman.

Mother’s Day: ‘Don’t call us supermoms, offer a cup of coffee instead!’

May 7, 2022 10:00:36 am

So, Mother's Day or not, we want society to know that a mom doesn't need to be a high achieving superwoman to be celebrated

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Picture Book Beats: ‘When You Look Up’ is a powerful, brilliant book about discovering ourselves through and in stories

May 2, 2022 5:52:44 pm

It’s a book about being an unafraid reader. What I ‘took away’ from it would be very different from what you may see in it. Remember, it is a book without a blurb, right?

Picture Book Beats: The Silence of the (H)Ears

April 4, 2022 8:04:36 pm

It is the marvel that picture books are, gathering the deepest life lessons within their folds in the simplest of ways. If only we care to read between the powerful lines and visuals.

Empowering the girl child: ‘Parenting requires skills and patience’

April 1, 2022 11:16:17 am

"When impressionable adolescent girls see their parents invested in their welfare and betterment, they are likely to do the same for their own daughters" said Meera Satpathy, founder of Sukarya, an NGO working to uplift and empower young women in slum communities.