Narm Lahja
20 August 2003
If your desire is to dominate, then the soft tones might look good, but they are links of the same chain
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Look Before You Strike
30 September 2008
A reflection on violence, anger, separateness and the moral state preceding action.
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Meri Dhadkan Kii Sadaa
28 March 2009
The sound of my heart-beat arises close to you, Every one of my joys seeks you for completion
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Daraz Zulfon Ke Saaye
28 August 2009
May the shadows of long tresses linger wherever they fall, May the splendours of your beauty keep enchanting the heart.
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Listen to My Heart
29 June 2010
On listening, intimacy and the difference between asking someone to listen to their own heart and inviting them to listen to mine.
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A Movable Feast
5 October 2010
A questioning of what “child-centred education” means when it is translated from an idea into the actual relationship between teacher and child.
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Age-appropriate is Inappropriate
28 October 2010
An older educational argument brought into conversation with the present.
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When Words Wound
10 November 2010
A reflection on free speech, hurtful speech and the different ways in which words and physical violence can wound.
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Ahsaase Ulfat
25 January 2011
Why does the flowing-together of our hearts seem like a miracle to you? It is your nature for it to be so, so why are you afraid to live life fully?
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Social Change and Child-centric Practice
5 October 2011
On education as a form of social change, and on the relationship between children, teachers, community and practice.
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Who Sold My Silence
19 January 2012
On the disappearance of silence and the changes in place, community and belonging that accompany rapid urban development.
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Salamath Again
20 February 2012
A reflection on memory, friendship and the fragile continuities of everyday life in Kashmir.
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At Harvard
29 March 2012
A reflection on what education is for, and on attention, self-learning, community and technology.
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Tangles Untangle
31 January 2013
A short reflection on uncertainty, grace and the desire for structure.
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Aaj Dekha Hai
25 August 2013
To see you today has been to experience spring, It has brought pain and suffering, yet made the night beautiful
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Towards a Coherent Vision of Education
19 October 2013
On the need to think about education as a coherent system rather than as a collection of separate interventions.
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Ultii Ho Gayiin
28 July 2014
He is a murderer and an oppressor, but not a transgressor in your eyes, What trust can I have in you, O law of the land
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Regulating Itself
29 September 2014
On the relationship between government, regulation and responsibility in education.
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Colonising Our Own
25 March 2015
A reflection rooted in the 2015 land-acquisition debate, with a larger question about development, power and citizenship.
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Tending the Flowers
6 May 2015
A reflection on community action and early childhood through the experience of the Fulwari initiative.
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Gham Khushi Donon Se Bezaar Hue Jaate Hain
15 September 2015
Joy and sorrow are no longer anchors of my experience, I now exist in a state of surrender and faith
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Thinking Strategically
17 September 2015
On strategy, time, capacity and the difficulty of producing meaningful systemic change.
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Proselytisation Posing as Policy
3 October 2016
A reflection on education, nation-building and the temptation to shape children around predetermined ideas.
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The Century of Shifting Sands
3 October 2017
On technological and social change, uncertainty and what these changes ask of education and institutions.
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Bring Them Home
14 April 2020
Written during the COVID-19 lockdown, reflecting on migrant workers, home, dignity and the social consequences of the crisis.
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India’s NEP 2020 – Not Paying Attention
23 October 2020
A reflection on what the pandemic revealed about institutionalisation, urbanisation, globalisation and education.
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Letting the Pandemic Educate Us
5 December 2020
An attempt to ask what the pandemic might teach us about education, institutions, urbanisation and the assumptions underlying our systems.
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Tujh Se Kisne Yeh Kahaa Hai
13 May 2022
Who has told you that the spring has not yet arrived, That the flowers aren’t fragrant, that sight has not been blessed by the Sun and the Moon
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