drawing to a close

The term has now ended. Officially. Tomorrow my parents will come to Brighton and we will spend a couple of days together, talking, walking, looking, eating, laughing and connecting. After that, I will be heading to London where I will, with fingers crossed, successfully brave the process of getting my new work visa for India. [...]

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Fragmentation and Healing

N.B. This piece has been taken from my reflective writing journal and should be understood as tentative and incomplete
It seems that we are all here in order to make sense of things. We look into books, we look into each other, searching for what is out there, what is right – and maybe [...]

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Future Uncertain 2

After many months I made a return visit to www.opendemocracy.net and read this, an article by Paul Rogers presenting two scenarios for 2020.
The first is based on a business-as-usual kind of a story. To read it is to wonder whether bringing children into this world is the right thing to do. It is so horrific [...]

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Back in England… Future Uncertain

It’s been a while since I last put a post up and this lull has coincided with my transition back to England. Amazingly, after two years at a stretch in India, I have not had any adjustment issues (at least, nothing serious). I have been gorging on my mum’s fantastic food, propounding my theories about [...]

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What we’re about

All we propose, in return, is that you care for each other, help each other, treat each other with respect and dignity, work and play together and take your future and your children’s future into your own hands and do your best to make existence into the most wholesome, meaningful experience possible for everyone.
Get it?

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levers

While the old saying – there is no ‘magic lever’ – does seem to hold true at some level, I have come to look at things a little differently. My current sense is that:
Everything is a lever if you look at it the right way!
All this is really saying is that every situation contains a [...]

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blind spots and collective evolution

A number of conversations and random readings over the last few days have really re-sensitised me to the need to understand the issues surrounding resistance to change… One idea that keeps on floating back is that change often seems to happen in spite of all the things that organisations do to prevent it. Change is [...]

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Trying to get some bearings…

It’s been a while since I managed to get back to the blog and I have a lot to say. At the same time, I really want to learn how to say whatever I am trying to say in less space. One approach could be to use several smaller blog postings (to create the illusion [...]

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Wisdom in the Rickshaw

While I was on my way to visit a friend in Delhi after a conference on Citizenship and Governance (organised by PRIA), I found myself on a rather long rickshaw ride. I decided to start up some casual banter with the driver, an old man from a village in Uttar Pradesh. After some small talk [...]

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