“Was he an animal, that music could move him so?” — Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis Change is the only constant thing in this universe. Yet, when it actually shows up, it rarely feels as predictable as the saying suggests. It feels more like stepping into a version of your life that looks familiar from the outside but feels entirely different once you’re standing in it. Moving from a boarding school to a day school was that kind of transformation for me. In boarding school, li

Hello everyone! Today, I'm here to talk about why real learning doesn't happen in the classroom. Don't get me wrong, classrooms are great. They teach us important things like how to stay awake with our eyes open or how to copy homework at the speed of light 5 minutes before class. But real learning? Happens outside. Like when you try cooking Maggi for the first time and manage to burn your hands. That's life skills. Or when your Wi-Fi stops working and suddenly, you become an

Coming from a rural background, I want to talk about ‘How to Impress Your Parents?’. Let's start with the 70s-80s when parents used to send their sons for physical labour and daughters to fetch water from a nearby well which is at least 500 km away from the village. The children obeyed them so they could escape from getting caned. Whenever their children do their tasks well, they go like ‘’Oh My God!” like they have just discovered Newton's Sixth Law Of Motion. Now back to ou