A humming word

Imagine these teachers in a staff room of a school in Hyderabad.  1. Aamir Khan, an Arts Teachers, who is scouting for lovers of Art 2. Rani Mukherjee, who teaches Math and Science but has a Tourette's Syndrome and  3. RajKumar Rao, a PTI teacher, basking in the glory of his success in his school at Haryana Aamir will focus on the lack of focus on Arts in the School. Having identified Darsheel, he now wants to create an impact in this school. Rani Mukherjee wants to focus on the inability of students who can pay and is out there pooling in people. Already her students have created a Fan page for her and now, they want her to go out there and involve as many students as possible.  While Rani and Aamir are working on their ideas, RajKumar Rao is struggling to live up to his reputation that he has created in his school in Haryana. The students here are tough nuts. Their parents want them to study hard too. But more importantly, there are no guava fields or Cow Dung cakes to ...

Often the deepest friendships are formed when you are a child. But busting myths is the right of every individual. And, we have done it too.  Met at a workshop, Divya Murarka, is a friend and a sister, now. Over the past two years I have learnt to understand her and myself, through her.  She befriended me at a very different stage in my life. In 2019, I returned to India from the US to take up a job and pursue life again and that's when I met Divya at British Library. A starry-eyed woman with a manuscript written for parents and a hope that the MS document would turn into a book with a beautiful cover and a spine. It was February 2019. While I promised to edit it, I was still unsure.  Her confidence stirred into me and I began editing on my way to work, every day. I found beauty, honesty, truth and more importantly, a purpose in her writing. While the book, like Hyderabadi Haleem, was taking its own sweet time, Divya and I met for Sphagetti, Coffee, chai and spoke about a...