We All Live in Bubbles

Hungry cattle of Wardha waiting to be fed. "Why are those who are feeding us dying of hunger and committing suicide?" And which role do we play in it? In May 2013, I joined SRISTI to Wardha, a district in Maharshtra, where most of India‘s farmer suicides were and maybe are still taking place....

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YOLO - Genocide in Syria

Image: www.genocideinsyria.org I wished the children depicted in this image were sleeping and could be woken up to run around and play. But that’s just wishful thinking. This photograph published by "Genocide In Syria" just popped up on my Facebook wall and though I don’t like to share pictures...

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Left right left left right left

"Do you ever have trouble telling right from left?" Probably time to check your mental faculties. The sad irony is that in today's election too many people who feel left behind and unheard voted for a party whose policy openly promotes discrimination, symptom-picking, scape-goating and baiting...

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A Matter of Conscience

Nobody had noticed it. It wasn’t that his name had popped up in the news, because he had decided to let this chalice pass by, so technically, everything had been fine, except that for those few days during which he had not acted, he had felt as if i) he was not important enough for anyone to notice...

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Creating the right impact and together!

Recently, scholars, especially Andy Hoffman at the Erb Institute - University of Michigan, have started stressing the urgent need for academic scholars and the public to engage and have an informed dialogue on globally pressing topics such as climate change. I agree. If we want to avert predicted...

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What if I got rid of every thing?

I started reading this article on things, on doorknobs, on spoons, on dust, why stop there, everything can be objectified, become a fetish, we are drowning in a world of things. Even if I had not given away all my things, I would still have a vague idea that they keep accumulating: As fast as one...

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Thinking is an art too

The Spirit of Our Time by Raoul Hausmann ...

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