Panther Medicine: A True Fable

Panther Medicine: A True Fable

My best friend’s cousin, M, kept a pet panther in her apartment in South Bombay’s very posh Marine Drive neighbourhood. The panther was a baby when M’s brother brought it to Bombay — an orphan he’d found shivering in the bushes near a tea plantation in Assam. M...
The Art of Homecoming

The Art of Homecoming

Art is made by choosing a set of constraints, using them to create a boundary, and then building a world inside it. With words or paint, metal or wood, musical instrument or food — whatever your art, it is a collaboration between you, the medium you work with,...
Desire, Trust, & The Game of Life

Desire, Trust, & The Game of Life

You can view any creation through a variety of lenses. For today, consider the unfolding pattern of your life through the lens of a game. Every game has rules that define it, that articulate the boundaries and limits within which the game is played, and the rules of...
Covid-19 & the Remaking of Our World

Covid-19 & the Remaking of Our World

We share this planet with an estimated 8.7 million other species, most of which we haven’t yet identified, the bulk of them microscopic in scale — including bacteria, viruses, and protozoa, among others. Viruses are different from all other species of life...
On Marketing Lifestyle Brands

On Marketing Lifestyle Brands

As women, if we don’t take our desires, our dreams, our work, our art, our gifts seriously, then neither will the rest of the world. Instead of focusing on creating, on making what we’re called to make with all our skill and heart, we’re urged to turn our energies to...