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This was my India

06/05/2021by thelongview 10 Comments

This second wave was supposed to be over by now. Instead, it’s getting worse, and worse still is predicted. Sad, sad, sad. And scary. I feel the inadequacy of words […]

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City life, India, Music, Pandemic, People, Unity in diversity

Duranceville

27/04/2021by thelongview Leave a comment

We are in the city and going into lockdown. The word that pops into my head all the time is “Duranceville”. I have no idea where I first met the […]

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City life, Words

Earth Day song: Make the planet bloom again

22/04/2021by thelongview 6 Comments

A year ago, when the first Covid wave hit us, people were all going on about how nature was retaliating, and how humans were going to learn not to abuse […]

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City life, Earth, Environment, Plastic-free, Song

Hum ek hain

31/01/2020by thelongview 2 Comments

This is old news now, but I’ve had no time to post. In my recent Bangalore stint (or shall I say stink, both are equally appropriate), I got mixed up […]

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Animals, City life, Humanity, Life lessons

Is scale all- important?

30/07/2019by thelongview 9 Comments

I’ve talked before, in my post on Green Warriors, of the loneliness of trying to do the right thing on your own. In an effort to scale up a little, […]

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City life, Education, Environment, Plastic-free

Gandhiji and the gym

22/09/2018by thelongview 11 Comments

Like most Indians growing up in the 60s, I was taken to see and cry buckets over ‘Satyameva Jayate’, a movie which ended with the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. I […]

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City life, Gardening, Housekeeping chores

Where’s the joy?

02/07/2018by thelongview 14 Comments

From June to August end my husband has agreed to teach a course at his old institute. In our thirty-five years of married life, we have always functioned as a […]

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City life, Earth, Farming, Nature, Village life

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