The year that taught us kindness, connections and gratitude
Returning to a classroom of young adults, I learnt that the gentler I am with my students, the more I learn how to connect deeper with my children.
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Editor's note: As I got into the car and began the commute back home on the Eastern Peripheral Highway, I received a text from my husband. “How did it go?” “It was cool,” I texted back. “I don’t think they fell in love with me.” “Bhala ho,” he wrote. “varna mere liye pareshani ho jaati.” (Bless them, otherwise it would have made things difficult for me.) It was early September and I was on my way back from teaching the first class of my video production course for undergraduate students at Ashoka University. It is typical of me to define and measure everything in units of love. And set my expectations rather high. It is December now and we are in the last week of the semester. Summing up things and saying goodbyes makes me overly emotional, so I get around it by pretending that nothing is coming to an end. Everything is a beginning; we will meet again. There is a mysterious continuum that will reveal itself to us as we go along. This is a greater truth than goodbyes. I …
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