Views, Perspective and Reflections
It was just another day after soccer practice when twelve boys parked their bikes outside Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand and walked into the cave with their coach. This was not the first time they had done this. It was meant to be a simple expedition, a few minutes to explore and scratch the itch of curiosity. Unexpected torrential rains [...]
Sandeep Kishore
I have always been fascinated by language. I’m naturally drawn to communication, especially in the form of books, poems, songs and letters. To me, language takes its most beautiful shape in the form of written language. I find myself drawn to writing thoughts down many times over and shaping them until they become poems, with a life all [...]
Sandeep Kishore
Harvard University is awe-inspiring. The oldest university in the US exudes an air of establishment and great minds. It’s post-Spring Break in April and near the close of the current academic year, the campus feels alive. Cambridge, Massachusetts is chillier than I expected. Recent rains will soon prove their value by way of new buds on [...]
Sandeep Kishore
Saturday March 17th was a humbling day in many ways. For an hour, I walked the neighborhood of Kharadi in Pune, India with my fellow Zensarians as we came together to help clean up one small patch of the city. We were a committed team of 100-plus Zensarians, equipped with brooms, rubber gloves and trash bags. We collected trash from streets [...]
Sandeep Kishore
Last Friday, a colleague’s son was in lockdown at his high school in Austin, Texas. He was sitting against the wall with his peers in pitch dark. No one moved or talked. Later he relayed his thoughts to his mother — “I was nervous but not scared. If it comes down to it, I’ll take action. I won’t go quietly crouched along a wall. [...]
Sandeep Kishore