Author: Damayanti Bhattacharya

  • Imagining a Better World

    Imagining a Better World

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    [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Every generation speaks of the change that they have witnessed but we are a generation that has witnessed more change than most.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We are that last generation that used 25 paise yellow postcards and blue inland letters to write to family and friends and now ‘talk’ via emails, WhatsApp groups and video chats.

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  • Cultivating Life

    Cultivating Life

    Recently I noted with quiet pleasure that I finally have a gardener’s hands. Coarse and calloused, with stubborn dirt underneath my chipped, uneven fingernails. A steady reminder of my 62 companions at home clustered together in the balcony and in the three-wide window enclosures that IIT has so thoughtfully provided.

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