Stories of enactment: how words shape and become our realities
Allow me to share a short story about how we have been entrapped in our words. A few weeks ago, Nihaal (our 10 years old) was crying in the car as we were returning home after a long day in Edinburgh. ‘Nihaal, stop crying’, mum said. And we all know how kids react to that. […]
The power of a conversation
Leaving India and thinking how best to summarise my time. Words are so limited, and often very useless when you have to articulate moments of epiphany … and I had so many epiphanies in these two weeks but here’s one. You see in this picture a charioteer and a warrior in conversation along with the […]
Micro-learning …… really?
I’m flying out from Chennai to Ahmedabad, and here’s a cup of water on my table with facts all around. The French invented French Fries in the 17th century Some power outages in the US are caused by squirrels The Australians declared wars on the emus twice. One can see many so-called learning programs designed […]
Learning from stories
This weekend after a long time we met with a close family friends for lunch. After a wonderful meal together, we sat down for a cup of tea. Under the coffee table, I saw a beautiful sculpture of an elephant. I picked it out and asked Lily, ‘what does this mean to you?’ Nothing really, […]
Stories are us
Our stories are not only bigger than the components (the characters, the plots, the timelines, the facts and the evidences) – often there is no relationship between the stories and the components. In accidents (and in life), we are so quick at creating stories. The good and the bad; the sacred and the profane; the […]