One of my adolescent fantasies has always been to go into the woods, think about transcendentalism,  find my own Walden pond and live there like Thoreau although it is a common misconception that he lived in isolation. It suited my introversion well but if I wanted to start somewhere, I would have started with the […]

When I was doing my internship in Auroville, I remember attending a seminar  with my colleagues by this ‘expert’ who practised alternative building techniques. After the seminar ended, during the Q&A session, a student asked him a very basic question, to which he smiled and answered, “I don’t know”. Can you believe it? After an […]

I believe it must be ten years now. Ten? Yeah. More or less. These things hardly make sense at the time, right? Kierkegaard said ,”Life must be lived forwards but can be understood backwards.” So around the time college – I studied Architecture-  was ending, I had a lengthy existential crisis and back then, I […]