Three days at kanthari by Ananya Ayasi, a Make A Difference volunteer Make A Difference is an NGO that works around India in 23 cities, to foster children from shelter homes and help them achieve equitable outcomes. Every year, dream camps (DC) are conducted for the kids, away from their daily routines and lives, for […]
Corona Blog – Day 49: 12.05.2020 Read More »
Another virus that people have to live with kanthari TALKS, December 2015: After a brief introduction of the next speaker, the audience is prepared for what is coming. Suddenly the hall is filled with silence. It seems that even the crows in front of the auditorium have stopped their eternal croaking to listen to
Corona Blog – Day 48: 11.05.2020 Read More »
Covid-19 and the generation Z Who would have thought this? Just when we started to look forward to the worldwide relaxation of lockdowns, the next damper is already on its way: Generation Z, so, those born between 1997 and 2012, will ‘never be able to recover’ from the consequences of the Corona crisis. What
Corona Blog – Day 47: 10.05.2020 Read More »
A new silence… By Teresa Millich, (former intern) There it is again, the harrowing reminder that we have not yet mastered our humanity. The pursuit of control, the illusion of superiority, in the end just distanced us from it further. Humanity, our most essential, arguably most important characteristic. Buried under the flood of information,
Corona Blog – Day 46: 09.05.2020 Read More »
Food for thought “WE FELL ASLEEP” by Haroon Rashid “We fell asleep in one world, and woke up in another. Suddenly Disney is out of magic, Paris is no longer romantic, New York is a city asleep, the Chinese wall is no longer a fortress, and Mecca is empty. Hugs & kisses suddenly become
Corona Blog – Day 45: 08.05.2020 Read More »
Sports: Entertainment? Social Glue? or Lifesaver? By Riya Orison The pandemic has made people question the importance of many activities. One such question is, how essential is watching sports live on TV? During one such discussion in kanthari, Paul, who is an avid football fan, feels that sports events are not as important as many
Corona Blog – Day 44: 07.05.2020 Read More »
Corona and the bees Does it feel like an overdose of Corona news? Well, here is something different: KILLER bees! They are spreading all over the American continent. 50 people a year die from stings, and entire regular bee populations are literally being turned into ‘minced meat’. So? Do you have an appetite for
Corona Blog – Day 43: 06.05.2020 Read More »
Corona makes it possible: the anxious relax and the strong are losing it! By Meghana Raveendra, 2019 kanthari graduate and founder of Moringa, an organization that cares for anxiety disorder of students by offering alternative learning possibilities. With 45 thousand+ cases nationwide, and with 6500 confirmed cases, Mumbai is currently the epicentre of Corona in
Corona Blog – Day 42: 05.05.2020 Read More »
What if…. We sometimes wonder how many people are actually driving themselves crazy because nothing went according to plan this spring. All events, examinations, building projects, trips and upcoming medical interventions have either been cancelled or postponed indefinitely. How many people are probably have the “Corona Blues” because nothing is the way it should
Corona Blog – Day 41: 04.05.2020 Read More »
Winds of Change By Chacko Jacob In the last couple of days, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the “papal almoner”, has made headlines by wiring money to a small community of transgender women in a beach town near Rome. The lockdown has affected their most common form of livelihood – sex work. Struggling for food, and unseen
Corona Blog – Day 40: 03.05.2020 Read More »