philosophy
Our garden has been barren for many months now. The kids, who tend to this garden, are living strange lives in their own homes; disconnected from each other and from us. This Teachers' Day we brought it alive again. It has been two years since we started the horticulture
ragasvara
One major objective for Raga Svara is to create, what I call, “Porosity of Boundaries”. I want to make the solid walls between apparently different ideas more porous, more accommodating. One such boundary is between western medicine and our traditional medicine. I have thought for quite sometime about Indian traditional
ragasvara
We often feel lost. Unable to express ourselves. We try many different ways. Some write, some paint, some dance and some photograph. Some find true expression in the work they do. But very often we find ourselves unable to express our true selves. We need “symbols”, that is works of
We build institutions. Sometimes I wonder why? The question whether it makes "business" sense does not appeal to me. I cannot think in traditional entrepreneurial terms (not proud of the fact). What we are making is a place of extraordinary experience. There are many mental frameworks that I
Mohit Patel | My Dear Learners, The first thing on my mind is how much I, and all the educators, miss seeing you. You all are the soul of the school and, frankly, our lives as well. You have not been to school for 45 days. That is as long as
philosophy
Lockdown Reading. Last year, a few of my 7th grade students made a request to allow them to sit in one of my philosophy classes. I warned them that they might not enjoy it as much as they presume. S - "No sir, please let us sit with you&
Sharing learning resources and readings during the COVID-19 lockdown. There is no coherent structure to this. It will be a bunch of links put together. Hopefully, it is useful to some.
architecture
An incredible feeling to look back just a few months in the past when we began construction for Mandala at Raga Svara. Like all built spaces the transformation of the landscape feels overpowering to me. Everything we have built whether at The Northstar School or now at Raga Svara, is
Thoughts
Mohit Patel खुसरो दरिया प्रेम का, उल्टी वा की धार। जो उतरा सो डूब गया, जो डूबा सो पार।। खुसरो बाजी प्रेम की मैं खेलूँ पी के संग। जीत गयी तो पिया मो
Again and again Again and again, however we know the landscape of love and the little churchyard there, with its sorrowing names, and the frighteningly silent abyss into which the others fall again and again the two of us walk out together under the ancient trees, lie down again and
existentialism
Photo essay of a journey through forgotten towns. Pictures and words by Mohit Patel. It takes 2 hours and 5 stories to reach the "village-at-no-place". Some of these stories are told out loud, while some play out in your mind. The words being told mingle with the stories
philosophy
I don't quite remember how I got interested in reading Sartre. Sometime in the first or second year of my college, I got a copy of Being and Nothingness. At the time, I was a complete newbie to reading anything difficult, let alone philosophy. In hindsight, I can&