Author: SEEMA MUNIZ

What is night and day? One is dark and urges us to be reclusive, while the other is bright and dictates that we interact with others. Are these two distinct worlds created by the Supreme Being with a particular purpose?...

This tale by SEEMA MUNIZ shows how each one of us sees God differently Master, where is God?” asked the four eager disciples at the end of their term. “Here, and There”, the Master replied serenely, sweeping with his downcast...

SEEMA MUNIZ traces the modern world’s fight with sleeplessness and suggests a host of remedies to help you grab a good night’s sleep The modern world is always fighting: fighting against depression, both economic and mental, fighting against injustice, racism,...

SEEMA MUNIZ recalls her first job interview with the famous Anand Hingorani, who had been Gandhiji’s personal secretary and editor of the weekly magazine, Harijan  When I received my first interview call, I was  a little nervous. For having spent much...

During our tireless travels for the last twenty years, hopping continents, countries, adapting to new cultures, learning other languages, from time to time, I was reminded of the old man who owned a little tea shop on the outskirts of...

Seema Muniz captures the delights of the ubiquitous apple, since its fall from grace in early Biblical times It is that time of the year again, when I slip into a nostalgic spell as friends from North-Atlantic America begin posting photos...

SEEMA MUNIZ profiles a group from Puducherry’s Auroville, who found themselves stranded in India after the lockdown, but decided to put their time to good use For the 60-plus members of zerowaste, it hasn’t been so easy to turn plastic...

Running an NGO for the last nine years, having cleaned over ninety water bodies across India, I was expecting the founder and the CEO of EFI (Environmentalist Foundation of India) to be suave and swanky, especially as he had worked...

Nothing can be healthier and more stimulating than a steaming cup of hot tea, discovers the writer Tea is much like poetry. And, I think, among all poetic forms, it is the humble 17-syllabled haiku, a type of short form...

As a storm brews 10 kms south of here in Puducherry, electricity fails, internet service drops automatically, ants scurry for protection in the grooves along the keyboard of the unsuspecting laptop. When one lives in the tropics, close to the...

It was our ninth grade creative writing teacher, who made us realise that each one of us was unique, with our singular way of looking at life and the world, if only we cared to observe ourselves in a moment...

In the primordial darkness Of the ancient Mother’s womb Something stirred: vestiges of Consciousness, Burst into thousand-petaled  lotuses, A light pierced through the pall of clouds, Revealing shards of a shimmering rainbow, The  ocean gurgled and laughed its deep cerulean...

Confidence is an inner attribute. It doesn’t come from having a fair skin colour, as claimed by Fair and Lovely and other such product ads, or from having a lush, voluminous turf, as conveyed by Parachute and several hair oil...

We can either be butchers and cut up Earth’s resources mercilessly or protect it from further damage, so that it can heal itself There once lived a venerable sage at the ghats of the river Ganga. When he preached, crowds...

For some of the migrants, their bicycles have proved their saviour. They used it to cycle all the way home hundreds of kilometres away. The author recalls her own carefree cycling days back in the ‘70s in the context of...

In the seventies when I was growing up, we were all Greta Thunbergs, environmental warriors. Except that we did not know it. The way of life, adopted by our family of nine with my dad being the sole bread earner,...

The lockdown gave the author time to experiment with different kinds of flower and herbal teas I will begin with the etymology of Swastha, the Sanskrit word for health and well-being. It is a compound word, combining, Swa, and Stha....