Thursday, March 28, 2024
SEEMA MUNIZ

Author: SEEMA MUNIZ

Seema Muniz, a feature writer with the Times of India group in the nineties, is an avid reader and educationist, who homeschooled her son until tenth grade, while drifting between New York and Alaska with her family. She is also an artist, with a few solo and group shows in Albany, NY, to her credit.

post-Can We Break Free Of Our Smartphones?Can We Break Free Of Our Smartphones?

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...

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post-Let’s Be Our Real SelvesLet’s Be Our Real Selves

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...

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post-Awakening…Awakening…

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...

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post-Confidence Comes from Self-AwarenessConfidence Comes from Self-Awareness

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...

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post-Let’s Save Our WorldLet’s Save Our World

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...

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post-A Salute to the Bicycle HeroesA Salute to the Bicycle Heroes

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...

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post-The Time When We Were All Environmental WarriorsThe Time When We Were All Environmental Warriors

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,...

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post-A Different Cup of TeaA Different Cup of Tea

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....

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