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Rain, Forests, and the Slow Art of Growing Up

A reflection on how Hayao Miyazaki’s films reveal what modern childhood across Japan, India, and the world has forgotten: the freedom to wonder without fear, hurry, or instruction.

Anurag Shukla

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Inked in Time: The Living Histories of Indian Tattoos

To be tattooed in India was never to adorn the body, but to remember that the body itself is a scripture of belonging, pain, and continuity.

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Can India’s Liberal Arts Universities Think in Indian Languages?

India’s new liberal arts universities look modern and promising, but without the languages that shape students’ inner worlds, they cannot nurture genuine debate, original thought, or real intellectual freedom.

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Culture And Policy

The Global Childhood Factory: Inside the Quiet Takeover of the Early Years by Screens

In homes across continents, parents trade presence for pixels. What began as convenience is fast becoming the architecture of a new childhood.

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Cultural Commentary

The Pedagogy of Wonder

In rural Madhya Pradesh, a generation of teachers and children once turned science into a shared act of discovery. Their experiment endures as a quiet lesson on what education can still mean.

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The Wandering Mind: Rethinking Goals in an Age of Complexity

A reflection on Stanley and Lehman’s argument that novelty, not metrics, fuels creativity. The review considers how institutions might balance stability with serendipity.

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The Hill That Breathes Fire: Encountering Wonder at Arunachaleshwarar Temple

How ritual life at Arunachaleshwarar Temple in Tiruvannamalai turns everyday acts of waiting and walking into embodied experiences of the sacred, revealing devotion as a phenomenological way of knowing rooted in wonder.

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Inside the Gilded Classroom: How Imported Boarding Schools Are Redrawing India’s Educational Map

What does it mean when schooling itself becomes a luxury symbol, and childhood divides along lines of wealth and aspiration?

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Culture And Policy

Between Two Childhoods

This long-form essay reflects on how play, empathy, language, authority, and technology shape children’s lives. It contrasts Denmark’s culture of trust with India’s culture of anxiety, showing how small choices in homes and schools accumulate into a public vision of childhood.

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Culture And Policy

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Anurag Shukla

Rain, Forests, and the Slow Art of Growing Up

Inked in Time: The Living Histories of Indian Tattoos

Can India’s Liberal Arts Universities Think in Indian Languages?

The Global Childhood Factory: Inside the Quiet Takeover of the Early Years by Screens

The Pedagogy of Wonder

The Wandering Mind: Rethinking Goals in an Age of Complexity

The Hill That Breathes Fire: Encountering Wonder at Arunachaleshwarar Temple

Inside the Gilded Classroom: How Imported Boarding Schools Are Redrawing India’s Educational Map

Between Two Childhoods