“Our moment calls for a bolder reimagination, based not on the constrained, degraded conditions around us but on a more expansive view of history and reality, considering as possible baselines both realities of the past and audacious visions of the future.” – Alexandra Kleeman in “Bolder Reimagining”: 55 Voices for Democracy (video 6:33)
Video tutorial | Make an 8-page shirt pocket-sized booklet
A brief tutorial how it’s done within minutes
To share your ideas with others, make some copies and pass them forward.
Use the booklet as convenient handout during workshops or school excursions.
Presentation and music © Ludwig Pesch Creative Commons
What do we need?
- plain paper (letter size or any other)
- scissors
- a pen or pencil
- colours for the mini-poster or charts
- a nice story to share/a lesson to teach
“Flow” in music for integrated education and lifetime learning
“Just as flow is a prerequisite for mastery in a craft, profession, or art, so too with learning. Students who get into flow as they study do better, quite apart from their potential as measured by achievement tests.” – Daniel Goleman in Emotional Intelligence
Learn more in the context of a free, raga-based exercise that can be taught and practiced anywhere, any time with a modicum of experience and perseverance >>
The Oxford Illustrated Companion to South Indian Classical Music available
Book reviews: The Oxford Illustrated Companion to South Indian Classical Music | Publisher’s details | About the author
2023 reprint of the 2nd. rev. ed.
Rabindranath Tagore on new creations: a fundamental human need
“It is not the distinctive quality of man to be a mere repetition of his ancestors. Animals cling to the nests of their effete habits; man expresses himself age after age in new creations.”– Rabindranath Tagore in 1931 1
More on and by Rabindranath Tagore >>
Listen to Tagore: Unlocking Cages: Sunil Khilnani tells the story of the Bengali writer and thinker Rabindranath Tagore: https://bbc.in/1KVh4Cf >>
The acclaimed BBC 4 podcast series titled Incarnations: India in 50 Lives has also been published in book form (Allen Lane).
“I was moved by how many of these lives pose challenges to the Indian present,” he writes, “and remind us of future possibilities that are in danger of being closed off.”2
- Tagore on Gandhi, New Delhi 2008, p. 31[↩]
- Sunil Khilnani quoted in a review by William Dalrymple in The Guardian, 14 March 2016[↩]