A Meditative Tea at Sera Je Monastery

MUHAMMED NOUSHAD drinks the ginger-lemon-honey tea prepared by Tibetan monks at Sera Jey Monastic University in Bylakuppe and reflects on the importance of The Way of Tea in Buddhist paths. The Yiga Choeling Cultural Center of Sera Jey Buddhist monastery has a small tea shop in front of it, a round-shaped hut that opens only in the evening. In the

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Drinking Tea and Sharing Silences at SAFI Canteen

Looking at the rain and fog beyond the river Chaliyar, sipping tea at SAFI canteen is quite an experience, remembers MUHAMMED NOUSHAD. Photographs by HARIKRISHNA Apart from the beautiful people I met and befriended at SAFI Institute of Advanced Study, one of the loveliest memories I cherish about this campus is its canteen. A small, banal structure that overlooks the

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A Charge-sheet Against Education

This incomplete draft is a random and hurried list of the pressing issues that educationists face in schools. Co-written with my friend ABDUL AZEEZ, in an attempt to pen the vision and mission of a school he has been struggling to build in his native place in Malappuram district. What’s wrong with our education system? Well. That’s a very old question;

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The Mess of Enrolling Your Child in a School

Which school to choose and why – the frustrations and confusions of a parent while enrolling the first child in a school; republishing an old note.  I was seeing a Montessori classroom for the first time. The amazing range of materials my friend Azeez bhai showed and explained to me just won me over. A very unconventional hall with many study materials

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On Alternative Thoughts and Models in Education

A quick look into the educational thought of Paulo Friere and Ivan Illich among others. By MUHAMMED NOUSHAD. Paulo Friere did not have to read the abridged children’s version of Les Miserables from his school text books. He was brought up in one of the extremely impoverished neighbourhoods in Recife, Brazil, and poverty was his childhood friend. He belonged to

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