Diaries

We are diaries

Diaries enable us work with ideas that can trigger new thinking, raise new questions and play beyond the usual boundaries set by the rigid structures and limits of columns on a printed newspaper page. They are an offshoot of our regular columns which we write to bring to focus "people less seen, voices less heard and perspectives less argued".

We are conversations

Our diaries sometimes report conversations with a range of practitioners, policy leaders and professionals who are ready to revisit the past, examine the present and look ahead with a critical eye and a sense of common good.

We are reflections

Our diaries open up spaces to reflect. These pages are free from the limits of structure, length, or time. They are an opportunity to roam free and reimagine our world to enable us explore new connections.

What is a reflection?

Reflections carry the capacity to clarify thinking, push learnings, and enable us and others draw from our work in ways we cannot while we are doing that work. That is why reflection is positioned as the highest form of learning. Read this note on reflections.

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Conversations

By Jagdish Rattanani, T Jacob John |
(Over most of April and May, as the Covid-19 pandemic unfolded in India, growing from just a handful of cases to take region after region in its grasp, Dr
By Jagdish Rattanani, T Jacob John |
Over most of April and May, as the Covid-19 pandemic unfolded in India, growing from just a handful of cases to take region after region in its grasp, Dr T
By Jagdish Rattanani, T Jacob John |
(Over most of April and May, as the Covid-19 pandemic unfolded in India, growing from just a handful of cases to take region after region in its grasp, Dr

Date's Diaries

By Vidyadhar Date |
A valuable treasure trove of art work, murals, frescoes and paintings lie in a 16th century monastery in old Goa, hidden from the world except on one d
By Vidyadhar Date |
Recently I went to the redeveloped, commercialised Mahim bus station with 24-storey building Kanakia Miami standing on the BEST plot and completely dominating the orig
By Vidyadhar Date |
This happened some time ago but it is worth a recall.
By Vidyadhar Date |
In a way, Kala Nagar and adjoining buildings are highly privileged because of the Thackeray presence.  A sound barrier is put up between the area and the Bandra K

COVID Diaries

By Jagdish Rattanani, T Jacob John |
(Over most of April and May, as the Covid-19 pandemic unfolded in India, growing from just a handful of cases to take region after region in its grasp, Dr
By Jagdish Rattanani, T Jacob John |
(Over most of April and May, as the Covid-19 pandemic unfolded in India, growing from just a handful of cases to take region after region in its grasp, Dr
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Many of us live through a routine that envelops our typical working day.