https://blog.nivedita.me/blog/Recent content in Blogs on The Paper TrailHugo -- gohugo.ioThe Paper Trail - All rights reservedMon, 15 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.nivedita.me/blog/immense-world/Mon, 15 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.nivedita.me/blog/immense-world/Ed Yong’s An Immense World is a book on animal senses. If you’ve ever wondered what a bird sees or how fish communicate then this book is for you.https://blog.nivedita.me/blog/multilingualism/Thu, 26 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.nivedita.me/blog/multilingualism/A friend asked me recently, “What languages are you most comfortable in?” “English”, I said, regretfully. Growing up, I spoke three languages: Kannada, Tamil, and Hindi.https://blog.nivedita.me/blog/perspective/Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.nivedita.me/blog/perspective/I step out of the lodge into a cold, moonless night and walk to the water’s edge. A single bulb outside the lodge winks out and I walk with care on an unpaved trail, feeling the darkness take shape around me.https://blog.nivedita.me/blog/mixtape/Mon, 24 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.nivedita.me/blog/mixtape/Last month I wrote about my earliest memories of listening to music. Throughout the nineties I listened to music on our trusty tape recorder with built-in AM/FM radio.https://blog.nivedita.me/blog/ladybirds/Fri, 07 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.nivedita.me/blog/ladybirds/The ladybirds began arriving in ones and twos as the weather turned chilly. I noticed one on the bathroom window screen and wondered how it got there because the window was shut.https://blog.nivedita.me/blog/end-of-ice/Thu, 30 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.nivedita.me/blog/end-of-ice/In early 2019 I read the book The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption by Dahr Jamail, an American war correspondent and mountaineer.https://blog.nivedita.me/blog/holy-land/Thu, 09 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.nivedita.me/blog/holy-land/We moved to Mumbai in 2001. We lived in an apartment building located down a narrow road from Santacruz railway station. There were about 20 flats in the apartment.https://blog.nivedita.me/blog/music-over-the-years/Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.nivedita.me/blog/music-over-the-years/I recently finished Questlove’s class on music curation and DJing on MasterClass. I expected to learn a lot from someone who is at the top of their craft, which I did.https://blog.nivedita.me/blog/memory-museums/Sun, 31 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.nivedita.me/blog/memory-museums/When I travel to a new place, I look for local museums of history and culture. Objects displayed in a museum are curated to tell stories about the place and its people.https://blog.nivedita.me/blog/natural-world/Sun, 24 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.nivedita.me/blog/natural-world/There is a photograph of me standing in the South African bush flanked by two rangers with old fashioned rifles. I am awkward and stiff but manage to smile for the camera.https://blog.nivedita.me/blog/scaffolding-for-time/Sun, 17 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.nivedita.me/blog/scaffolding-for-time/They say you are what you read, so in a burst of introspection I organized books I had read recently. I select books to read based on suggestions from friends, book clubs, and based on my own interests and curiosity.https://blog.nivedita.me/blog/arepas/Sun, 10 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.nivedita.me/blog/arepas/Claudia stirred the pot. Yes, the stuffing was done. She took the pot off the heat and replaced it with a pan filled with water.