Before lunch one sees Aman (the boy in the green T-shirt-5years) walk purposefully towards our tiny garden and get a banana leaf for lunch. He sprinkles water on the leaf to clean it, serves his food
The Snake Dance
This was a beautiful sight , that the entire Shibumi family witnessed after our evening quiet time. Two snakes coiled around each other in a seemingly affectionate dance. This tussle we thought was a
A Walk to Remember
Last week the Ketaki’s (Age 7 to 9) went for a walk, the plan was to go mulberry picking in a gated community. Mulberries, we had heard were filled in the bushes and we were so excited to collect our
Thulirs in Kaigal
This year our young Thulirs (Age 6 to 9) spent four days in Kaigal. Here the Krishnamurti Foundation owns acres of beautiful forested land with the Kaigal river flowing through it. This land is on the
When to rhyme was a crime: A week of poetic madness at Shibumi
It always thrills me when I get a chance to work with poetry. As an avid fan of stories and prose, poetry came to me much later in life and since then I’ve been hooked. So, when Shibumi suggested I wo