I have been thinking a lot about trust this week. I am thinking about the group of people who bared some of their rawest parts of their hearts in an exercise we did about values and our thresholds of tolerance for being challenged. About the peers who are processing some…

This is Part 4 of a 4 part series exploring the concept of “privilege” in our lives. (Read the introduction, Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.) By Aprajita Pandey and Jayati Doshi At this point, we want to come back to the existential questions for a moment and offer…

This is Part 3 of a 4 part series exploring the concept of “privilege” in our lives. (Read the introduction, Part 1, Part 2 and Part 4.) By Aprajita Pandey and Jayati Doshi When we first began to ask these questions, the voice of cynicism first took over: “It’s unfortunate…

This is Part 2 of a 4 part series exploring the concept of “privilege” in our lives. (Read the introduction, Part 1, Part 3 and Part 4.) By Aprajita Pandey and Jayati Doshi To summarise the previous parts, if we understand privilege as discussed until now, it highlights: That our…

This is Part 1 of a 4 part series exploring the concept of “privilege” in our lives. (Read the introduction, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4.) By Aprajita Pandey and Jayati Doshi We usually speak about “privilege” in the context of identity groups such as caste, class, gender, religion…

What our personal exploration about the privilege conversation taught us — understanding, making sense and learning about “privilege” as a larger concept — and some ideas on what to do about it. By Aprajita Pandey and Jayati Doshi Introduction If our lives were a movie, these last few months would be…

Lessons I learnt about vulnerability from consciously choosing to be as vulnerable as I could for some time. With a little activity in the end if you feel like experimenting. Late 2015. I had spent a few months now speaking to people about love. The word “vulnerability”, not surprisingly, had…

One of the questions I get asked most commonly when I tell people about the time I spent talking to strangers about love is “how do you get people to tell you all these intimate stories of their lives?”. Umm… I generally love talking to people and have been doing…

Skip to content Part 1: Understanding vulnerability (DO try this at home) It’s kind of hard to talk about love without discussing vulnerability. Or so I realised when I interviewed strangers about love. For most people I spoke with, not surprisingly, vulnerability was something that was reserved for their intimate/ close relationships. …