This week, together with guests from England and Australia we visited Kaliyuva Mane for the celebrations of Republic Day
As I’ve got used to their inclusive approach the young people took an active role in presenting and entertaining their guests.
But there was another dimension I need to share with you.
Almost thirteen years ago — shortly after I’d moved to Mysore — a group of us cycled to visit local community projects.
I wrote about it in the local paper ‘The Star of Mysore’
Organised by Sham Sunder from the National institute of Engineering here in Mysore we met activists to learn about their strong social and environmental conscience and the active projects they’d created.
One of the places we visited was Kaliyuva Mane — a school FOR children. A free residential alternative to traditional schools.
This was going to come back into my life in a very satisfying way.
It’s a crisp winters morning but with a nice bright Sun. Breakfast is prepared and ready to serve the guests in an hour, so I now fetch curd and walk Lucie.
What a lovely morning, I praise a young neighbour’s Rangoli designs for Sankranti, while noticing other houses are already decorated with banana leaves with yellow painted cows passing by.
Declaring “Chennai-ge-day” (phonetical ‘good’) tea and getting a smile from the Chaiiwala. I’m reminded that …
Life’s good.
I’m happily reflecting on last night’s interesting dinner with great guests— teachers from Germany— with Sarvesh and of course preciousness herself Kaveri, Cauvery….
I’m forever told I don’t pronounce her name properly.
It’s lovely to have Kaveri here.
Kaveri continued her star performance. Entertained us over breakfast, helped install more Tibetan prayer flags
and become tutor showing how to draw rangoli.
A happy day.
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