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From Personal Pages to National Record: A Mirror Writing Story

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When I first started writing mirror way, I had no idea I was unknowingly practicing one of the most primitive forms of coding known to humankind. Hello and welcome to my new write-up on mirror writing, don’t worry, here I am not going to write anything ulta 😁, but I will tell you how my mirror writing journey started. I was very young when I began writing a personal diary. I was in fifth standard. I was quiet by nature, shy, and had a small circle of friends. Conversations required a lot of efforts, and, to me, silence felt economical. So I found my comfort in pen and paper. The diary slowly became my safest place. The little me wrote everything, literally everything, daily incidents, innocent dramas, things that made me laugh, things that hurt, things I didn’t know how to say aloud. The diary listened without interrupting. Over the years, it grew along with me. By the time I reached twelfth standard, I had filled five or six diaries. Looking back, they were dramatic, emotional,...

The India That Raised Me - A Day with My Roots at Tribe Chhatri, Pune

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             An Encounter with Living Traditions After working for five days, it was finally a day of calm, a day to breathe slowly, to soak in quietness, to soothe my soul. I longed for a moment of stillness, something that would help me realign. I planned this day to reconnect with myself, and with the cultural roots that have always grounded me.   So, I thought, why not take a one-day India tour? A  journey not across cities or states, but across time. A visit to the India that still lives close to nature, in rhythm with earth and tradition, ‘the tribal India’. A visit to the India that raised me. 😊 The place my spirit feels most at home. Although I have shared it earlier, it’s worth repeating, I grew up in a small tribal village, Birsa, deep in the forests, under the Balaghat administrative region in Madhya Pradesh. This place, surrounded by dense greenery and rich biodiversity, holds a living culture passed down by generations....