by Shantanu | Sep 28, 2021 | Experiential Education
* The dream-child moving through a land * – Poem in preface to ‘Alice in Wonderland’ by Lewis Carroll The OutdoorPersons (OP) series brings you a post written by Shari Khanolkar. I have known Shari since she was a little girl, since she came in as the youngest...
by Shantanu | Mar 31, 2021 | Experiential Education, Natural History
* ‘Insects are animals, too’ – book by Anthony Wootten * Don’t ask me how or why but I ended up with an M.B.A. degree and then, trying to look smart in a tie (!), started going in for job interviews. One such episode happened in one of India’s most picturesque and...
by Shantanu | Feb 3, 2021 | Experiential Education, Hiking in the Indian Western Ghats, Natural History
* ‘A Considerable Speck’ – title of poem by Robert Frost * Whenever the aeroplane I am in takes off or approaches an airport, I am drawn to the sight of clusters of buildings lying scattered below. And without fail I think of them as nothing but anthills. Valid...
by Shantanu | Jan 20, 2021 | Experiential Education
* There is magic in experiencing links between academics and reality! * In one of the posts on this blog (here – the post is on ‘respecting wildlife’) I have mentioned how generations of readers have scoured pavements of cities like Mumbai and Delhi...
by Shantanu | Dec 7, 2020 | Experiential Education
* Observe wildlife from a distance. Do not follow or approach them. (LNT Principle) * Making their way up a stream in the local hills one day, my son and his friend had suddenly come upon a python lying in a small puddle in the stream. Had he been looking somewhere...
