Jo’s Blog

The hints went up on Facebook a few nights ago and the reverberations have been constant ever since. “Manju’s Farewell” read the headline and the questions started pouring in: Manju di? Where are you going? Why? What? WHAT???? [...]

LOVE AFTER LOVE The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your [...]

Our Lecture Series is a bit of a Dehradun legend . . . beginning in 2005 with four events in one year, including a standing room only concert for inclusion in 2006 featuring the American folk music sensation Charlie King, we have brought a wide [...]

If there is one thing I prize above all else, it is generosity. I love the open hand, the quick yes, the ready spirit, the willingness to share. What I hate is hoarding, hiding, holding back. The niggling, the counting, the tallying of accounts. [...]

When I was around ten, I discovered, all on my own, the pure joy of hitting a ball against a wall and batting it back again and again and again. I could amuse myself for hours doing this. I actually remember wondering why it was so much fun (I [...]

Walking out to my own garden to pluck lettuce last night, just before dinner, I stumbled headlong into an open pit, newly excavated to repair some leaking pipes. I had forgotten it was there. I hurt myself quite badly, enough so that Ravi [...]

One of the trickiest balances to get in teaching children art is the one between direction and imposition; between mastery and the imagination. I remember dissolving into tears in 3rd grade over a rabbit I could not get to look recognizably like [...]