by Devjani Bodepudi | Jan 14, 2017 | Motherhood
There are times when we look at the world and feel despair. Events over the months of 2016 and part way across the threshold of 2017, have given us justifiable cause for such malaise. Trump will be president within days. The Syrians are either forgotten or vilified,...
by Devjani Bodepudi | Dec 27, 2016 | Travel
There is an elderly lady who lives in a small but adequate flat in the Begumpet locality of the city of Hyderabad. She is surrounded by her family; her son, her daughter-in-law and her two grandchildren. She wears a red sari and her hair is white. Her skin is the...
by Devjani Bodepudi | Dec 10, 2016 | Travel
As I work and toil, like real everyday people do, I can’t help but let my mind wander sometimes. I’m back in a routine. I’m getting things done, the class I work in is working well, until management tells me it is not (which I hope won’t happen...
by Devjani Bodepudi | Oct 25, 2016 | poetry
Above is an illustration for a poem I wrote called Stagnation. The artist who created this beauty did so most generously and I feel that this is a gift. I am most grateful. Goncalo is a genius. Please visit his blog, Alienato https://goncalojuliao.wordpress.com To...
by Devjani Bodepudi | Oct 25, 2016 | Uncategorized
I was talking to a colleague at the end of the last academic year, before I began my experiment of coming back to teaching full time, about the importance of work-life balance. I mentioned that what I had learnt in India had changed me fundamentally, as a person, that...
