This is a handspring:(https://www.superflyhoney.com/blogs/pole-tutorials/pole-trick-tutorial-handspring) I think I can safely say that a handspring is every baby-poler’s dream move. I always envisioned it as this gravity-defying symbol of a poler’s strength and balance. Rightly so because you literally have to hold your body weight upside down while micro-adjusting the balance of the push and pull between… Continue reading My handspring journey
Author: Debarati Das
A bothered snail 🐌
In a land with rolling mountains and clouds meeting the horizon, I find me trapped in a cage of nerves.
Why curate the live arts
Prelude: perspectives from a scientist I don’t have many memories of my childhood in which I have not been drawing. I think I have always been drawing. When I was a teenager and transitioning from high school to university, my father told me that if I chose science as my career path, I could do… Continue reading Why curate the live arts
Finding Mars in Death Valley
The text from my 2019–2021 National Geographics Explorer blog is transcribed here.
A Brown Girl’s Journey Through Science Across the World
My father is a scientist at an organization that is located inside the campus of India’s best University. I spent my childhood within the campus grounds of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Bombay… which means I grew up in a campus filled with India’s brightest minds. I went to a high school that… Continue reading A Brown Girl’s Journey Through Science Across the World