Ratika Deshpande
Ratika Deshpande
Ratika Deshpande
Hey there! I’m Ratika Deshpande (she/her), a writer, reader, student, and global citizen. My articles have appeared in Reactor magazine, Authors Publish magazine, Submittable, and The Learning Scientists blog. I earned my B.A. (Honours) in Applied Psychology from the University of Delhi. Born in Indore, I studied in Nagpur and New Delhi. Currently, I’m pursuing an M.A. in Education. I love fantasy books, Studio Ghibli movies, Indian classical music and cooking.
Latest Posts
Lately, I’ve been finding myself tired of reading stuff by and about Western people. I’m mainly talking about the U.K. and the U.S.; I don’t think I’ve read much stuff by Canadians or Australians, including blog posts and online...
This morning, while making my bed after breakfast, I finished listening to Goodnight Tokyo by Atsuhiro Yoshida (narrated by Kaipo Shwab, translated from Japanese by Haydn Trowell). It’s a series of stories that take place past midnight...
The earliest book I remember reading is a picture book that I think my father bought (or was it a gift, a giveaway?) from his office in New Delhi. I remember only the brown paper packaging–a thin envelope, the kind in which you often get...
What does one do when all one can think of is spending hours in a library and buying new books for one’s collection but can do neither of those things because they’re broke and hundreds of kilometres from said library and any decent...
Since resuming a regular notebook-keeping habit, I’ve started collecting the “junk” of every day life–tickets, flower, receipts–to have tangible reminders of moments lived. Yesterday a friend of mine (the same one who bought star fruits...
I listened to The Anthropologists over the last few days while doing my laundry at 10 pm and making charts of little poems for children at the anganwadi I’m working at. At several points, I thought that I must buy a physical copy of the...
On the bad days, I dig through my drafts. Today, I found these: Read The Republic of Letters on Wikipedia “Assyrian Women of Letters” by Durrie Bouscaren “What Urdu writers teach us about the art of letter writing” by Poorna Swami “The...
When he’s not keeping the clocks of the Paris train station in the name of his missing uncle, Hugo Cabret steals parts of clockwork toys from the toy shop at the station. The lonely boy’s most precious possession is an automaton that his...
It’s sublime, to go into another room and make pictures. It’s magic time, where all your weaknesses of character, the blemishes of your personality, whatever else torments you, fades away, just doesn’t matter. You’re doing the one thing...
“Our public libraries need attention; here’s why we should care” by Madhumita Rajan An article filled with facts that makes one feel very hopeless, but also gives some motivation to do something about it. “I’m a Librarian, Therapist,...
Over the last decade, I’ve spent countless hours going through the archives of Austin Kleon’s blog and Tumblr (the latter was especially an important anchor when I was down with typhoid for a month, back in 2018 and couldn’t do anything...
This afternoon, somehow I found myself reading an article titled, “I Deleted My Second Brain,” something I didn’t need to do because I’m not on the second-brain, efficient note-taking for productivity and creativity and...
Krishna Kumar keeps stunning me with observations I’ve made all my life and experienced as a child but never deeply looked back upon after learning so much about children and education. Here’s an excerpt from a chapter on writing from...
On his Tumblr, Austin Kleon shared some excerpts from this article by Ted Hope, who wrote: “If you make films, it is your responsibility to help others discover what is good to watch. If you love films — or a particular type of film — it...
I’m in Chhattisgarh for field practice until mid-December. For the past two weeks I’ve been living, for the first time, the hostel life, although it is nowhere as adventurous or eventful as the experiences I’ve heard about from other...