दशरथ बैठक
Dashrath Baithak
अपनों के संग, एक शाम सुकून की
Every other page on this site asks you for something. This one does not. The baithak exists because the thing the sevashram is short of is not money — it is company on an ordinary Tuesday.
Come alone, come with your children, come with three friends. Have tea. Play a round of carrom badly. Listen to somebody who has been waiting all week to be asked a question.
There is nothing to prepare and nothing to bring. If you want to bring something, bring your parents.
- Cost
- Nothing at all
- Morning slot
- 10:00 – 12:00
- Evening slot
- 4:30 – 6:30
- What to bring
- Yourself
What people usually end up doing
None of this is a programme. It is what an afternoon there tends to turn into.
चाय पे चर्चा
Tea at four, and whatever conversation comes with it. This is most of it, honestly.
No cost
Carrom, ludo, cards
The board is already there. Expect to lose.
No cost
Bhajan and kissagoi
Singing in the evening, and the stories that follow. Bring an instrument if you play one.
No cost
If you run out of things to say
Most people freeze in the first five minutes. Any one of these will fill an hour — they have been tested.
- 01
“What did Indore look like when you were twenty?”
- 02
“What was the first film you saw in a cinema?”
- 03
“Teach me something you are good at.”
- 04
“What did you do for work?”
- 05
“What food do you miss?”
- 06
“Who was the toughest teacher you ever had?”
- 07
“What is something young people get wrong?”
- 08
“Tell me about your best friend.”
Book a slot
Come and sit. No donation, no arrangement, no occasion — just an afternoon or an evening with the residents.
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