<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Anhaya Insights]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ideas from Anhaya Educational Foundation on reading and literacy, living culture, girls' agency, critical thinking and public speaking.]]></description><link>https://www.anhayafoundation.org/insights.html</link><lastBuildDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 07:30:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.anhayafoundation.org/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Why I Started Building Culture Atlas at 13]]></title><description><![CDATA[I kept finding interesting things about India. What I couldn't find easily was a way to see how they connected.]]></description><link>https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/why-i-started-building-culture-atlas-at-13.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/why-i-started-building-culture-atlas-at-13.html</guid><category><![CDATA[Culture Atlas Build Journal]]></category><dc:creator>Ahaan Deshmukh</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why India's Cultural Knowledge Needs Connections]]></title><description><![CDATA[The information exists. The paths between it are much harder to see.]]></description><link>https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/why-indias-cultural-knowledge-needs-connections.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/why-indias-cultural-knowledge-needs-connections.html</guid><category><![CDATA[Culture Atlas Build Journal]]></category><dc:creator>Ahaan Deshmukh</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Building the Cultural Graph]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why Culture Atlas needs things, relationships and paths — not just pages.]]></description><link>https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/building-the-cultural-graph.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/building-the-cultural-graph.html</guid><category><![CDATA[Culture Atlas Build Journal]]></category><dc:creator>Ahaan Deshmukh</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Culture Cannot Stop at State Boundaries]]></title><description><![CDATA[A map is useful, but cultural geography and administrative geography are not the same thing.]]></description><link>https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/why-culture-cannot-stop-at-state-boundaries.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/why-culture-cannot-stop-at-state-boundaries.html</guid><category><![CDATA[Culture Atlas Build Journal]]></category><dc:creator>Ahaan Deshmukh</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making Sources Part of Culture Atlas]]></title><description><![CDATA[If the Atlas tells you something, you should be able to ask how we know.]]></description><link>https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/making-sources-part-of-culture-atlas.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/making-sources-part-of-culture-atlas.html</guid><category><![CDATA[Culture Atlas Build Journal]]></category><dc:creator>Ahaan Deshmukh</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I'm Building First — and What I'm Leaving Out]]></title><description><![CDATA[Keeping V1 small enough to prove the central idea before building everything around it.]]></description><link>https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/what-i-am-building-first-in-culture-atlas.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/what-i-am-building-first-in-culture-atlas.html</guid><category><![CDATA[Culture Atlas Build Journal]]></category><dc:creator>Ahaan Deshmukh</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turning Culture Atlas Into a Real Data Model]]></title><description><![CDATA[The moment the Atlas became a database instead of a diagram, the neat categories became more complicated.]]></description><link>https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/turning-culture-atlas-into-a-real-data-model.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/turning-culture-atlas-into-a-real-data-model.html</guid><category><![CDATA[Culture Atlas Build Journal]]></category><dc:creator>Ahaan Deshmukh</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Database Outgrew the Interface]]></title><description><![CDATA[A database can know something that the product still makes impossible to discover.]]></description><link>https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/when-the-database-outgrew-the-interface.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/when-the-database-outgrew-the-interface.html</guid><category><![CDATA[Culture Atlas Build Journal]]></category><dc:creator>Ahaan Deshmukh</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Broke When Culture Atlas Became Real]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why failed builds, drifting routes and testing gaps belong in a real build journal too.]]></description><link>https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/what-broke-when-culture-atlas-became-real.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/what-broke-when-culture-atlas-became-real.html</guid><category><![CDATA[Culture Atlas Build Journal]]></category><dc:creator>Ahaan Deshmukh</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finding the Lonely Records in Culture Atlas]]></title><description><![CDATA[How records with no connections can become useful research questions instead of blanks to fill.]]></description><link>https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/finding-the-lonely-records-in-culture-atlas.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/finding-the-lonely-records-in-culture-atlas.html</guid><category><![CDATA[Culture Atlas Build Journal]]></category><dc:creator>Ahaan Deshmukh</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[How I Research One Culture Atlas Record]]></title><description><![CDATA[A simple process for moving from a search result to information I am actually comfortable adding.]]></description><link>https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/how-i-research-one-culture-atlas-record.html</link><guid 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empty field can be more honest than a weak claim.]]></description><link>https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/what-i-left-out-of-the-ganesha-chaturthi-record.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/what-i-left-out-of-the-ganesha-chaturthi-record.html</guid><category><![CDATA[Culture Atlas Build Journal]]></category><dc:creator>Ahaan Deshmukh</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Research Notes to Culture Atlas]]></title><description><![CDATA[Following the full path from evidence and questions to the page another learner finally sees.]]></description><link>https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/from-research-notes-to-culture-atlas.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/from-research-notes-to-culture-atlas.html</guid><category><![CDATA[Culture Atlas Build Journal]]></category><dc:creator>Ahaan Deshmukh</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Does Someone See First in Culture Atlas?]]></title><description><![CDATA[I tried to look at the first screen like someone who did not build it.]]></description><link>https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/what-does-someone-see-first-in-culture-atlas.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/what-does-someone-see-first-in-culture-atlas.html</guid><category><![CDATA[Culture Atlas Build Journal]]></category><dc:creator>Ahaan Deshmukh</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Happens After the First Click?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why one discovery should naturally create the next question.]]></description><link>https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/what-happens-after-the-first-click.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/what-happens-after-the-first-click.html</guid><category><![CDATA[Culture Atlas Build Journal]]></category><dc:creator>Ahaan Deshmukh</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[How I Would Test Culture Atlas With a New User]]></title><description><![CDATA[A plan for watching real people explore without explaining the product to them first.]]></description><link>https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/how-i-would-test-culture-atlas-with-a-new-user.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/how-i-would-test-culture-atlas-with-a-new-user.html</guid><category><![CDATA[Culture Atlas Build Journal]]></category><dc:creator>Ahaan Deshmukh</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Building a School-Wide Read-Aloud Schedule That Actually Holds]]></title><description><![CDATA[A read-aloud habit survives when the time is protected and the routine is easy to continue.]]></description><link>https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/building-a-school-wide-read-aloud-schedule-that-actually-holds.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/building-a-school-wide-read-aloud-schedule-that-actually-holds.html</guid><category><![CDATA[Reading & 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Warli Painting Tradition of Maharashtra: Geometry as Memory]]></title><description><![CDATA[Look beyond Warli's familiar geometry to the people, places, practices and memories carried through its visual language.]]></description><link>https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/the-warli-painting-tradition-of-maharashtra-geometry-as-memory.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/the-warli-painting-tradition-of-maharashtra-geometry-as-memory.html</guid><category><![CDATA[Living Culture]]></category><dc:creator>Anhaya Educational Foundation</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bhavai of Gujarat: Village Theatre as Social Record]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bhavai invites us to consider how performance, humour, audience and social observation can carry cultural memory.]]></description><link>https://www.anhayafoundation.org/post/the-bhavai-of-gujarat-village-theatre-as-social-record.html</link><guid 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