For Vadnagar, where every excavation finds an older town underneath and the past is unusually present.
A town that keeps finding itself
Vadnagar has been continuously settled for something like two millennia, and excavation keeps confirming it - layer beneath layer, a Buddhist monastery, fortification walls, the torans still standing. It is also, as everyone locally is aware, the Prime Minister's birthplace, which has brought attention and investment.
Living somewhere historically significant
Two effects show up in sessions. The first is scale: it is difficult to treat your own decade as urgent when the ground beneath the house holds twenty centuries. That can be steadying, and it can also become a reason never to act.
The second is more specific to now. National attention raises local expectations about what people from here should become, and that lands hardest on the young. Being from a place that is suddenly significant is not the same as being significant, and the gap between those is where a lot of quiet pressure sits.
The work
Getting the timescale right. The long view is genuinely useful for perspective and genuinely useless for deciding what to do this year. Most people here need help holding both rather than collapsing into one.
Sessions
Online, in Gujarati.
Frequently asked questions
- Do you work with younger clients?
- Yes. In this town a large share of the pressure sits with people in their twenties.
- Is this connected to any political organisation?
- No. This is an independent coaching practice with no political affiliation.
