I have just finished reading Paul Brunton’s, ‘A Search In Sacred India’. The book traces his first visit to India in quest of a spiritual teacher whom he does find ultimately. It is a very unbiased narrative and questions spirituality as well as superstition. I liked it, but in the end he says that everything…
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A Hug In A Mug!
I am a milk person; having grown up drinking milk in one go, the bottoms up style, given the race between me and my brothers in our childhood. Coffee is something I keep for occasional drinking when I am in a mood for a good conversation or want to savour the weather, rainy or cold….
“For you, a thousand times over.”
Last Wednesday was Makar Sankranti, to celebrate Sun’s transit into Capricorn marking the end of winter solstice. The festival is celebrated in many different forms across all parts of India with much fervour as a harvest festival and kite flying is an integral part of this celebration in many parts of India. Come Makar Sankranti,…
Inventiveness – newness revisited.
Every Friday, in my previous school, a teacher addressed the assembly on the value of the fortnight. I was asked to give my ‘Teacher Talk’, on the above topic. I chanced to come across what I had shared in the assembly that day, two years back and share it here today. A very good morning…
Important questions
Come December and The Times of India would run stories featuring the best and worst of all that happened through the year in all the fields from art to the zaika (flavour) of the season. Papa, would want me to read it all so my general knowledge remained good. The TOI does not do it…
SNAFU!
There’s a small population in this world which not only makes mistakes but makes them famously and is embarrassed of them for eons. These people are afflicted with foot n’ mouth disease, no not the viral kind which affects the bovine population. I mean the one that lends them in situations where the populace succeeds…
Cul-de-sac!
Death seems to have taken fancy of me. It is a sort of constant companion these days. A colleague lost her husband, the next day I lost my father and as we were arranging for the funeral my mother in law took ill and I had to return the very next day to make arrangements…
A Birthday Gift!
Abhay always wanted two things for himself. One he wanted to live for 500 years and secondly, he appreciated my mediocre writing so much that he wanted me to write a book on him and I always laughed it off.It would have been his 50th birthday this 19th of November and I had always dreamt…
Don’t judge a book by its cover!
What do you make out from the image that you see for this post? A post about longing, a yearning, missing someone very dear. Oh my! You are a genius! And now the time for revelation… I used to play a lot of scrabble with my father and grandfather as a teenager and then it…
Mind Matters!
What do you see in the accompanying picture, a young lady or a babushka? No, don’t get me wrong; I am not here to run some test on psychology neither to give a philosophical point of view. I suck at both of them equally. And I am not a great fan of these words because…
Soans Rezones 