दीप्यते दीपयति वा स्वं परं चेति that which is light and enlightens others is known as Deepa… Tomorrow is my janma tithi, that time of the year when the celestial ingredients are the same as when you were born, your own personal set of inputs that led to the miracle that is you. We all are …
Right. The biggest festival of them all is upon us. Deepavali (as I like to call it) signifies much more than what most of us believe it to be. And surely more than “Festival of Lights”. It is also the festival of sounds by the way, which have fallen silent due to silly rules that …
Cinema is entertainment like no other. It makes us live out our dreams, and in some cases, helps us see reality. Today was a day of cinema. It started on a bad note, with the unexpected and untimely death of Puneet Rajkumar, the son of the Dr. Rajkumar, and a superstar in the Kannada film …
It finally happened, so now we can all go back to our daily lives. For 20-odd days, every news headline read the same. Now that the prodigal son has been granted bail, the nation heaved a collective sigh of relief. It is said that the GDP numbers have been drastically affected due to the lack …
Oops, that was meant to read – Board Meetings. Meetings of the Board of Directors. By the way, why is it called the “Board’? Here is an interesting tidbit. In the 16th century the ‘board’ (that hunk of wood) was the name of the table at which a council met and it also came to …
Well, I learnt a bit about both this week. First – about gold. That it’s lure still attracts, but in ways that I didn’t quite imagine. Something about the yellow metal makes it impossible for us to stay away from it, even after so many years. Anyways, I was speaking to someone about how he …
The lunar calendar can be confusing, or invigorating, depending on which side of the fence you are on. If you are on the boring side, every year is the same, as far as dates are concerned. Your birthday always falls on the same day, so does New Year, and everything in between. But if you …
Ok, I watched a match after a long time, and India lost. Terribly. India-Pakistan matches used to be evenly balanced – our batting vs their bowling prowess. These matches used to be fought inch-to-inch, with the tide turning many times during the battle. Then, they started to get one sided. Usually on our side. India …
Two bits of information caught my attention today. One was about Epishura, and the second was about Li Ziqi. Now, chances are that you have not heard of either of them. Nor had I. The first one inhabits Lake Baikal, the largest source of freshwater in the world. It contains 23% of the worlds’s freshwater, …
ॐ असतो मा सद्गमय।तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय।मृत्योर्मामृतं गमय ॥ ॐ शान्ति शान्ति शान्तिः ॥ बृहदारण्यकोपनिषद् 1.3.28। asato mā sadgamaya, tamaso mā jyotirgamaya, mṛtyormāmṛtaṃ gamaya We have all heard this mantra and have had a quick glimpse of it’s meaning – lead us from ignorance to knowledge, from darkness to light, from death to immortality. This mantra …
