So my friend landed today, with his 20-month old in tow. I watched carefully as she met my son for the first time – engaging to see the dynamics of their interaction. A cautious approach, but warm, and observing each other before the elder one protectively laid her hand on the younger’s head. The younger …
If you look closely, our lives play out in phases. There is a noticeable beginning and an end to these phases, and we generally know these two markers. What happens in the middle is usually taken to be “life as usual”. This can be with education, career, relationships, friendships…anything or anyone who plays an important …
I just had another tooth filled in – a bit of pain… My son is teething, and while we wait for his first teeth to appear…a bit of pain. Someone elder in my family had a fall…a small surgery and they would need a walker now, for a while… My son is crawling at 50 …
Birthdays are all about wishes. And you get a lot of them. Ever since the explosion of email, one even gets wishes from the bank, the neighborhood e-grocer and your bike servicing company. Everyone is in bliss apparently, that you were born:| Jokes apart, the ones that matter mostly come on WhatsApp. Cards are passe …
Two headlines caught my attention post Diwali. They are not related to each other by any stretch of imagination, but I found them to be most interesting. One was the unveiling of a statue of Adi Sankara at Kedarnath. Arguably the biggest influence on Indian thought in over a thousand years, the same thought that …
OTT has exposed Bollywood, and how! People spent the first half Covid discovering the beauty (and superiority) of regional cinema, from Malayalam to Telugu and Tamil fare. Then came the Korean tsunami. Bollywood resembled the emperor in his new clothes… And so Radhe the unwanted bhai, Laxmi, Bhuj and many such silly movies were saved …
Deepawali is known as the Festival of lights. Arguably the most well-known festival from India, Deepawali (or Diwali) is celebrated around the world, even in the United Arab Emirates, where dazzling fireworks and light shows mark the occasion. A lot of Indian festive buying culminates in Diwali. People buy everything from cars to jewellery to mobile …
ये हि संस्पर्शजा भोगा दु:खयोनय एव ते |आद्यन्तवन्त: कौन्तेय न तेषु रमते बुध: || 22|| ye hi sansparśha-jā bhogā duḥkha-yonaya eva teādyantavantaḥ kaunteya na teṣhu ramate budhaḥ The pleasures that arise from contact with the sense objects, though appearing as enjoyable to worldly-minded people, are actually a source of misery. O son of Kunti, such …
Did you know that today is celebrated as the National Ayurveda Day? Mostly not. We have come to associate this day with buying gold or silver or something valuable, because well, Dhan means wealth na? धन्वन्तरि – Dhanavantari dhanu = “science of [extracting] arrows” (surgery) dhanu + anta = dhanvanta = “the end (complete knowledge) …
ज्योतिषाम् अपि तज् ज्योतिस् तमसः परम् उच्यते । ज्ञानं ज्ञेयं ज्ञान-गम्यं हृदि सर्वस्य धिष्ठितम् ॥ १८ ॥ jyotiṣām api taj jyotis tamasaḥ param ucyate |jñānaṃ jñeyaṃ jñāna-gamyaṃ hṛdi sarvasya dhiṣṭhitam || 18 || Srimad Bhagavad Gita The Self is the source of all light. The Self is beyond the darkness of matter and is unmanifested. The Self is …
