Month: August 2022

गणानां त्वा गणपतिं हवामहेकविं कवीनामुपमश्रवस्तमम् ।ज्येष्ठराजं ब्रह्मणां ब्रह्मणस्पतआ नः शृण्वन्नूतिभिः सीद सादनम् ॥ Gannaanaam Tvaa Ganna-Patim HavaamaheKavim Kaviinaam-Upama-Shravastamam |Jyessttha-Raajam Brahmannaam BrahmannaspataAa Nah Shrnnvan-Uutibhih Siida Saadanam || Among the Ganas (Group of Prayers), to you who is the Ganapati (Deva of Prayers), we offer this havan (ritual fire), You are the wisdom of the wise and the most glorious of all, You are the foremost in prayer, presiding as the Deva of the Prayers (Brahmanaspati), Please come to us by listening to our humble …

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श्री गणेशाय नमः! Shri Ganesha is among the most popular deities in the Hindu Pantheon. He is worshipped in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bali, Bangladesh, Fiji, Mauritius, and many other countries around the world.  His images are found in Tibetan Buddhism, Shingon Buddhism, Japanese Kanji and Jainism as well.  Known as the remover of …

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As the frog said, “the one with thousand tricks sat on the head of the fisherman, the one with hundred tricks is hanging by the fisherman’s arm and I with only one trick am happily swimming in the water.” Two fish named Sahasrabuddhi and Satabuddhi made a lake their home. They had a frog as a friend whose name …

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The unthinkable happened today. Usually, on the day of an India-Pakistan encounter, nothing else matters. From news channels to social media, only one thing trends. Fans line up on both sides of the digital border and fire well-meaning salvos and memes, building up to the actual clash where ball-by-ball updates are thrown around to clog …

Of hitting balls and falling towers… Read More »

There may not be many who have not seen, or at least heard of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, the shows created and produced by Vince Gilligan. Breaking Bad ran from 2008 to 2013, spread across 5 seasons and it’s spinoff Better Call Saul ran for longer – 6 seasons that came to an …

The end of an era… Read More »

What role does choice play in our lives? I read a book somewhere that spoke about parallel realities. Every time we are faced with a choice, we make one and our lives go forward from that point on. But there is a possibility that the other choice is also made, and reality splits there so …

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Falling sick is not anyone’s favorite hobby, but when I fall sick, a silver lining is the time I get to watch movies. And watch I do. A movie marathon with an English alternative Western – Let Him Go, followed by Master (Tamil) and then Jai Bhim. The Tamil movies were a tad longer than …

Acchoo…cough cough… Read More »

I had written this in 2020, as part of the Sādhanā series, and I don’t think I thought it would be as relevant even today. But as I spoke to my team today, I realized that it still is. The average commute to ad fro from office is at least an hour, after you factor …

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What costs US$ 168 to build? The human body, by some accounts. Actually, an episode in Nova, a science show on PBS, came up with this figure for the value of there fundamental components of the human body. Britain’s Royal Society of Chemistry, in 2013, performed a similar exercise and came up with a figure …

And this is how much you apparently cost… Read More »

Eating frogs is tough. In case you are wondering if I changed to an alternate (and alarming) diet of croakers, especially after extolling the virtues of being vegetarian, the answer is no. Eat that Frog is the title of a book by Brian Tracy, where he speaks about how to start your day with your …

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