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 …
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 …
