And we enter the season of festivals. The next one and a half months will be a roller coaster ride of fun, frolic, fasting and worship. Starting with Mahalaya today, Navratri tomorrowh, and nine days of fasting and resetting the body and mind, and visiting Gayatri’s place to see the golu arrangements. Dussehra and Vijayadashami …
Read this somewhere… The thing that gives people courage is ideas. And it is not only courage that comes from ideas; it is determination; it is the power to act, the power to go on acting coherently. For though it is true that most ideas are the rationalizations of feelings, that does not mean that …
More than four years back, this is the blog that started it all. 2009 days later – still going strong! As I move towards half a decade of remote work (September 2025), I will reflect on the years gone by, and boy have they gone by so fast! I hope to review how our decision …
Reading a Hindu calendar can be complex, especially for beginners. So here is a quick guide, just for you! Start with a Panchāngam – Drink Panchang is a good option. It has an app and a website – so take your pick. Let’s assume that you are using the app. Ensure that the location is …
While we normally follow the Gregorian calendar in our daily lives, the Panchāngam holds a special significance. The Gregorian is quite arbitrary, with months having 30 or 31 days with no apparent logic, and the New Year coming in on 1st of January – a happy occasion bang in the middle of winter. By the …
When we were kids in the back yardPlaying astronauts and rock starsNo one told us to stop itCalled us unrealistic Then suddenly you’re eighteenGo to college for your Plan BWhat you want is too riskyLive for weekends and whiskey We all got these big ideas One day they’re replaced with fearsHow did we get here?Darlin’ …
कथामुखं The introduction In a city called Mahilaropya, very far away from here, lived a king named Amarashakti (the ever-powerful). He took very good care of his kingdom and his subjects, and was loved and revered by all. He was a master of all the sciences and the art of politics and negotiations, of ethics …
Nowadays, as Rohāmrta says papa papa papa, I recall the day he started to say da-da-da-da. At that time, I thought he would be quite conversational with me by now, but apparently kids take a bit more time to start speaking in regular coherence, so well, typical first-time-dad issues. Nevertheless, I did go back and …
Today, I took Keshav to the bookstore – one of his more favorite trips. We spent around an hour browsing – he selected some books – I did as well (mostly his). He also sat and read some, quietly, sometimes edited, but with a discipline that kind of astonishes me at times. At the end …
Time that runs away! Ricardo Gondim I counted my years and found that I will have less time to live from now on than I have lived until now. I feel like that boy who was given a bowl of fruits. The first ones, he sucked carelessly, but realizing that there are few left, he gnaws the kernel. …
