न पुण्यं न पापं न सौख्यं न दुःखं न मन्त्रो न तीर्थं न वेदा न यज्ञाः । अहं भोजनं नैव भोज्यं न भोक्ता चिदानन्दरूपः शिवोऽहम् शिवोऽहम् ।। About a year back, I had written about the Nirvana Śhatakam. Today, I stumbled upon another poem, which isn’t anywhere in the same category or depth, but still carries a good message. Who am I you may well askI really wish I knewIf I am not myself at all Then maybe …
We did a lot of rounds today. My friend is looking for a house to shift into, and so we grabbed a list from Nakheel and made our way to Discovery Gardens and The Gardens. A lot of houses to view, and a whole lot of navigation to sort out. Somehow, all the lanes in …
Am on the topic of blockchain, since I have been reading extensively about it. As I was getting ready to write today, I chanced upon a news clipping that said that the government was holding a critical meeting on bitcoin and blockchain-related scams that have been circulating recently. On one side there is the crypto …
Came across something today. Those from the 90s and before will surely recognize this. Called “orange mittai”, these sugar candies were (and still are) the tastiest among the simple candy options that we had when we were growing up. One could get these for a ridiculously low amount of money (I guess they were 5 …
Two pieces of news have been making me think. One – the T20 Cricket World Cup that is close to conclusion. When it started, India were hot favorites (or at least some said so) and the first match against Pakistan was to be a formality – an exercise in continuing the humiliation that the Pakistanis …
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 …
