(re)discovers nature…
We begin this New Year with dampened enthusiasm and dented optimism. Our happiness is diluted and our peace is threatened by the financial illness that has infected our families, organizations and nations. Everyone is desperate to find a remedy that will cure their financial illness and help them recover their financial health. They expect the [...]
Its not uncommon to see vehicles on Bangalore roads, typically autorickshaws, leaving a trail of billowing smoke, as if they were one of those sky-writing planes, road-writing some message on the road especially by the convoluted way they drive. Whenever feasible, I try to talk to them about it. I don’t have much of an [...]
History was one of my most boring subjects in school. It was mainly because I had to memorise so many dates and events and names and so on, I never understood what the point was when it had all got over long ago. Of course some of the stories were interesting, but overall it was [...]
Recently I was watching Bombay, a top class movie (directed by Mani Ratnam) based on the communal riots in Mumbai after the shameful Babri Masjid demolition, a dark scar in our nation’s history. The year 1995 when this movie was released was a nice era when though I was in engineering college, we school friends [...]
sulochanosho’s striking post Dead Scripture and Live Nature reminds us about learning from live nature… but most of the time we miss this, like this guy in this story from Paulo Coelho’s short stories for parents and grand parents… A Sufi master and his disciple were walking across a desert in Africa. When night fell, they [...]
I watched the gorilla’s eyes again, wise and knowing eyes, and wondered about this business of trying to teach apes language. Our language. Why? There are many members of our own species who live in and with the forest and know it and understand it. We don’t listen to them. What is there to suggest [...]
Saw this on onion… New Wearable Feedbags Let Americans Eat More, Move Less For those not familiar with Onion, its a really funny satirical look at the world… its comedy but with some background of truth in it… this particular one reminded me of the link between multitasking and absentmindedness… (absentmindedness has reduced for me [...]
TAKEN FROM “WAKE-UP CALLS WRITTEN BY JERRY JAMPOLSKY, M.D. AND DIANE CIRINCIONE, PH.D. 1. TO BE AWAKE IS TO KNOW THAT WE WERE NEVER SEPARATE 2. NO ONE EVER TOLD US WHEN WE WERE BORN THAT “HANGING LOOSE” OR BEING “UPTIGHT” WAS A CHOICE 3. IF HEARTS WERE MORE OPEN TO LOVE, WE WOULD HAVE [...]
Usually in the West we see everyone forming a disciplined queue, whereas in India even for a plate of idli in a self-serviced cafe, its not unusual to find people crowding around the counter, elbowing each other out as if there was some impending famine and its some urgent fight for survival for the last [...]
Wonder what is happening in this patch on the globe called Pakistan. With all due respect to the Pakistanis I’ve met in person during my foreign trips who have all been really nice friends, going by the news, there seem to be so many armed and dangerous segments of its society that generally seem to [...]