trip to mumbai

This year I think I can relate more to Christmas than ever before… There are two fascinating short stories that may not take more than a few minutes, but are more than worth your time… One is a real life story: For the Man Who Hated Christmas The other is a simple fable…  and though its…

[Had written this earlier, but could not post] I was quite curious about what the fuss was all about (I liked an article in the newspaper that said that true lovers would do on Valentine’s day what they’d do on any other day!) Googled to discover that St. Valentine was a great saint of pure…

PA140030 Originally uploaded by common man. This phenomenal event where a huge ball of fire rises across the horizon occurs at around 6 every morning… 😉

Some readers have emailed asking about the unavailability of this website… This is a site hosted by the kind generosity of JD, and its being hosted on the server weblogs.us. The intermittent unavailability (and sometimes its intermittent availability 😉 ) is because the server is facing several spam attacks as described on its home page.

Off late I just haven’t been able to make the time for blogging – it seems surprisingly elusive! I have a lot of things in queue but somehow the queue is just becoming longer! Also I’m trying to be more of a reader nowadays than a writer, and have been reading other’s blogs/comments (many that…

My (cousin) brother visiting from Australia wanted to see the Osho home opposite to Chitrakala Parishat, Kumara Krupa Road. So I’d also had accompanied him out of curiosity. It was quite nice, a very pretty building with many books and audio material, a small meditation hall. Some of the facilities/events free for all, and some…