Nature’s soft nurse… Yes, borrowed from Shakespeare it is.. the great litterateur too extolled the virtues of this very important aspect of a living being’s life. For now, I am going to only focus on the homo sapiens.. much as I would love to be broader on coverage. Volumes written by experts, talks given by […]
So birthday week had begun and the question from birthday boy was on why the celebrations weren’t initiated yet.. well, I have no one but me to blame for this expectation to have taken root. You see, deep into the nationwide lockdown, when none except essential services were to venture out, was my little one’s […]
Music it was to my ears… or so I thought… until it was obvious that this wasn’t from the great ghazal maestro’s collection but a jarring Indipop number! The issue wasn’t the genre… the issue was the romance that I anticipated as the rendition began, having been slowly, agonizingly smothered. Well, lyrics was never a […]
In fact I couldn’t understand (and maybe still don’t) what was so depressing for everyone… yes it did take some effort to get used to not being able to leave your floor (thankfully we had the whole floor to ourselves with a lovely balcony and also a terrace garden!) People were wondering how they would […]
The other day at dinner, an Iyengar friend of mine asked me if I have tasted the award winning German beer, Ayinger. I had not. So that was an opening for him to tell me condescendingly , “Listen, buddy, the Iyengar you drink, the Iyer you go”. I could not resist responding with the repartee, […]
Use mindfulness to your advantage. If you’re in a work meeting and someone insults your idea. Asserting yourself makes you feel better, even if you’re in an unhappy situation.
While working through our life, doing our daily routine, tending to mundane; we tend to forget the basic requirement of a happy and fulfilled life.
Utterly thrilled and blessed I came out of the Woodland Apartment and found the whole of Bombay celebrating…dum dum dum loud drum-beats. People were carrying Lord Ganesha idols and there were processions after processions–very crazy and very colourful.
I found myself dancing with them–I had met the ultimate in human form and my happiness knew no bounds.
Letting a tear or two roll down isn’t so bad. Let’s see why!
Besides a large-scale misery for millions of people all over the world, COVID-19 has brought out a certain kind of herd mentality on the surface which is often hidden deep within. The herd mentality is purely instinctual, dominated by fear, a sense of insecurity, and it reacts aggressively as animals do when they fear some […]