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 […]
The fact that sleep makes us feel better and that going without sleep makes us feel worse only begins to explain why sleep might be necessary.
When love is unmotivated, then love is the greatest thing that can ever happen to anybody. Then love is simply not one of the emotions you might feel from time to time. Love is who you are.