Have you tried to logically think out life situations? But your heart says something else. It can be a toss up and a situation that a lot of us may have faced at some time or the other. The proverbial heart v/s mind scenario. Over time I have realized that this situation should not be […]
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Being the Family Extra – An Open Letter to my Family
Dear Family, Recently something shook all of us up. The news was shocking and we were all very concerned for the people involved. It was sensitive and it was something that we wish never would have happened. But it did, and we were informed of it. Once being informed as part of the family we […]
Why I never wanted to say I was Spiritual
2014 for me has been a significant year. This is the year I have come out of the closet, a little. Usually people come out of the closet with socially unaccepted secrets like they are gay or are HIV +ve or some such matter. The reason they were not talking about it before is because […]
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Towards Well being: How am I? #2
I remember a conversation I had once, “How are you” Me: “I don’t know who I am, how am I supposed to figure How I am?” This is generally the truth of my life. So as you might imagine, I face many challenges with the usual social conduct norms. More and more I have found […]
Year in Review – How am I doing? #1
I started this blog with this post – How to be Awesome before 30. Yes, the title is about calling myself awesome and the fact that I reached 30, but more importantly it is an attempt at acknowledging and being grateful for some of the best things in my life. Since then this blog with […]
Turning 30 & Then
I wrote the post about being awesome before turning 30 sometime back. At the time, I thought I would also write about after turning 30. Though, I figured it should hardly matter, after all it’s just a number. I had however underestimated the psychological and probably some physiological effect of the same. Cause many things […]
Even from beauty we would all be free
A lovely poem, from Ramana Maharishi Ashram book – Day by Day with Bhagavan. It was written & then recited by a Harindranath Chattopadhyaya to Ramana… I am not generally a poem person, but this one was lovely. Typing it out here for you, The Earthen Goblet “O silent goblet! from head to heel, How […]
Michami Dukkadam – What’s this Sorry business?
Samvatsari – the most significant day for Jains. The tradition on this day is for people to fast and devote to austerities. (If you know the Jain fast, it’s pretty austere) In the evening there is a Pratikaman – guess the most significant pratikaman a Jain would do in the year. The fact that this […]
Boredom Shouldn’t Exist
The older gen is quite busy worrying and struggling. Really most of the time I find them too serious about stuff – people relations or general work wise they are too busy. The younger gen is cooler and usually having more fun except that they are usually bored. When they do get bored I am […]
How to live well till an age of 100 years
Recently I met a person (a friend of my grand-dads) whose dad died at the age of 100 years and 41 days. We were all curious to know about it. This person said that at the age of 97 or so his father had told him 5 secrets to living well till 100 years of […]