In a moving bus a woman was raped brutally. An iron rod stuffed into her. The iron rod was at fault. The liar wrote lies. The pen is at fault. In the name of religion, people fought. The religion is at fault. Let’s wake up. Human kind has been evolving for years. For a time […]
Rambling
The Indian Toilet Syndrome & An Epidemic of Senseless Actions
I remember when I was younger, a lot of the older flats of my relatives used to have a different, unusual toilet – the squat toilet. I was staying in a newly built block and so we had the modern English toilet. The squat toilet was something odd and inconvenient. It was only after I […]
Contextual Trust
One of the things that are fundamental in life are your thoughts. And part of my spiritual journey and life is to think correctly. It means no rote repetition of what people keep saying but looking at the realities. Trust is a word often used, but mostly in a very wrong way. Starting from situations […]
Give Logic the Right Place – Heart v/s Mind Situations
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
One Blog Dies, Another one Begins
My personal blog was earlier on Posterous which has now shutdown. I did take a backup of my blogs there, *i think* but decided to start a new blog anyway because since then my thinking has changed a lot and the kind of blogs I want to write are now different. So don’t get fooled […]