Learning and Unlearning of Dr.Jekyll and Madam Hyde.
Noololyako chenni, noololyako the base voice of the singer was crooning. Asking his glamorous lady love, why doesn’t she spin? “ratiyillelo jaana ”she replies, that she needs a spinners wheel...the dialogue goes on in the nasal twang of the folk singers. Once upon a time these singers would never enter Durbar-e-khaas. But the song is …
World toilet day The UN has declared Nov.19th as the world Toilet day. We have lived and grown up with toilets, of course during our younger days when we travelled we never used public toilets since we were worried about hygiene with the advent of pay toilets those are taken care off too. The impact …
August 13th the world left handers day. I had a session with Mr.Rajesh Singh of HappinessSoulutions after the age regression was over I suddenly realized I was back to using my left hand it was so empowering. After years of trying to conform to the world’s righteous right-handedness. I remember people asking me,”are you really …
Yesterday the 19th June was the world sauntering day. I think I wrote about it last year too. Sauntering the lost art of just walking. Sauntering is a beautiful word, before long ago in the middle ages of history when people went on a pilgrimage to the Holy land, and people in the villages that …
Yesterday was world awareness to stop desertification and drought day. I do not want to lose our focus by working on the world statistics. As far as India is concerned we are at 30% of the country being threatened by droughts. The threat of the drought has moved southwards. There has been a 90% increase …
Purvaranga design for Hayavadhana https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I983pnTICw&t=22s With Girish Karnad passing away, one more pillar of the “Kattuvevu naavu hosa naad ondanu” the builders of a new nation follows. It was the sets of Utsav at Halsnaadu, it was a week of shooting. My friends and I from the popular theatre group were taken on as fillers. …
I am just back from lucknow, but kind of confused the routine has not yet set in. My sister’s grandson curls up on to my knee. “Gustavo” he said pointing at the image of a frail man, clad in an above knee dhoti the upper cloth animatedly fluttering and of course the trademark horn rim …
