Category: Arouz

  • country mouse

    I rather gnaw bran than gnawed by fear What would I prefer the city or the country? Remember the fable we heard as kids? The country mouse and the town mouse. A town mouse or shall we say city mouse here, visits the country mouse. The country mouse treats him to the standard country fare…

  • Sita-Ahalya-Tadaka

    The Ramayana talks of three women. Tadaka she was killed by Rama Ahalya was supposed to have been redeemed by Rama Sita the spouse. Somewhere these women are not given their due. No matter what symbolization or explanation we give it is only a document of power play and oppression. Assuming that Ramayana is a…

  • Animus Liger

    Born in a tiger territory with Leonine instincts I must be the animus of a Liger. Liger We are told that we carry forward Karmic memory, and I have an astrological period called the Gaja-Kesari yoga, or the period of the elephant and and lion. considering that i am elephantine in my structure, I guess…

  • Poseidon strikes back.

    within infinite myths lies the eternal truth, who sees it all? Varun has but a thousand eyes. Poseidon rising If there is one thing I would like to change in this world it would be mad world of construction. Houses being bought as investments, leading to land encroachment, forest poaching, asphyxiation of the rivers. When…

  • surgeon and his scalpel

    What makes me nervous, such that break into sweat and get palpitations. Viking warrior? Greek God? Uncle Vanya? Remember the Vikings who came to learn the meaning of fear. Well nervousness is the labour pains of fear, or shall say it’s the other way round. My knees shake and I get palpitations but the situations…

  • Country roads take me home.

    Home is where the hearth, heals. Home is where the hearth, is – A jataka tale talks of a fishmonging woman who visits her friend. Her friend honours her with a room, with fragrant flowers, but the fishmonging woman could not sleep she needed the smell of fish. Hearth of warmth, a comfort zone where…