Category: The Great Connect
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Broadcasting….
Do I ever listen to Radio anymore? Asks Plinky. Of course Not voluntarily, but out of compulsion as my husband has tuned in to FM radio. We get some channels called RadioMirchi and 98.something FM. They have idiotic RJ’s presenting cacophony passed off as music. Radio news is only bearable since there are no visuals…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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