Category: bringing up mother

  • The Safe Zone

    My nephew Sharad is extremely good with hands, and loves to fiddle around in my grandpa’s carpentry workshop. My aunt who is school teacher and I were observing him in one of his activity.  I casually mentioned, may be “Ajja should teach him carpentry”  response from aunt and my cousin’s wife so spontaneous, ”definitely not,…

  • Kid stuff

    “baccha hai” is the excuse for all irresponsible acts in our culture. Yes baccha or kid could be irresponsible, sometimes we learn from there. When we were practising Navavidha bhakti for Ashada Ekadashi at Puttaparthi, there was this little girl, who was all of 6yrs. she was to perform atmanivedhana… this was a concept that…

  • Public spaces

     A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness, bad manners, and lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, this is more significant than a riot happening. If we were go to by these symptoms we are dying. The way 12+ something’s, call them adolescents…  the language they use…

  • Lightening the Soul

    When I attended the landmark curriculum for living program one thing that I did realize that I would have issues about situations and people. Few days back I was visiting aunt Sundari, an aunt I am quite fond of, she looked out of sorts, the essence being it was her granddaughter’s birthday, and every time…

  • Raste Purana-Checklist for Road Trips

    Raste Purana or the tales of the  travel. My husband loves the drive, be it the bike, the car, or the train. I love destinations. All these years our various commitments did not let us do this. this year touché wood we are able to do what both of us like discover little known wonders…

  • Mam’s Day Gift.

    May 11th the much touted Mother’s day, I even wondered if I should gift my mother Margarita after all I would have driven her to it if we were in another social context. But what intrigued me is May 10th, where uncle Sam’s land actually had dedicated a day to see that every mother gets…