Learning and Unlearning of Dr.Jekyll and Madam Hyde.
Means Of Wisdom Ato vimuktyai prayateta vidvan,samnyastabahyarthakukhapprahsan Santam,mahatma sampetya kesikam tenopadistarthasamhitama(8) In the 8-13 verse of Viveka Chudamani, Sri Adi Shankaracharya talks about the path self realization. He says self realization is not a casual jaunt. An adept has to be a seeker on a quest. His teacher has to be a ‘Santam’. The word …
Most folk festivals are about gratitude, and thanks giving. So is the Lothas Naga festival of Thoku Emong. Thoku means feast, and Emong is halt. The festival is celebrated by the Naga Lothas tribe in the first week of November. The government however has currently declared 6th- 7th of November as the festival days though …
The Lord of Udupi is trapped within the temple , his devotee is trapped in a cell outside. People throng, gone are the days where in the open corridors of temple sat genteel women stringing flowers and singing devaranama. Beside it was the place where the swamiji from one of the ashtamatta would be rendering …
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I am looking at this movie called the Jaguar, a Telgu movie dubbed by goldmines production. The way Ramya pats herself on the back for son’s serial killing. The law enforcement agencies do not hold him accountable for the serial killing, instead the public is rooting for him, and after all he avenged his father’s …
Long ago when I was still active on Sulekha.com, I was to choreograph for the play Nagananda; I put my thoughts down and created a blog. After I published the blog, many of my fellow bloggers gave me their comments and inputs it was amazing. That was the time I discovered the power of blogging …
Purba Ray tweeted, that Padmawati was Padwaiting... But Padmawaiting is present continuous tense , we are dealing with past confused and tense. It was so confusing! Forget the second cup of coffee; even Google Mata is not able to sift the facts. My own information herding begins with an encounter with Rani Padmini once a …
