Parwatisingari's Weblog

Category: Rhythm Indiana

  • Backing Sumitra Kamble.

    Sumitra Kamble–http://milaap.org/fund/sumitra-kamble-and-group/2037 Sumitra Kamble is a resident of Ghataprabha in Belgaum district like other former Devadasi women, unschooled; illiterate she sustains her family by raising buffaloes. This makes ends meet, sending her two children to school, but that is a challenge in itself. Sometimes she gets anxious for any new challenge would be a financial…

  • random thoughts on dharma

    Dharmasya charnam shreyah Dharmajnam tu dushkrama. The good and righteous follow the dharma but it is difficult to know what the dharma is. The keeper of dharma tend to become self righteous  such men are known as dharmadwaja these people on the face of it are vociferous keepers of dharma but their rigidity gives rise…

  • WITH BIRESWAR BHATTACHARJEE & SHAMBHAVI SINGH

    WITH BIRESWAR BHATTACHARJEE & SHAMBHAVI SINGH  Among the many plays Bhikari Thakur wrote,  ‘Putrabadh’  or ‘Murder of a Son’  and ‘Bidesiya’ or ‘Foreigner’ act as epics that help deal with the dilemma of migration. One might find fault in the cultivation of the two cash crops – indigo and poppy that resulted in the recurring famines…

  • The mango flavour.

    It was the alumni weekend at manipal I met a friend who had done her engineering from KREC and currently resides abroad. She was appreciating how focused her class fellows had become. She was impressed that they were planning their kid’s studies undergraduate at that abroad, albeit with one person it was Ireland. No offense…

  • Issue challenged,

    It is politically incorrect to say, “Mentally retarded” we say “mentally challenged” like I am vertically and horizontally challenged, TOI is issue challenged, or is very picky about it readers… This morning I did something which I rarely do, that reading the TOI I am amazed at the mundane matters that it perceives newsworthy! When…

  • Tale of the brothers– ramakatha

    Ramakatha. North Indian houses, believe that Ramayana should be read in the house, as it is a tale of brothers bonding but not Mahabharata. Ramayana is indeed a tale of brothers, Ravana–Kubera Ravana-Kumbhakarana Ravana- vibhishana Vali – sugriva Jatayu-Sampati Rama–Lakshmana Rama-Bharat. Somewhere in this annals poor shatrughna stays forgotten. The Ramayana of uttarkhand talks of…