Parwatisingari's Weblog

Category: Rhythm Indiana

  • Holiday Traditions

    Holidays are fixed sometimes by the constitution and sometimes by cultural traditions when routine work is suspended. Traditions are customs and stories handed down from generation to generation. As a child the greatest of holiday tradition was the one that arrived bang on the middle of rains, the birth of Lord Krishna celebrated in my…

  • Sri Lakshmi the goddess of material abundance

    wealth is abundance. Quickie darshan Wealth to me is abudance. Wealth is something that will give me choices. I will not be limited by resources. It could be abundance in any form. The hindu mythology personifies this abundance as Goddess Lakshmi. The most popular image of Goddess Lakshmi is of abudance of material wealth. The…

  • 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…

  • Jarjara– the arbor Mundi

    Great aunt Kittadoddamma had her favourite narration of the samudra manthan and how the vatavriskha and the Kalpataru came out of it. She would explain to us how the Kalpataru was bejewelled and rich. As usual Param-ajja would snort and he would tell us that the kalpataru was nothing but the coconut tree which contributed…

  • Natyashastra — text of the art of Indian dramaturgy

    The art of Indian dramaturgy. In sound through music In body through dance In words through poetry In space through architecture In form through sculpture In thought through mathematics A person can experience the divine. —- This is a quote from Shilpa Shastra the ancient text of Hindu architecture. To me the classical and the…

  • Parijata

    Adansona digitata is the botanical name of this flower. Parijata is what my grandmother called it. Prajukta, shefali, shagufta call it any name. Beautiful white with a coral orange stalk. I am seeing this after nearly twenty two years. When I set my eyes on this I am back to my child hood. Though then…