Parwatisingari's Weblog

Category: Rhythm Indiana

  • How I Define Romance

    Walking in the Rain What does Romance mean to me? What a question. Indian classical theatre and bharatnatyam calls romance as sringara, the capacity to see beauty or be fascinated. This is the underlying emotion of all creation. Even if you were repulsed by something, it would have a hypnotising effect on you. This is…

  • Go fly kites.

    when winter is an illusion what sport could we have. Kite in the sky winter sports? what winter? the maximum we can do is dolphin sighting. Of course as the winter wanes we have the Kite festival on Makara sankranti that's quite fun.

  • 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…