Category: epiphany

  • 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…

  • Echo’s of power, the sacred vows,

    Ecof power, the sacred vows, Tulasi Ramayan has a line about the illustrious Raghuvansha, Pranjaye par vachan nahi. How much of it was honoured by the Raghnuvanshi’s is another conversation. But actually a promise made , a sacred vow,  once spoken becomes part of our existence for ever more. Speech is a vehicle for vows,…

  • Finding the deep strength.

    Being tossed into the sea by a overturned boat, Dating the crab briefly Having a thrust with burns, An ankle crushed Appendix extracted. Being the resident muse of the gossiping town. The butt of venomous aunt’s tongue. My life has been adventurous, times of absolute low. Yet when I look i did survive those trials…

  • No wrong response

    When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or right. Black or white. Now that I am an adult, I have put childish things aside and now I know that some things fall into wrong and some things fall into right. Some things are categorized…

  • When the world falls apart

    Home is where you go to find solace from the ever changing chaos, to find love within the confines of a heartless world, and to be reminded that no matter how far you wander, there will always be something waiting when you return.” ― Kendal Rob When My World Fell Apart The first time I could…

  • why not now?

    Whenever I had a new sari, I would keep it in, and save it to be draped for the first time. there were times when in an emergency I would gift the sari away to someone else and tell myself,”Khane wall eke naam dhane dhane pe likah hai.” Then my world began to crack, I…