Category: epiphany

  • the other…

    In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger’s embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid,…

  • Who changed me…

    My story by Kamala Das has a statement, “ask the books that I read why change. Ask the authors dead and alive who communicated with me and gave me the courage to be myself.” … Did they? I do not know, I was brought up by parents and grandparents who were voracious readers, membership to…

  • Whimsical Enchantments of an October afternoon.

    Whimsical Enchantments of an October afternoon.

    Urmila sat, on the bench, looked around, the October sunshine seem to bathe the park with such melting light that it had the dim impressive look of a landscape by an old master. Life and existence a never ending cycle, a new season comes and the old one passes by. We myriad experiences that become…

  • The Reaction reason.

    Anvi was part of the forum, as she was dealing with tobacco issues. As the conversations and counselling went out, what appeared in her space was as child she and two of her male cousins had played havoc in a room, they had actually ripped a pillow open. Her grandfather entered the room, saw the…

  • Finding the answers within

    The conference of birds is a lovely book, where this bird goes in search of the divine, only to find it within itself. Somewhere our fundamental questions of life are the same, we are looking for answers without.  When I say answers outside it is not about question and answer sessions but issues that we…

  • Attaching meaning

    At the Landmark Education forum we were made aware that events just occur, the meaning we attach to it influences the quality of our life.  And the meaning we attach to events we choose to call our voice of reason. When we experience something, we tend to assign a meaning to it, we could call…