Category: Thoroughly Mundane

  • Walking Through An Open Plan House.

    Our friend Jairam Acharya, who is an astrologer at Parkala; (he is also the in-house astrologer for ETV and runs a shows with them.) Built a house at Percale, his nephew from Bombay had been every upset that Mamaji did have a big house, with lot of rooms but no bathrooms. Now we were a…

  • Chaitra Shukla Padya.

    Chaitra Shukla Padya.

    The first day of the brand new calendar year is  an empowered time to psychologically unwind to mentally find ones own life charged emotionally with refined energy and enthusiasm to create a beautiful growth paradigm within the physically defined laws of nature and rules of the game called LIFE. Today is the onset of new…

  • A Journey to Epiphany.

    A Journey to Epiphany.

    This trip seems to be doomed one of those things when life decides to make things uncomfortable for you. My journey from Goa to Bombay was pits, enough from to invoke the Egyptian god of creation and say,”Ptah” next day I was so exhausted that all that I did was to sleep, that in turn…

  • In the Quest of Happiness

      #Happiness, What does happiness mean to me? do I go looking for happiness? Let me answer the second question first, no i do not go looking for happiness.  There is an interesting quote from Abraham Lincoln which I really like “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”…

  • Who does the laundry?

    Bring up Bachelors… ‘Mom! Where are my fresh socks?’ ‘Didi! Why didn’t you scrub my shirt’s collar? It’s still grimy!’ ‘Dad! If you see mom ask her to keep my football uniform ready, I need it tomorrow!’ #ShareTheLoad the conversations quotes above have never happened in my house. be at my parents or at my…

  • Lets Wash The Dirty Linen.

    #ShareTheLoad “Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present … Eating, sleeping, cleaning – the years no longer rise…