Category: Thoroughly Mundane
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The flow of emotions.
Bhava ganga, The Devi Bhagawatam, talks of Navadurga each aspect of Durga talking of one quality. On saptami the mother Goddess is worshiped in her form as Ganga. Ganga is also the Bhava Ganga, the flow of emotion that is so torrential and difficult to withhold, once she flows out she leaves us calm and…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The paradox of the spirit.
Prathima ek naatak—is a lovely play that I was part of. The play opens with a poem by Vishnu Gawas, about the symbolic journey from one to zero, at zero, the protagonist realizes, Shunya, “me shunya, te suddha shunya,” the entire concept of purnam adam, purnam idam is discussed. As I was choreographing this, it…
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Intention set in stones,
Prayer stone in stacks, As we cross through Gokarna, we watched master craftsmen create an idol in granite, which was no doubt beautiful but nothing really divine or drawing about it. yet these are the very idols that energizes and empowers us when it is in a temple. I found it intriguing, here on the…
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