Category: Thoroughly Mundane
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Choosing Not To Look Away
Choosing not to look away, Last Sunday Janet Attwood was at Goa, she gave us the passion test, and my partner was a young boy in standard eight. One of his passions was to Help The Homeless. I was quite amused. Yet here is what he had to share. “They are not there because they…
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A Wish the magic of the mind
A Magical Mind. Last evening we were planning to go out, and I was hoping it won’t rain. Then I did something very childish, I crossed my fingers promising to open it only when I returned. As kids whenever we had a secret wish, we would cross our fingers and of course not tell it…
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The Black checklist
Being Black. Black the integral part of life. Black the colour of coal, ebony and the unknown. The darkest colour this could be either due to the absence of light or due to total absorption of light. So much so we have a saying in Kannada that says,”yella banna masi nungitu” that translates to the…
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Universal Vibration.
Sound healing. The rustling of leaves, sounded so interesting, that I focused on it, a few minutes later I realized that the rhythm of the leaves rustling and my breath were in a synchrony. As was the drone of the bee that buzz by. The next experience was that of being part of the infinite.…
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Filling an imaginary void
Prajyot Mayemkar the CEO of Androcid and a leader in the Goa android movement was helping me buy netbook. He was very considerate to an illiterate senior but one thing that he told me at the end of the conversation remained “See, all these gizmo’s have a life span of max 5yrs. But the minute…
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Crowd Fragrance
Aer –Godrej… A lingering fragrance for 45 days. But a good fragrance is really a powerful cocktail of memories and emotions. There is a fragrance in the air that triggers a certain memory like a passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the pages of a book the sound of somebody’s voice…
