Category: Thoroughly Mundane

  • ‘Oo Needs Buckshee Press Anyway?

    May 3rd heralds the world free press day. The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist, the courage of a rat, the fairness of a prohibitionist boob-jumper, the information of a high school janitor, the taste of a designer of celluloid valentines and the honour of a police…

  • Hotwatah and deep kip. Don’t you know?

    Reborn each day with hot water There was CHAOS in my life, that is Can’t Have Anyone Over Syndrome. Then came the house-fairy, she weeded, prodded and brought me into routine. Hell with traditions and superstitions, but my housework happens in the evening at 6.30pm after I return from work. A warm cup of coffee…

  • a sacred sanctuary.

    What would my dream library look like? J you could not ask for a more perfect question. I was brought up in family where the study was a sanctuary where we went to sharpen our mind or lick our wounds. After all the perfect tranquillity in life, is found nowhere else but in a retreat,…

  • Outflow

    One thing I really like about the tradition of Devi Bhagavatam or the Shakti cult is the fundamental belief that  everything in the universe is energy and since energy is dynamic energy is feminine. Many of us do give, old clothes, and unwanted to things. Some of us even donate money or help others, but…

  • creating a hindu

    Histography? Is a historian looking at history. When we look at history it is important to know who is telling the story. That is whose point of view are we speaking? History is also how people look at themselves.  How did the Indians write their history? They wrote is just the way British wrote it.…

  • sati-parampara

    Like my standard refrain, the “sati” that seems to be the burning problem of India… so what is this all about… The Sati has come in honour of the goddess Sati, who jumped into the sacrificial fire as she could not bear her father insulting her husband Shiva. The word originally was used to mean…