Category: Thoroughly Mundane

  • About Kotak Jifi and Khyati.

    Kotak jifi is here…. Curious, “World’s first socially powered bank” curriouser… if I may quote Carroll Lewis. Socially powered bank somehow created an image of the famous direct marketing paradigm, I started having visions of my best friend turning up at my door step and showing me the plan for the “product.” I thought let…

  • Making life mine,

    Sometimes a simple shift in attitude helps us recognize so much for fulfillment in every event. Here was a person in my space, a fair good writer, she was acknowledged for her work. During her awards ceremony her mother observed”haa now you have to be careful. Once people give you an award you cannot let…

  • City Energies

    City energies. Coming from a semi urban background, for me large cities are extremely draining. I kept wondering how does one get to harmony. In an idiotic movie called Fanaa I heard a profound statement, every city has as a soul. Musing over it, Mumbai has a different rhythm from Delhi in the north or Chennai…

  • About — AD….

    It was one afternoon, when my daughter who was reading a book, asked me what does in year circa  … something meant. I told her it meant so many years after Christ. That’s when Aunt Vimala asked me,  are you sure? Well I was not, when Aunt Vimala wags a finger the tough get shaken. So…

  • worship of lakshmi

    worship of lakshmi some musing from the vishnu purana, about the worship of Lakshmi

  • Srisuktam and Akshaya Trithya.

    Srisuktam and Akshaya Trithya. The festival of Akshaya Trithya symbolically welcomes abundance into life. This abundance is family focused, and creates richness of relationship, food, and wealth. The Brighu Purana states the worship on Lakshmi on Akshaya Trithya helps to overcome the insecurities that we harbour within us and achieve peace and prosperity. The Phala…