Category: Us people

  • Thoku Emong — a festival of gratitude.

    Thoku Emong — a festival of gratitude.

    Most folk festivals are about gratitude, and thanks giving. So is the Lothas Naga festival of Thoku Emong. Thoku means feast, and Emong is halt. The festival is celebrated by the Naga Lothas tribe in the first week of November. The government however has currently declared 6th– 7th of November as the festival days though…

  • Pondering over Dwaita Philosophy and Kanakadasa.

    Pondering over Dwaita Philosophy and Kanakadasa.

    The Lord of Udupi is trapped within the temple , his devotee is trapped in a cell outside. People throng, gone are the days where in the open corridors of temple sat genteel women stringing flowers and singing devaranama.  Beside it was the place where the swamiji from one of the ashtamatta would be rendering…

  • Why Gratitude is So Necessary

    Why Gratitude is So Necessary

    “She was never there when I needed her.” “Everyday it was roti sabzi,  in the lunch box, or for dinner. I had to throw sever tantrums for her to give me cakes or biscuits.” Swara’s complaints about her mother went on. Swara only seem to see the lack…lack of time that her mother gave her.…

  • An Insight to Stuttering.

    An Insight to Stuttering.

    October 22nd is International Stuttering awareness Day. In the Hindi movie scenario, the stuttering hero is either “oh! so cute” or “Oh! so funny.” But believe me in real life it is “Oh! so embarrassing ” or “a panic attack.” So what is stuttering? It is a communication disorder where the flow of speech is…

  • Toast to the world’s first programmer.

    Toast to the world’s first programmer.

    My workspace seemed to filled with IT personal and people speaking of AI for while I assumed AI was Air-India then I learnt it was artificial intelligence. I am told by these kids who create computer programs that computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no…

  • Baba Budan Saheb the Patron Saint of Cafficionado

    Baba Budan Saheb the Patron Saint of Cafficionado

    Marie Von Tropp finds it easy to say let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start with. Obviously she does not know, coffee is the right place to start with. With the wafting fragrance of coffee, the day begins and as the coffee falls into the stomach it triggers a commotions.…