Category: Us people

  • Women Journalists of Kashmir.

    Women Journalists of Kashmir.

    Women Journalists of Kashmir. Sameer Yasir is a favourite writer of mine, and I like the way he thinks, this time round he shared the emerging women journalists of Kashmir. Here were some things that struck a chord. Emerging young women of Kashmir, something has changed in the valley, women are opting to be journalist…

  • Ethical Will-passing on values

    Long ago I had written a blog on Ethical will, an ethical will. An Ethical will (Hebrew: “Zava’ah”) is a document designed to pass ethical values from one generation to the next. Rabbis and Jewish laypeople have continued to write ethical wills during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I had found the entire concept very intriguing. I cannot find the blog…

  • OK-ate Dé-bacles

    The Dé-ly story http://www.indiatimes.com/entertainment/celebs/shobhaa-de-disapproves-of-kate-middleton-s-style-says-she-has-no-curves-to-pull-off-a-saree-253439.html this bit made a lot of stink. Well when I first read it, my response what does it matter what Kate Middleton wore or did not wear, its her wardrobe and her image. Actually I do applaud her for not trying on the Himachali cap at Simla routine our politicians dole…

  • Walking Through An Open Plan House.

    Our friend Jairam Acharya, who is an astrologer at Parkala; (he is also the in-house astrologer for ETV and runs a shows with them.) Built a house at Percale, his nephew from Bombay had been every upset that Mamaji did have a big house, with lot of rooms but no bathrooms. Now we were a…

  • The Community Garden at Taleigao

    It is such a pleasure to sink one’s hands into the warm earth to feel at one’s finger tips the possibilities of the new seasons. Growing up in rural west coast, between fields and kitchen gardens we pottered around, it helped us connect and the single greatest lesson that we learnt was that our relationship…

  • The Real Heroes

    A lofty call, how will I teach my kids to press Ctrl+S   for nature? Well I will not, teach them. Simply because kids cannot be taught, they learn through imitation. They imbibe values that we can hand them. We are destroying forests, we are destroying wild life, we have come to a stage where we…