Parwatisingari's Weblog

Category: Us people

  • Kid stuff

    “baccha hai” is the excuse for all irresponsible acts in our culture. Yes baccha or kid could be irresponsible, sometimes we learn from there. When we were practising Navavidha bhakti for Ashada Ekadashi at Puttaparthi, there was this little girl, who was all of 6yrs. she was to perform atmanivedhana… this was a concept that…

  • Travel Etiquette,

    The Goa express is late as usual. The schedule arrival time being 4.20pm flashes on the Pune Junction display board, its 4.20 the platform is not yet announced. Neither has the Indian railways been kind enough to tell us that the train is delayed. Anyway at 5.20 the train chugs in, and we get in.…

  • Put Em-Rights.

    Put Em-Right was a book written by Enid Blyton, where a bunch of kids went around correcting people eventually discovering that their very behavior was judgemental and obnoxious. Vatsala’s brother translated a classic text of an ancient language to English, he was very clear it was a rendering and not a translation. Yet, Vatsala took the trouble…

  • At the Museum.

    Somewhere the definition  of public spaces and private seems does not seem exist in our culture. I am not talking about the shomeall social network nurtured culture. I am talking of people who in their 50’s too. Just look at our temples, we are so noisy so crude and me first. we don’t even attempt…

  • Public spaces

     A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness, bad manners, and lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, this is more significant than a riot happening. If we were go to by these symptoms we are dying. The way 12+ something’s, call them adolescents…  the language they use…

  • NaMo Namasmaranam…

    Of the Navavidha Bhakti, naamasmaranam  is one, and Ravana .was declared a Ram Bhakt because he  kept thinking of Ram even though it was to plot his down fall. Each time I read such venomous hatred against BJP or Modi I am reminded of this. Whatever our individual opinion of the party, we need to…