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  • A city moans

    Just back from Mumbai, I left for Mumbai the day BalaSaheb passed away, being aware of the fact.  My daughters were a bit worried. My coach Gopal was very confident that people respected Balasaheb too much to misbehave and the town would be peaceful. The bus driver refused to enter the city Mumbai, I mean…

  • Kashmir News from Samir

    Originally posted on The Sameer Yasir Work(s). : Sameer Yasir The haze had covered the northern edge of Tchahl village. A little away from a cricket ground, three men in their 60s, sat on a nearby rock patiently looking at Atta Mohammad Khan, the gravedigger. A few policemen were watching him dig a grave for…

  • Three tree

    The number three always fascinated Akshar, the primordial triangle emerging from the union of oneness and duality.  The magic of three seem to emerge everywhere. The Hindu thought talks of Kaya, vaacha, manasa, the body mind and soul, the Vedic Gods, Agni vayu varuna, the fire air and water, the later hindu icons Brahma Vishnu…

  • Jayadeva and my grandmother.

    SriVee was busy with his discourse. The ethos of bhakti, how the devotee saw his Lord everywhere. That the Lord resided in everyone, so all creatures were equal. Akshara was listening to the stock stories of shabari, shankaracharya all twisted to fit into the listening that SriVee was creating. Then came the story of the…

  • work the plan

    Yash chopra is no more. May he rest in peace. What reminded me of him, is what people have to say about him is the infalliable way he worked. Apparently he had a story that he wanted to tell. He decided that he would tell it on a date, that would be the day of…

  • Mentoring,

    A great concept at toastmasters. I was all fired by it, until I thought let me see what actually is the onus of mentoring. The dictionary calls Mentor (capitalized) as a friend of Odysseus, entrusted with the education of Odysseus son Telemachus, it has come to mean a trusted counsellor or guide, a tutor, coach…

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