Tag: belief system

  • Morning dew

    Morning dew Udayaachaladalli Ravi baruva chinne Aruna chavi… The Goddess of night slowly recedes, handing us over to the gentle care of Usha, the day break who prepares us for the arrival Aruna, the legless charioteer of Suryanarayana the Sun God. One of my favourite poems, it is also my favourite time of the day,…

  • No wrong response

    When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or right. Black or white. Now that I am an adult, I have put childish things aside and now I know that some things fall into wrong and some things fall into right. Some things are categorized…

  • Elephants can remember,

    Ah! I am only elephantine, and not an elephant. It was a family get together a cousin of my mother had come down after donkey’s years, okay I’ll cut the excuses I could not recognize her. How many times have we been there and paid the price for it? When it is a name it…

  • The snake

    a legend that links our family to snakes Snake God,Bhagamandalam,Coorg it was mid 1991, I was carrying my first child. we were new to the town and we had telephone. At about 12 midnight, I started feeling suffocated I was drifting on and off into sleep and dream state, when saw this beautiful golden snake,…