Tag: Manipal
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The walled Gods
“Bai, me vikatgetle shaam” is a popular Marathi Bhajan, I always use this to express absurdity, at the end of the day how can one buy God? It has been one of my biggest grouses about Tirupathi, and following its example Dharmasthala,kollur, and now Udupi. — the , system the token for darshana, and now the paid darshana.…
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Deepavali-Campus and crackers.
Deepavali— https://www.gharwalidiwali.com/ This is my tribute to Dr.Venugopal who ensured that we had a great time during deepavali. Jyotsna, Aruna, Anand, Arvind, Anupa, Geeta isaac, Krishna,Sundar and Biju who were all part of the baccha brigade. Banditu deepavali,siri sobaganu pasarisi lokava belagatali. The lamps that light the kartika masa, the cool breeze of the oncoming winter there…
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home base
It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown. Daryl Hannah What i love about my hometown is the extended sense of family. The very thing I ran away from. Everyone knows everyone. If they do not then they try to. I grew…
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A ghost from the past
An encounter of the unexpected kind. School girl 22nd November 2011, A friend of mine invited me to be the examiner for her students who were appearing the dance exams. The kids were done and over with, when the women came in. The face looked familiar, her name Bhagawati Bhat it rang a bell somewhere.…
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fragrance of friendship
Friends are people who stick by you thick or thin, sick or sin. In the era of social networking befriending has given way to friending and unfriending, the friend that I regret not keeping in touch, sounds strange, in any case she is not recognizable on facebook. She befriended me when I was the new…
