Tag: points to ponder

  • A Wish the magic of the mind

    A Magical Mind. Last evening we were planning to go out, and I was hoping it won’t rain. Then I did something very childish, I crossed my fingers promising to open it only when I returned. As kids whenever we had a secret wish, we would cross our fingers and of course not tell it…

  • The time of my life, learning to slow down

    Yesterday was Guru-Purnima, and I recollect the last Guru Purnima, that I spent with my spiritual Guru. She smiled and invited me in, “come in my Rewa” I am contemplating on water,” she said, “when you came in I was thinking of the river Narmada” well experience taught me, there was more to come, “when…

  • Finding the freedom in say No…

    I have always had issues in saying no to certain people, I would oblige with so much of anger and resentment. But saying No was a No-NO, even to the day despite my age and physical challenges I find it impossible to say no, be it telling my kids to wake up on their own,…

  • Making life mine,

    Sometimes a simple shift in attitude helps us recognize so much for fulfillment in every event. Here was a person in my space, a fair good writer, she was acknowledged for her work. During her awards ceremony her mother observed”haa now you have to be careful. Once people give you an award you cannot let…

  • ‘Oo Needs Buckshee Press Anyway?

    May 3rd heralds the world free press day. The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist, the courage of a rat, the fairness of a prohibitionist boob-jumper, the information of a high school janitor, the taste of a designer of celluloid valentines and the honour of a police…

  • My middle class Apathy withstands ….

    It was my Middle class Apathy vs. Harsh Mander’s reclaiming governance for the poor, As a part of International centre’s series on good governance Harsh Mander ex-bureaucrat, novelist and a social—what shall call him activist came to deliver a talk, he was to talk on reclaiming the governance  for the poor, looked like he got…