Tag: points to ponder

  • The wisdom of surrender,

    The wisdom of surrender, The space in front of our house, had rough terrain with rocks, weeds and in the rains it had its own untamed beauty. Then came the city landscapers they flattened the rocks, placed sand, and erected play pens. Guess what, nature did not resist, in her own quiet way she emerged…

  • The paradox of the spirit.

    Prathima ek naatak—is a lovely play that I was part of.  The play opens with a poem by Vishnu Gawas, about  the symbolic journey from one to zero, at zero, the protagonist realizes, Shunya,  “me shunya, te suddha shunya,” the entire concept of purnam adam, purnam idam is discussed. As I was choreographing this, it…

  • Finding the place where you belong.

    There was this phase in my life, when I was intensely into my clinic and my home. Even those days I did read and practise my dance. Then came a phase when I balanced between my dance and clinic, I call this my rajasic phase I did lot of choreography got acknowledged for what ever…

  • On Being Mary Kom.

    “Priyanka earned much more than Mary Kom did in her entire career” the social media seem to scream. Well like Chinmayee Sumeet pointed each did their jobs and the disparity only mirrors our attitude towards the professions and not the competency of the professionals. Again as Priyanka herself pointed out, the battle that Mary Kom…

  • Authority.

    Authority If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.”  ― Tacitus I just came across this line, of course I am yet to figure out who I don’t criticise. But then it did make me think of authority. I mean “Pramaana” is the word used in the ancient texts, to authenticate…

  • Demolishing the firewall.

    Demolishing The Firewall For a longtime I felt I was dealing with anger, one day it occurred that I was in the wrong war. That is anger was not the issue resentment was. Resentment is a feeling of indignant displeasure or persistant ill will at something regarded as a wrong, insult or injury. When anger…