Tag: udupi

  • Deepavali-Campus and crackers.

    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…

  • Tirtha Yatra – Visiting Sacred Sites.

    The Spirit Of a Place. ಯಾವ ಮೋಹನ ಮುರಳಿ ಕರೆಯಿತು ದೂರ ತೀರಕೆ ನಿನ್ನನುಯಾವ್ ಬೃಂದಾವನವು ಚಾಚಿತು ತನ್ನ ಮಿಂಚಿನ ಕೈಯನು? What enchanting music is it that draws you to distant shores? which entycing land is that beckons you?– a favorite poem of mine Selva, like many people, he had visions he was embarrassed to share  with  others, until the…

  • Uplifting Showers

    Uplifting showers. Its pouring quite heavily though not the blanket of torrential rains of my childhood but incessant. The weather is damp and wet outside. Can you imagine the loveliness of being warm snug inside the house when the weather out is cold and damp? Storms and rains literally change the energy in the air…

  • Karavali– to–Konkan

    Last week-end our road trip was to Udupi and back. Some things that I always revered along the coast before the development guys destroy it I think it is prudent to share it. The coast of Tulunaad is intercepted with rivers and rivulets joining the great ocean. The confluence. One also sees the confluence of…

  • Landmarks

    Birds migrate, their homing skills, using different techniques like smell, vibrations from the earth’s magnetic field and geographic clues. I never realized how much humans did it too, until we travelled down to Udupi for the week-end. When we left home for the anegudde temple, on the way would be smell of the drying fish,…

  • musings on women’s day

    March 8th, Every institution, marketing guru, NGO’s get into bandwagon of women’s day, I wonder how many of them actually translate into actions. Question routinely raised— Equality of opportunity Financial empowerment Healthcare Fine, but sometimes I wonder… if the society gives the woman her issue. Woman’s education what if the woman herself does not want…