It's just what it says…a little beating and bending of the mind
It’s time finally to unleash the emotions. I've hesitated many times to share about what is essentially a very deep personal journey...But can't hold back. Calling it a roller coaster of emotions doesn’t quite sum up the range and depth of feelings in the last couple of weeks - ever since Sadhguru’s surgery has been… Continue reading Game, Set and Match
Well, here we are, Jan 2021. Dec 31st 2020 did not magically eradicate the virus or give us a license to go back to our “normal” lives by which I mean our maskless, globetrotting, irreverent and carefree (careless) ways. Before you start reading, this is not another piece on lockdowns and how they’re actually blessings… Continue reading CIRCA 2020 – From Corona to a Code Freeze!
Well, this began in part as a resolution to write more regularly but it’s also something that’s been on my mind for a while now, albeit as a vague thought process. A couple of conversations in the last few days have just served to catalyse it into a more lucid expression.
Growing up, I was quite often termed, in varying degrees of exasperation and amusement, as too optimistic, naïve, idealistic (and consequently, unrealistic). A high school friend would constantly caution that I was looking at the world through rose tinted glasses. “You don’t understand how people can be”, my mother would bemoan, quite sure that her daughter would not survive in the ‘big bad world’.
My defense then, as it is now, is that the world is what you make it to be. Quite simply, what you reflect is also what you see. Or, at the risk of being too reductionist, it’s the age-old adage of believing in good for good to happen.
In times when we are increasingly assaulted by news of crimes that highlight human depravity, I understand why this seems like a churlish thought. And thereby, a disclaimer here...I do know fully well that the world, people or just life in general doesn’t work as simplistically as that. And that being careful and watchful is imperative to the times we live in. I have no disagreement there.
It is the pervasiveness and intensity of our carefulness that troubles me.
Kailash Manasarovar 2016
When the scandal broke about people being held captive at the Isha Foundation, I didn’t even think it was a big deal… emotionally distraught parents taking a dramatic route for what they thought was their daughters’ wellbeing. Amidst everything else in the country, a story that barely deserved a mention in the media. But true… Continue reading My story with Isha
For a while now, there’s been much talk about nationality, culture, what they represent and how one identifies (or should identify) with them. Amidst all the ideological engagement about these things, a couple of events really got me thinking about the context that culture, religion and the like frame in our lives. One was a… Continue reading Marrying the profound and the popular
Call me silly and emotional, but I am a proud Indian.. the kind that will tear up when the anthem plays at a sports event and get emotional when we win a medal and the tricolor is hoisted. I’m proud of the country, its journey and everything it has stood for. If this defines me… Continue reading JNU AND THE VIOLENT PLAY OF DEMOCRACY
Well, just that title would seem to merit sympathy, even if I were to read it myself. I can almost feel 20 year old me wincing at the very thought. It's been a few weeks since I turned 28 and I find myself single and jobless (at least in the traditional sense of the word)..… Continue reading Turning 28 – Single and jobless!
Few experiences in one's life really stand out. Not only for how much they have offered but for the opportunities they have presented and how much they have allowed one to grow. The last 4 weeks have been one of those times. When I heard about International Day of Yoga for the first time, I… Continue reading Volunteering for International Day of Yoga
Capability and clarity, life asked for of which we had only one to offer Involvement and intensity, life asked for of which we had none to offer The luxury of foresight, lies in the realm of the mystic; The privilege of choice though was ours to have exercised. A great many choices we could have… Continue reading Musings
Mental Tinkering 