Beauty in the gutter of Kangra Valley, India

Wishing everyone here a very happy new year.

To the ones I know, wish HNY with a "how have you been, mean to catch up with you soon and apologies for not being there to read and comment… Read full post »

You have written:

"We get used to things, and stop thinking about what life used to be like, or is like in other places."

But tonight I wish both of you have enough time to go over all those days you had in the past,… Read full post »

A fellow meditator, a true son of the soil, a man that looks like a rockstar, lives like a monk, loves no one, hates no one, owns nothing: no land, no house, no car, no job, no money, no worries, no fear, no girl friend, no children or wife. All… Read full post »

Breaking stone the ancient way - he has hammered in pins into the rock in a line (where you see the dots), Upper Bhagsu in the Dharamshala district of the state of Himachal Pradesh. Himalayas. Elevation 2200 mtrs. This is my third visit to this state. The first time… Read full post »

Coming out of a ten day long Vipassana meditation camp, life feels slightly different.

Running inside the head are the vows of shila, samadhi, pragya, the struggle is to maintain "anichhya" (equanimity towards sensations good or bad) at all times.

Vipassana is the oldest known, the most purest form… Read full post »

There is a man at work that I fancy.

What he isn’t:  six feet tall, a paragon of virtue, the greatest looking guy on the block. He is not the most intelligent bloke I have known. He is not interested in me, or of the same social… Read full post »

thats the balcony view of the new house I found bef I left Lucknow, the one in which I might have stayed at, had I still worked there

view from the bedroom in the new house that I might now never stay at but wd… Read full post »

I have extremely strong intuition. I am intuitive. Am an InTJ person. According to the Briggs-Myer Tests. I had sensed something was not quite right and I had been asking to see copy for a long time. I started working on it in November 2011.… Read full post »

February 14. Circa 2012. A little heritage town in India. Office space. Everyone around is wishing each other Happy Valentine’s Day. The idea is the day is about universal love, bhaichara ki din hain bhai, Happy Valentine’s Day. Some walked around with flowers in their hair. Some were see… Read full post »

Jane Smithie, a woman I admired and thought of as friend here on OS went away yesterday. I hope she is back and talking again. Indomitable spirit this woman is about.

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When everything indicates there is no reason to hope for better, or scope of action, it is stupid, selfish,… Read full post »

How is it that FIVE landlords and the YWCA have all thrown you out. How can it be that they are ALL wrong in EVERY case, and YOU are blameless in EVERY case?

Any reasonable person would conclude that YOU are the TROUBLEMAKER. So you… Read full post »

"they are ill
with
being
human"

IF that is what it is, yes, I can forgive. I shall.

But then it is not for me to forgive, forego or punish anyone. I am all for live and let live. Long as I get to live and let go as I please.

I wd… Read full post »

The Theatere Workshop is putting up a Sophoclean play this week at the Sangeet Natak academy hall.

 Ever since I came to know about it, I have wanted to go.

But am scared to go alone. Bec the play starts at 7 pm, it would be late when it ends and… Read full post »

Dearest I,

I do not feel strong enough to hope I shall see you when you are grown up enough to be able to read this blog. I may not be around when you read this. So I leave stories about my 'life' here for you to know who your godmommy… Read full post »

Theres a lady on the phone for you...(she takes the surprised silence to mean yes, take call) please hold the line, I shall tranfer the call for you

No friend or family would call work during working hours unless theres an emergency...what lady?

Helo?

Umm (who???) -… Read full post »

 India celebrates Holi today... these are my new neighbours

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Happy Holi to Everyone at Open Salon.

May the colors and flavors of Spring touch your lives with warmth and goodness and variety and interesting thoughts and ideas to live better.

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I had said in an earlier blogpost that I did not care about morality.

Morals change with time, clime, weather and politics. Somethings that never change whether one is with the Bantus in Africa or the bustee dwellers in Mumbai is the longing for cleanliness. 

Most people around the world,… Read full post »

"the posts I've read so far have not drawn me along a narrative arc."

Simply bec there was no design to it all, like laying pieces of a picture (cut to shreds by a an angry adult) out on a desk - there was no intention to create an arc. More importantly,… Read full post »

Emmerling's comment reassured me that he was right round the bend and that I wdnt fall through - in my head at least. I am scared of flling through the unending hole and keep falling forever, my father had said that is hell, when your fall never ends - I… Read full post »

tired

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