If previously religion was the opiate of the masses now its fake news. Continue reading
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Sending out my S.O.S.
And once in a while the universe responds in your own unique morse code. Continue reading
Disease, Asthma
I’ve a cloudy view that a lot of these allergies come from the contamination in our food and water. Continue reading
Death – The Great Equalizer.
Death reminds me of death. When I read the news today about LK Advani’s wife, i misread it thinking LK Advani had passed away. And my thought was death spares no-one. Continue reading
Recurring Plots.
In a world that’s so overridingly connected is it possible to have anything new to say ? Continue reading
Respite.
..I’m gonna fly like a bird through the night, feel my tears as they dry..
I’m gonna swing from the chandelier, from the chandelier
I’m gonna live like tomorrow doesn’t exist
Like it doesn’t exist
I’m gonna fly like a bird through the night, feel my tears as they dry
I’m gonna swing from the chandelier, from the chandelier
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How To Make Friends – Part 17
The Stones We Throw.
The other day I went into a rage about something quite small and it brought a sense of unease, because I’m more self-aware and I thought I’d left that behind me. Continue reading
Encore Barack!
So all in all, I have decided that Obama is the man with a plan (even if he has vegan followers :)) and the hope that America reinvents itself.
Brain Balances.
I am quite intrigued by left and right brain activities at the moment. This one is so cool. Continue reading
mind chatter
How can one live in any situation and learn to be at peace with you?
When is action informed, how do you know that your actions are informed?
Ten Breaths.
For women, it also works wonders with the hormonal and libidal surges associated with menstruation. Continue reading
Wish.
How To Make Friends With Me- Part One.
“Please do not talk to me, if you’d like to then please behave.” Continue reading
Let me see who can keep you from me now.
“You are my child who has returned lo me
Let me see who can keep you from me now.” Continue reading
Sankalpa.
“There shall never be a storm
That can wash the path from my feet,” Continue reading
Do you believe in God?
‘The Message of Yoga’
Yoga Magazine, May 1997. Continue reading
Thiruvalluvar Statue
This statue is of a southern Indian saint is to be found on the southernmost tip of India surrounded by three seas. Continue reading
contemplation on food
“…Spare a thought for the earth which held it in its womb… ” Continue reading
You.
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. Continue reading
Menstruate and Invert?
The idea of menstruation and inversions being a “big thing” came as a surprise to me during our TTC in 2006. Continue reading
Images / Pop / Sex & related
Original Kate
In the neighbourhood.
great ad. but Sweety forgot to pay his web-host. Continue reading
From Native to Refugee – Basharat Peer
After I put across some hints to hurry along, I finally told her to move and she thrust a book in my face ” I had nightmares for a month – Lado you HAVE to read this book!” Continue reading
Old-school and Exercise Fads
“Students, teachers and the promoters of yoga are responsible for a gross oversimplification; where yoga is seen as exercise or as a substitute to it.
which does justice to neither.” Continue reading
“Find out if your relationship is destined to last or whether it’s time to throw in the towel?”
An article on yahoo news made me laugh. It’s pop-dating advice yet so well crafted that it makes you laugh- I do hope that was what was intended. Continue reading
Yoga: semantics and practical experience.
This is one of the aims of yoga and one of the first goals for a newby yogi- Health. You could be Richard Branson, Swami such and such, Husain Bolt or on your computer at work- health would be a bonus and the lack of it would hold you back. Continue reading
Yoga – practice and chatting.
Its been ten years and I’ve had cause to define and re-define my definition of yoga many times. I’ve read a few books, many articles, attended talks and studied with some fabulous yoga teachers; this is my fourth year teaching yoga and I’ve realised that the philosophy is great but it amounts to very little if you don’t practice for yourself. The understanding that you get from practice and then committing to practice, day-in and day-out, is different from the understanding you have from reading.
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Rockstar!
Neha Bhasin Rock F$*king Star!
Seriously hot. Whew! Can that girl move!
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Chem. lab
“As a self-avowed bisexual I wonder what that’s meant to signify. Where is that magical chemistry , that spark?” Continue reading
Trail of Crumbs.
“I am becoming increasingly of someone watching me. In this interplay between giggling Mina and gang and the serious me, someone or something watches over us. ” Continue reading
Grace.
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On the face of it, I’m helping them, I’m teaching them. But it feels like when someone asks you a trick question. You think you’ve the right answer and then you wonder what the question was.” Continue reading
monsoon of gratification
“The babel mutes to a soft murmur as I roll up the window to an ever-engaging present. I slip back no matter how much I’ve dissected and analysed, how to my detriment it can be to repeat a pattern.”
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I love Butch girls and How!
“Whether you’re a guy or a girl being ‘butch’ it’s about allowing for all aspects of yourself; for the strong and the soft for the the shades of grey.” Continue reading
Anand(1970) and my dad.
“..the father is completely right, I watched ‘Anand’ one afternoon alone and wept from start to end.” Continue reading
Lose weight like never before?
“There’s no point popping pills if the food you eat at the times you are hungry is processed and devoid of nutrients……We are designed to eat.” Continue reading
Contrary.mp3
‘And so you realise ‘the project’ is you and you don’t feel all that revolutionary after all. More like someone returning from rehab in a world that’s still allowed to drink.’
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Rajneeti- a new kind of Bollywood film
“I don’t think it’s a phenomenal movie or a classic but significant because it’s indicative of a different stream of thinking in desi films” Continue reading
Changing People In A Relationship.
We’re often so worried about if people will like us , love us, we don’t know what bits to keep and what needs improvement. Continue reading
Bananas, not a metaphor.
..if there were a penultimate breakfast or a snack- the banana is it! It’s healthy, loaded with vitamins and very easily accessible….
The only time you shouldn’t eat a banana is after the sun sets or if you haven’t paid for it. Continue reading
Termination isn’t the only way.
“I might not know the statistics but the one thing I do know is that when our problems become faceless and anonymous then our solutions become more increasingly inhumane. Spilling blood should not be so easy and at ones fingertips.” Continue reading
sound beginning
“Now when I want to make important decisions I try to get into that state of mind that I’m in yoga class when we begin to say prayers together” Continue reading
