01 Oct 2023 · Travel
The Soul of Kashmir as I have seen it
Srinagar old town has its own nostalgic beauty in itself. We walked through it in the evening, starting from the zero bridge…
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30 Jan 2022 · Daily reading
‘Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring’
Kim Ki-duk’s quiet meditation on seasons, masters and disciples, and the circle a life makes when it returns to where it began.
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04 Jan 2022 · Daily reading
“I can wait, I can fast, I can think”
On Hermann Hesse’s <em>Siddhartha</em> — a book I have read in three languages, at three different ages.
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17 Dec 2021 · Music
Pt. Ravi Shankar’s death anniversary
On the sitar maestro’s last concert, and the spirituality a person develops during the sadhana of any art.
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16 Dec 2021 · Poetry · Nostalgia
You Say Her
You say her what do you want to say. Don’t be fearful…
Read the entry →31 May 2020 · Nostalgia · Poetry
When you will see her for the first time..
You never know what will you feel when you will see her for the first time…
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તારી હથેળીને દરિયો માનીને – તુષાર શુક્લ
A beloved Gujarati song by Tushar Shukla — innocence in the first line, contrast in the second.
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08 Apr 2020 · Physics · Daily reading
Four different types of human beings
Reading Swami Vivekananda — four fundamental types of a person, and a curiosity about karma and metaphysics.
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03 Apr 2020 · Physics · Daily reading
“I loved them and they loved me back”
Ustad Alla Rakha said this of his tablas. On non-living consciousness, and becoming one with an instrument.
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31 Mar 2020 · Daily reading
The Principle of Unequal Distribution, by Jordan Peterson
A different take on the principle of unequal distribution — from finance to creative production.
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30 Mar 2020 · Letters to self
two
Have you ever thought that whatever you did or earn or burn, doesn’t matter…
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Nara — a connection between nature and human consciousness
An out-of-the-world half day among the deer and temples of Nara, on a side trip from Kyoto.
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30 Mar 2020 · Physics · Daily reading
न हन्यते हन्यमाने शरीरे
A verse from the Bhagavad Gita, read alongside the law of conservation of energy.
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29 Mar 2020 · Letters to self
One
Hey Hi, how are you? Wanted to write you since long…
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