I watched a YouTube clip of an Indian spiritual master. He narrates his experience in the Tennessee Valley, where he went on a boat ride in a lake. The sensitivity, poetry, eulogy and tribute he pays to a lost and losing tribe touches you deeply. It reverberates the injustice inflicted in the past and insensibility all of us...
The enigmatice and evasive TIme. More you dig for it, more it gets facinating. and more will be coming
SOMETIMES BEING RESILIENT IN DEFEAT IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN WINNING IN LIFE.
Egyptian lullaby It is an Egyptian lullaby. from the medieval times. Sleep, sleep babyto take a nap on the matsleep in the dark till it is goneand the big light comes illuminate all the neighbourhood Tomorrow your father will comeholding the lemon harvestgetting you a skirt and shawlto be warm in December you small smartyour...
Ghost stories of British Museum The stories on ghosts will never cease to fascinate us. It may be that these are essential archetypes, teleologically embedded in the civilisation whatever be the spirit of the age and time. If the rationalist mainstream refuses to entertain these paranormal events; they persevere and keep cropping up in the...
I visited Istanbul recently. The images of the great city in its medieval context were very fascinating and evocative of many thoughts and reflections. More so when I was reading about the scenario of the fall of Constantinople. Sultan Mahomet 2 had seized the golden horn, which is a strategic landmass and the Constantinople fort...
O day, arise! The atoms are dancing. Thanks to Him the universe is dancing.The souls are dancing, overcome with ecstasy. I’ll whisper in your ear where their dance is taking them. All the atoms in the air and in the desert know well, They seem insane. Every single atom, happy or miserable,Becomes enamoured of the...
THERE ARE SO MANY CULTURES ACROSS THE GLOBE WHICH ARE VERY NATURAL AND HEARTWARMING. THE RICHNESS OF THEIR POETRY AND DANCE ENTWINED WITHIN THE THIER HUMAN SAGA, UNLESS WITNESSED, HUMAN LIFE IS NOT COMPLETE. The following song contains the subject of how close the people are with nature and how simple they kept their lives...
It is very sad to see a native language (Mother tongue) so mercilessly and mindlessly bartered away. I am talking about the push for English medium instruction in place of Telugu in a south Indian province in India. Language is the vehicle of the culture and it carries the cultural collective unconscious, the trials and...
This song is about the life of a Dalit during the pre-independence days. He was a great devotee of Lord Venkateshwara. He used to stand in front of the temple and indulge in the bhajans (chants of praise of God). One day, in a state of a trance, he goes into the temple chanting ‘Govinda,...