दिवाळी – अंधारावर प्रकाशाने मिळवलेल्या विजयाचा उत्सव – किती साधी, सोपी, सुंदर संकल्पना! आपण त्याला नरकासुराच्या वधाचे रूप देऊया, रावणवधानंतर परतणाऱ्या रामाच्या अयोध्येमधील स्वागताचं रूप देऊया किंवा आणखी काही म्हणून उद्बोधूया, शेवटी ह्या सणाचे महत्त्व मूलभूत रूपाने फार साधं आहे – प्रकाशाने अंधारावर, म्हणजेच चांगल्याने वाईटावर, सत्कृत्याने दुष्कृत्यावर, ज्ञानाने अज्ञानावर, शांतीने अशांतातेवर, आशेने निराशेवर केलेली…
Detailsमैंने कहा – साल क्या, बस एक सीमारेखा ही तो है, चलते चलते लांघ जायेंगे… मन ने कहा – बात तो ठीक है, बस लांघते लांघते याद कर लेना – वह पल जब पिछली सीमा पार की थी, वह दौर जो गुज़रे हैं तब और अब के बीच, वह ख्व़ाब जो हकीकत बने, और वो…
Details“This is not just any musing that I have written about, it is a labour of my love for Lataji’s voice, an avid account of my admiration and adulation for her work and her career. I have not seen God, but I have felt His or Her Divine presence in Lataji’s voice. To me, that golden voice is the best manifestation I know of माँ सरस्वती (Maa Saraswati), the goddess of the arts and learning. This is therefore an offering of my love, my worship, my पूजा, my इबादत, my परसतिश – to the golden voice of Lataji!”
DetailsTomorrow is Mothers’ Day. As I sipped my tea this morning, the thought of Mothers’ Day triggered a question in my head – what is motherhood? And this set off an avalanche of memories, ideas and thoughts, exploring the meaning of motherhood and how it has impacted my life. The outcome of this morning reflection is this ode (in prose) … to mothers and motherhood …
DetailsIt looks like a hot day; a lot of water is splashing around and the view is not clear. As the splashing subsides a bit, a bunch of kids of varying ages are briefly visible, playing in water, and hold on, this is not a swimming pool, it looks like a lake or a river. Just as I am beginning to recognize the scene, it dissolves, and a new one appears, this one with a bunch of playing cards that kids are playing with.
DetailsIt was heart-rending to see Steve Smith’s press conference video yesterday. A success story, a role-model, a hero reduced to zero. It was difficult to associate this diffident-looking, devastated and broken man with the swashbuckling batsman we loved. One could not help feeling very sorry. Such a sad self-inflicted turn of events for one of…
Details` “Tasmania??? I wonder…”, said I. We were exploring possible destinations for a winter vacation and Tasmania had just popped up as a serious option, checking off all criteria – not too cold at that time of the year, not visited so far, and one with a lot of natural beauty. I was surprised at…
DetailsI loved physics at school; and Newton’s laws of motion was among my favourite concepts, as it helped explain so many things I saw in the real world around me. Little did I know then that these same laws that govern the world of physics also apply to the world of mental physics, something…
DetailsThoughts, ideas, reflection – that’s what sets us apart from the rest of the living world, and has led to the evolution of our race to levels unparalleled in any other. An average person is said to have seventy thousand thoughts a day. We think fast, we think hard, and most times, we think in…
DetailsDeath – the state of being dead … when it comes, it stuns the life out of everyone around. The blow of death hits the dead person silent, reducing him from an animate, warm, bubbling, noisy living somebody to a still, cold, rigid, silent “body”. But it’s not just the dead person that this…
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