It is there, before me Behind the breath in my bow As I inhale and know And exhale with that knowledge Of the One that exists That illuminates my being Now bowed before it… Read More

Why and whencefrom the Vedic Way ? The question is bound to occur among readers used to hearing supremacist beliefs blared into their ears. These beliefs are foremost in both Christianity an… Read More

It’s the all-time list… The Shakuntala story is the top star, most viewed post. Two among them are very special : one on Meena Kumari is a biographical review; the other is a fi… Read More

This blog is nearing its 200,000 viewership, promising to cross the hump in a matter of a few days. The viewership was highest in the year 2015. I have always been curious about the global s… Read More

It’s an introduction the author himself offers as a prelude or prologue. quote from A Rogue By Any Other Name by Sarah MacLean Langford…leveled Bourne with a cool look. “Y… Read More

The Wild by Christopher Golden. It is available as a free to read ebook on novel80.com It is well written and engaging narration, especially for those of us who have or have had adventure in… Read More

Hindus do not marry into a contract, and almost never with a prenuptial. That can be difficult to understand, much less appreciate, for people of other faiths. Both Christians and Muslims, a… Read More

And it is worth hearing what Advocate Ananya Roy has shared on his blog. As you read his essays, largely biographical and keenly self-appraised, you can sense that his words are honest and t… Read More

This herebelow is an excerpt from the second part of a brilliant article presented in two parts. It may not make sense or be of interest to every reader; but those with a modicum of knowledg… Read More

There is very little to nothing left of so called “pagan” ways of life as they prevailed before the advent of Abrahamic religions, Christianity and Islam in particular. India is… Read More

It is ancient, starting around 600 AD. Bateshwar is a remote area in Chambal river ravine, north of Gwalior and east of Morena in Madhya Pradesh. Spread over 25 acres, it offers an astonishi… Read More

Just came across a greatly detailed tour description of Chausath Yogini Temple in Orissa… A rare tour, amazing ! “Each idol is delightfully posed, many with a soft smile that en… Read More

“The first case of coronavirus surprised us in Peru with 3 million families registered in a state of poverty and extreme poverty, with 3 million people in the peripheral areas of Lima… Read More

The site cited my tweet in which I had said “Muslims in general and Pakistanis in particular are mentally ill people.” What do you call a people who are dedicated to killing abou… Read More

All that you may have heard about its the sprawling beaches and exotic resorts is true. But even then, Bali is essentially a temple town. And Balinese are deeply religious (Dharmic is a bet… Read More

This article is being put up to highlight periodicals and magazines in West that concertedly peddle lies and half-truths, motivated distortions and outright propaganda, to cast India and it… Read More

https://www.pocketfm.in/show/c98f52ad1f16fd34336e96c5091de880e38ef4aeAa Please visit this app based audio links for access to 14 episodes of Chandragupta Maurya’s story, his rise and d… Read More

एक बार मध्यप्रदेश के इन्दौर नगर … Read More

Yes, quite a while since I put up something new. But the 850 odd entries from before continue to engage readers across the globe, without slack. The warmth it leaves in my heart makes the ef… Read More

That is, speaking anecdotically, after a forenoon spent through election results announced for India’s Parliament, for its next 5-year term… Amma ji : Kitchen will remain closed… Read More

INTRODUCTION One fallout of persisting at such an impossible mission is that the work in your hand does not aspire to be entertaining. It would be a huge bonus if it does but only while it s… Read More

The Veda — the second part in the SOROUSHA series — is now being published and would soon be available at your favorite digital store !   books2read.com/b/bzWy7G #AMil… Read More

     May I Attain Zenith ~ Inspired by Sama Veda, 611 May I be luminous As the heavens above Rich as earth in abundance Mighty as Indra, beyond compare. May I be wise as Brih… Read More

Can you just come over here And let me in to your little world And tell me things that I have missed Things that I should have learned Whisper in how you’ve grown And how you’ve… Read More

‘Have a lovely sleep, good boy’ I said, and all the animals I have ever loved curled up beside him in my heart… © Maureen Sudlow via LAST NIGHT… —… Read More

A picture couldn’t do justice to Arctic wind’s ferocity blowing across the great lake thirty or forty m.p.h. white caps rushing toward shore water, trees, sand and leaves &helli&helli…Read More

Great Governance : NDA Govt’s #RealWork By Arun Jaitley @arunjaitley,  Finance Minister The #UPA itself was a divided house on Aadhaar. Its non statutory status tri… Read More

Dr Jagadish J Hiremut @Kaalateetham In 6 months HDK + Pappu govt in Karnataka has increased : Bus fare 18% Current bill 9.5% Road tax 13% Drivi… Read More

Today : 89% of households electrified. 2014 : About 77% … #RealWork #RahulGandhi, this would be unthinkable during those “accidentally” scam filled #Congress led years si… Read More

I have heard some views, essentially saying that stock market is its own thing and has little or nothing to do with the “real” economy where people are involved : they labour, ed… Read More

How would you know what ? To you, it can only seem…to be beautiful or ugly : shapes, lines or surface, and colour flow in three dimensions. Yet, what a pic captures means things that… Read More

It was Tulsi Vivah … Marriage Day for Tulsi plant with Shaligram, a consecrated piece of slightly flattened, well rounded stone. I had no idea of the level and extent of celebration… Read More

Pick it up ! EXTENDED BEING : The Millennial Story It’s Like Nothing You’ve Read Before. Go To Your Favourite Bookstore Here Read More

I literally tire of moron columnists that @timesofindia carries. I’ll refer to just two of them : Aakar and Aiyar. The first offers a belaboured piece that concludes, a nation is about… Read More

The ebook EXTENDED BEING, releasing for sale on Nov 19, can be availed with a single click here. The book is priced at US $9.99. It has about 83,000 words. Buyers in Mexico, Brazil and Ind… Read More

All things considered, to reduce life to a play about your ideal is the best romantic thing to do : trying to harmonise your life as it is with the ideal or to elevate your life to how the i… Read More

The gist of the matter is my ebook is priced at US $ 9.99 (against its paperback price of US$ 28.95 odd) through the only publishing arrangement I have, with Draft2Digital.com. They have bee… Read More

The ebook EXTENDED BEING, Book I in series SORO USHA — A Millennial Work, will release for publication on this day. via Nov 19, Mark It ! Read More

It began with calls to establish the sameness between paupers and kings : strip the latter of his wealth and privilege and give to commoners their certified crowning. It hasn’t made pe… Read More

I am aghast of this information. During its 5-year term, central govt enabled release of ₹ 43 trillion in the economy, if this message on Twitter is true. The cumulative GDP through th… Read More

This is my mail to [email protected], which returned undelivered with info that the recipient was not found, that the domain facebook.com did not exist !  Mail Text You are making i… Read More

Vedanta is for us to live meaningfully and more fully, in truth. The Vedanta perspective reducts from our knowledge of the reality of being, our own at first, extended in the three Great Spa… Read More

Yes, as we move into the autumnal world of golden sunshine, in between pourings of the receding monsoons, its quicker evenings and shorter days, I have been occupied with work. The roller co… Read More

To be true, it is a major operation upon our self, to cease the habit or addiction and “move on.” It will take an awakening, as out of an intensely sticky dream, to keep constant… Read More

In a world where men are failing by millions, robbing and denying others and turning predators because they cannot steer themselves away, the Master is an evolved representative of humankind… Read More

It’s a new impetus but at the other site. via Hello. Hola. Everyone Read More

The movement is actually from relationship of love, however it might have hitched far back in time, to love free of relationship. This isn’t an instant type of advisory, or a suggestio… Read More

It’s not, never, the things, beings or people, that matter. It is always your relationship with one or a few of them, how you relate with them, how the relatedness began, tumbled, chan… Read More

Atharva Veda 3.30.02 The son follows In his father’s steps And is of a mind His mother shares. No idea how many arguments and controversies would be bounced off this Vedic advice. Or… Read More

“Surely, Joseph, you don’t want me to say it. The Scripture mentions such forbidden things. People might think your interest was—personal.” He looked at his hands and… Read More

Looking into the stats pages of this blog, I am thoughtful… over 850 posts, close to 170,000 views by about 111,000 visitors, without commensurate likes and comments. None of which ma… Read More

Megasthenes also mentioned the country’s caste system, more in terms of profession, status and personality descriptor. But the problem from an Indic perspective is that very little of… Read More

Devraha Baba was … called, “The Ageless Yogi.” Nobody knows for sure how long he lived – at least 200 years, but probably much longer. The first President of India… Read More

I’ve written “In Trump I Trust.” Many do not. I have no problem with them provided they are civil about it and do not peddle proppaganda, lies and half truths, in their des… Read More

Such is Banswada, a small town in Rajasthan. It was here that a whole recension of the Rig Veda has been discovered, thought to have been lost for centuries. Here, on the border of Gujarat… Read More

My past life diagnosis : I don’t know how I feel about it, but I was a female in my last earthly incarnation. I was born somewhere in modern Central India around the year 875 AD. My… Read More

Now that may seem too into-the-face, especially to all the left liberal and logical people I see and hear around me. Let me submit three sound byte images that are currently in air. 1 … Read More

I do not agree with Buddhist idealism : winning is not important; cooperate, not compete; et al. Not per se but because of the presumed universality embedded in the call, in a world that waf… Read More

Boom Boom! That’s the sound of the African drum! Mama and the ladies dance around the fire. Boom Boom! That’s the sound of the mine! Daddy and the Men shall go and dig for Diamo… Read More

“…the idea that you can believe whatever you want to is irresponsible and undesirable,” says Daniel DeNicola, professor and chair of philosophy at Gettysburg College… Read More

You have not given until the giving has hurt you and has at once quadrupled your cheer ! During Yudhisthir’s rajsuya yagya, after the Mahabharata War, a peculiarly large squirrel visi… Read More

मोहम्मद बिन कासिम के आक्रमण से ए… Read More

Of all the propaganda we are surrounded in. The art of dressing up a lie or half truth was mastered in the last century in Europe by colonialists, communists and the fascist-socialists. It w… Read More

To me, David Goodall’s choice of passing away, finally when he wanted to, is not morbid. Not morbid at all; it instead reminds me of Albert Camus’ posthumously published work, A… Read More

Speak not of fears, yours or mine Nor of the future verging on mind Let’s step back just, hold our silence And let all pass, away and over far Before we look at it, now free and unafra… Read More

Not everything is a problem. Not every solution jumping in your mind is needed. Though matters may seem problematic They essentially demand your attention Till they go away Resolved of their… Read More

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The gross should have long ago grossed us out. But look around : the world is more involved in businesses related to food, sex, body craft and grooming, than in books and lettercraft. I am n… Read More

The objective – subjective idealistic conflict presents an interesting thought but does not go far enough. The first part roots for the thing as it is; the second is all that we und… Read More

“…Silence shrieks and wounds speak Strength surrenders to stanzas Pain pen poems down and bleed till ink runs dry Some prose of love and some drafts of goodbye…” W… Read More

Been up to Hamilton for a family wedding (can’t post those photos yet as the official ones aren’t out) and visited our daughter in Whakatane… …the view from their… Read More

जी हां इस वक्त भारतीय राजनीति मे… Read More

The presence of individuals or groups of immigrants from Indian Subcontinent in Mesopotamia in the 3rd millennium BC was recognized since the discovery of Indus Civilization at Harappa and M… Read More

In electoral politics, NOTA — None Of The Above — makes no sense. By choosing NOTA, we are saying, we are voting for none of the candidates in the list. It can only be our expres… Read More

It will shortly pass into folk lore which, in the Indian subcontinent, abounds with umpteen instances of the Lord of the Universe being moved by his devotee’s simple will. This one was… Read More

“It’s frustrating to not be able to make a start, but the soil is still cold and sodden.   When the last of the snow retreated into dark hedges sheltered from the sun… Read More

Judgement is a function of intelligence. So, unless one is thick as rank stupids are, one would judge whatever is before us : happening, situation, thing, being, person, attitude, choices or… Read More

The family is like a lamb or cow you could easily slaughter. If we do not, at least among Hindus, Zoroastrians, Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists, it is because they give us more while they are ali… Read More

In popular belief they are supposed to be the descendants of some deported Greek soldiers of Alexander, yet some trace roots of their existence deep into Hindu mythology. Their ancestral roo… Read More

In our imperfect world there is far too much talk and not enough thought … Ruskin Bond, Author Read more @ A Good Philosophy Makes Life Worthwhile Read More

In practice, democracy is not the ideal system of governance. It is just the most acceptable to mainstream people of a nation state. What would be ideal ? Communism; even organised religions… Read More

“Though applicable to the same contextual matrix, terror is felt by individuals, in their own distinctive ways, while war is business of communities or nations for or against aggressio… Read More

“…I should stress that Devānāmpriya Priyadarśī does not call himself Aśoka in any of the major rock edicts that mention the Greek kings. Devānā……Read More

Quoted entirely from https://2ndlook.wordpress.com/tag/boghazkoi/ To understand the ‘politics’ of Indus-Saraswati Valley sites, a good start point is Turkey. In 1834, local… Read More

It is more nearly possible, however, for the public to enlighten itself; indeed, if it is only given freedom, enlightenment is almost inevitable. There will always be a few independent think… Read More

Will those who hold anti encumbancy sentiments against Modi or BJP or wax eloquent on left-liberal placard values and “save democracy” concerns, or have laid back support for gen… Read More

Remembering experiences in our history, of the sword of #Islam and the noose of Christian clan, whatever else be their name or hue…is the sombre duty of the mainstream people of India… Read More

To sum up the whole study of the Indo-European homeland : The evidence of archaeology completely disproves, or, at the very least, completely fails to prove, the non-Indian origin of the Ind… Read More

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Indian history is over twenty millennia old. The subcontinent was relatively more populous even then, with very many pockets of closed and partially open communities spread all across, livin… Read More

The laws, framed anytime between 12000 – 8000 BC (perhaps even older, around 19,000 — 17,000 BC) at the origin of Sanatan civilisation, seem astonishingly contemporary excep… Read More

The British called its battles of 1857 in the Indian sub-continent, waged by native people, as “Sepoy Mutiny” or terms as dismissive, more or less : rebellion, revolt, upris… Read More

I would laugh at the carricature-like chanting that priestly congregations end up with, the Surya namaskara they attempt or when they put up images of the Virgin draped in a sari… Read More

She is both amazing, like she might be from a paradisical world, and incredibly beautiful, behind the wonderful measure and simplicity of her blogposts. Wanted to start painting again today… Read More

Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, an organization created in order to prevent gun violence, announced a public service advertising campaign in 2013. It featured a series of print… Read More

…oh i saw it. w a cold smile, it looks at me, embracing me only to never let go, for i lie frosted, as it slowly clasps me, only to never let go, but oh fear not, for the morning will… Read More

Truth Value of  World–Body–Prana–Mind–I The existential being-for-itself already introduced is forever qualified and featured, gaining subtexts and tertiary qual… Read More

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This mammoth is dead for thousands of years when our story begins. Back then, when it happened, its body was instantly deep-frozen. Millennia later, when found in the Siberian permafrost reg… Read More

A visual is enough to sense the freedom and love of colourful diversity…and the opposite, as some communities choose to impose Read More