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A Visit To A Puja Pandal
2023-10-23 14:10
Draped in the finest silken attire and adorned with dazzling jewelry, the 15 foot high idol of Maa Durga with lethal weapons and piercing glance looks both enchanting and powerful. &n… Read More
The Chat And The ChatGPT
2023-07-22 16:22
The panoramic scene of gusty winds, the grey overcast and the splash of slanting downpour on to the streets kicks off a mood, jubilant to enjoy the monsoon rains. Along with the urge to be t… Read More
Kavad-  A Timeless Spiritual Journey
2023-07-16 06:59
Chandan Sahu was trekking the two hundred fifty kilometre highway for the last five days, carrying on his shoulders a wooden framed colourful canopy, reverentially called the Kavad, bala… Read More
Spotlight On Moonlight
2022-09-23 18:59
Moonlight His dad was never at home in the evenings and that’s the reason we friends usually hung out at Anil’s house unrestrained after our school hours. Being the father of… Read More
Chak De, Go For It!
2022-05-30 15:59
Go for it! “It would take three years to bring the learning standards of these kids to the pre-pandemic levels” laments the middle-school teacher as she abruptly stops explain… Read More
Musings From Kochi-III
2022-04-30 20:09
The complex alphabets If you were to Google for “the toughest Indian language”, the instant pop-up on the screen would invariably be Malayalam. With fifty-six letters and many… Read More
Musings From Kochi-II
2022-04-21 11:19
A celebration of the gameFourteen year old Stella is a very busy girl this summer. She gets up at 5.30 sharp, much before the sunrise, completes her morning chores in ten minutes flat and is… Read More
Fostering The Vedic Lineage
2022-04-15 07:52
Sri Seetharama Ganapadigal The hazy sounds of the chorus Vedic chants heard from a good twenty meter distance turns electrifying as one steps into the sacred precinct of the Sri Bharathi… Read More
Musings From Kochi-1
2022-04-11 17:06
A day’s catch The catamaran with the outboard engine cruised elegantly towards the silvery sands of the Fort Kochi beach. And just as it neared the shallow waters, Martin switched o… Read More
Holi-The Wellspring Of Joy
2022-03-17 11:53
Holi-The wellspring of JoyThe golden sun beam piercing the morning haze spreads a cosy warmth on the pristine earth.  The gentle northerly breeze wafts the frag… Read More
At The Dargah
2022-03-12 00:46
My daughter has started a new photo blog and am sharing it here! Pragya Narayanan Met this sweet boy at the Nizamuddin Dargah during Eid. He was looking over at the Baoli. To me this pictu… Read More
A Thought On Dharma
2022-03-06 11:16
Jack is one of the five strong boys in the class but seldom gets along well with the other four except perhaps with Jim. And other than with Jim, John has great relationships with almos… Read More
Privilege And Prejudice
2021-12-04 09:33
Prejudice was a concept that remained largely alien to me till I finished schooling.  My schoolmates came from a variety of social and economic backgrounds – some ultra rich… Read More
Running The Marathon With Slippers On!
2021-10-14 18:46
Life’s important learnings often happen at strange places and it was in a Chinese restaurant that I picked up one myself. Waiting for the meal that evening, I watched with unabashe… Read More
2021-07-24 15:59
“Sir, your cabin baggage exceeds the permissible limit by two kilos. You need to offload few of the stuff and bring it down to fifteen”… the young lady at the check-in… Read More
The Other Woman In My Life
2021-06-27 14:42
Midlife, for most men, quickly turn to be a bull grind of momentous boredom. With its very repetitive array of compulsive chores, a humdrum of listless food for every meal and an eminent… Read More
A Letter To My Departed Brother-in-law
2021-04-18 07:34
Dear SN, An ever smiling SN! It was a rainy evening in 1983 when you visited us for the first time. I was a purposeless college student then, keen on discussing politics than on studyi… Read More
Mattancherry Elevens
2021-03-30 09:32
A ruthless commando operation is telecast live every other day and the weapon of combat here is the willow. Pre-emptive assault, counter attack, siege on the opponent and et al… t… Read More
Discipline And More
2021-03-21 20:29
Success, we often are told, is the product of a disciplined life. When the instinct to bypass the exacting routine is subdued and the impulse to defy the regimented schedule sublimated… Read More
Plato And The Indian Thought
2021-01-31 19:31
 “I ask every American to join me in this cause. Uniting to fight the common foes we face: Anger, resentment, hatred, extremism, lawlessness, violence, disease, joblessness, h… Read More
Silent Night
2020-12-20 17:03
Silence is ethereal for it heralds the withering of ignorance and the ripening of wisdom in our consciousness. When the constant chatter of conflicting inner voices ebb to the awareness… Read More
Pearls And The Pebbles
2020-11-20 01:43
It is too often that we tend to mistake the chaff for the grain and end up making false assumptions and wrong inferences. In our haste to make conclusions and pass judgements, we deny our… Read More
Thank You, America!
2020-11-07 15:25
Human history is punctuated with periodic events that stand out as defining moments, moments that seek to shackle off the debilitating prejudices of the times, breakaway decisively from… Read More
The Noble King And His Royal Subjects
2020-08-30 06:49
The extra large ‘Ela’, the plantain leaf, can scarcely accommodate even the first course of the colourful and aromatic Onam spread that’s lined up in a sequence that is… Read More
Vidya Drops Out Of School
2020-08-23 13:28
The Rs. 8000/- her father brought home every month loading confectionery boxes on to the trucks was supplemented by another Rs. 6000 that her mother earned by cleaning the vessels and mo… Read More
Kamala Harris And Her Chennai Connect
2020-08-16 17:32
The celebrated Tamil poet Bharati described the modern women thus “With graceful strides and head held high and looking straight into the eyes with ideals that are not afraid of an… Read More
Up By The Stairs, Down By Escalator
2020-08-09 17:13
“By saving as little as Rs.3000/- a month, you would amass a sum of Rs. 25.00 lacs by the end of the 15th year” was the tantalising assurance that tricked me to get into a un… Read More
When Everyone Enjoyed A Good Cough
2020-07-27 13:18
In one of the annual college musical competitions, I dared to try out a popular film number of those times that had a long stretch of higher notes peaking towards the end.  A profic… Read More
Blend It Like A Thali
2020-07-20 18:16
Every late evening, before retiring for the day, my mother would boil a litre of milk, allow it cool under the fan that is set to rotate at the highest speed and then do an obnoxious act… Read More
Guru Dakshina
2020-07-12 13:27
Ambuja Iyer, an octogenarian, logs to her computer every morning to conduct classes to hundreds of her students, online. She has mastered the technique to teach complex mathematical idea… Read More
The Brew Beckons
2020-07-05 10:59
The alarm that is set to wake me up every morning does not ring a bell. It, instead, lets out an invigorating aroma that wafts through the entire house which would even jumpstart a perso… Read More
Image And Imagery
2020-06-28 11:59
An alley of rows of young men and women, clad in cool attires and sitting in ergonomic chairs, are glued to their laptops.  Their trendy glassed office overlook a vast expanse of sw… Read More
Guest Post By My Daughter
2020-06-26 12:52
I think Appa started Chapter18 in 2010 or 2011. I was all of ten years old and frankly, too worried about my middle-school friendships to care or even attempt to understand what he wrote… Read More
2020-06-19 13:00
The gruesome massacre of twenty of our soldiers by a bunch of Chinese army men, nay butchers, in a pre-planned, diabolical attack has rightly caused immense outrage, not just within the… Read More
Gandhiji’s Talisman
2020-06-09 18:35
The grandfather clock in our house was an ancestral property and my father’s was the third generation to inherit it. It was a mammoth time machine with many a needles, dials, wheel… Read More
The Domestic Treaty
2020-05-04 11:06
The bilateral treaty that I and my wife entered into during this lockdown period covers areas of responsibility in discharging the household chores and it has no clause for unilate… Read More
The Great Digital Divide
2020-04-24 06:02
Moolchand’s cheap Chinese handset has, of late, turned silent. Not that the instrument has conked off but, the pre-paid number in the mobile is now “out of service” as it i… Read More
2020-03-14 19:28
For many a Holi, along with the colours, the dance and the attendant bonhomie, it is the mesmerizing delicacies of Pyare Lal, that add flavour to the celebrations in our housing society. &nb&hell…Read More
2019-12-22 19:36
For the nation emerging from the shackles of a long and debilitating colonial rule and limping its feet in the sands of time bloodied by a communal carnage of colossal magnitude, the Ind… Read More
The Marriage Of Cultures
2019-12-01 15:41
The dangling string of pearls, the ‘Mundavlya’ , tied horizontally on the bride’s forehead gets entangled with the groom’s ‘Poonal’ as he bends to wipe h… Read More
Ik Onkar
2019-11-11 15:05
Midst the vast diversity of this nation… in religion, language, culture, cuisine and attire….  the silken thread that weaves through and holds this multi-layered canvas in… Read More
Band 7 Point Something
2019-08-25 10:43
Simran Kaur, a chubby eighteen year, was making the last minute polishing of her listening skills as she jolt down points of the anglicised lecture that is streaming through her earphones… Read More
An Eulogy For Viju – Our Pet
2019-08-10 20:50
The velvety skin, flush with radiant golden-hue fur stretching till the tail end, is an irresistible invitation to caress and to cuddle him. The rounded brownish nose, sitting pretty on the… Read More
Election In A Bye-gone Era
2019-02-24 18:35
When Kochunni Master campaigned for the elections in my parliamentary constituency way back in the 80s, he never asked the people to vote for him. He would rather, tell the electorate why th… Read More
2019-01-15 18:19
After a hectic week of work overload, my wife was lazing last Sunday without attending to her routine morning chores, meaning, disinterested to prepare her usual mesmerizing breakfast for th… Read More
A Day@a Publishing House
2017-05-25 17:29
@8.15 AM: Sweta is fast hopping the office stairs to reach her desk on the second floor. “Morning, Sweta!” greeted Rajashree from the right corner workstation just has she was st… Read More
2013-02-26 10:52
My father worked in a private company that made him travel and be away from home for extended periods of time. Even when he was in town, we would leave home by around 7.30 in the morning and… Read More
2012-06-22 15:41
Nostalgia is usually referred to the fond memories of quite a distant past in one’s life but in a world where technology and gadgets seem to set the pace and purpose of our lives, I te… Read More
2012-06-04 06:57
To experience and to be established in the indescribable and the indestructible joy of the self- which is beyond the grasp of the senses, the mind, and the intellect – is envision… Read More
2012-05-23 18:15
Indian classroom I, till the other day, felt that my primary school days were quite lacklustre and didn’t offer anything for me to feel proud about, but not anymore. There were some di… Read More
2012-04-11 09:45
“ India scarcely has ammunition to last one full week in case of a war” scream the newspaper headlines while umpteen television talks and expert debates ceaselessly point ou… Read More
2011-11-10 10:54
My Dear fellow Delhiite, What prompted me to write this is this   , (http://raagshahana.blogspot.com/2011/09/open-letter-to-delhi-boy.html) . If you have not already read it, I st… Read More
2011-10-28 15:58
Diwali is one occasion when people let loose their wallet and pull all stops to gift their near and loved ones with presents they would cherish, and cost really isn’t a barrier to such… Read More
2011-09-30 08:51
Indian government, in all its wisdom, has recently discovered that an earning of Rs. 32 per day is all that it takes for a person to be above the poverty line, the great economic divider bel… Read More
2011-09-25 02:47
In his eternal quest for truth, bliss and for inner peace, man set on foot to many a pilgrimage that stretched from the tranquil mountain peaks to placid river banks, from silent sylvan fore… Read More
2011-09-12 17:03
The tightened belt struggles hard to rein in his ever expanding waistline while the protruding tummy makes him lose his buttons at periodic intervals. The pitch dark hairs are slowly gi… Read More
2011-08-29 11:16
One of the most endearing scenes from my childhood years is the site of the vernacular calendar hung strategically at a wall in our house such that all glances fell on it very easily. The ca… Read More
2011-07-24 18:03
“Lesser affections diminish with separation; greater ones are enhanced with it. The wind that blows out a candle flame also fans a forest fire!” The crowning hair swinging gently… Read More
2011-03-19 14:33
Japan, a group of many islands in the Pacific Rim, is the land of the most enterprising, hard-working and disciplined people belonging to the Nipponese tribe. Short in physical stature… Read More
2011-02-26 14:02
The man at the cash counter extending his hand asked “Can I have your plastic please?” I had just made a few essential household purchases from the neighbourhood grocery shop and… Read More
2011-02-22 09:12
A recent survey conducted to test the level of general awareness among adult Americans revealed an alarmingly high degree of ignorance, ignorance of a few basic facts that even a primary sch… Read More

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