I returned to my blog after a couple of months, and my dashboard showed me that there was an incoming link to my blog from Anupama’s blog. When I investigated, I discovered that Anupama had chosen me for her Kreativ Blogger Award.
Thanks Anupama! Though you seem to have given me the award in July, I’ve discovered [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Life and Living’
September 14, 2009
Kreativ Blogger Award
May 29, 2009
Ulysses
As I sit researching my book, my eyes fall on lines from a poem that has always spoken to me. Ulysses by Lord Alfred Tennyson.
“Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnished, [...]
May 29, 2009
Self doubt and after
The last month has been a tremendous period of self-doubt, where I questioned many things that have been a part of my life. Amongst them, our marriage. But out of that painful introspection comes tremendous clarity, which I am not sure that I had even when I married.
So having gone to my own private hell [...]
May 26, 2009
I believe… once again
(I first wrote this post three years ago, and then forgot about it till I re-read it four days ago. I found that (unbelievably!) I would say the same thing again if I were writing this today. But I did make 7 additions and 2 modifications. Any guesses on what they could be???)
35 random thoughts [...]
February 15, 2009
The dust settles on Valentine’s Day
Bangalore celebrated a quiet Valentine’s Day this year, except for the pro-freedom protests taken out in the city.
But, there were a couple of scary incidents reported across India…
In Haryana, a couple were dragged out of their friend’s house and beaten up by a sub-inspector before an eager mob. (When did what you did in your [...]
December 31, 2008
Adieu 2008, Hola 2009
If I were to remember 2008 for two reasons, it would be because it was the year when I finally traveled to Hampi. It was also the year when I first officially got my driving license (for both a bike and a car) and learnt to drive. Yes, by the end of 2008, I actually [...]
December 1, 2008
Hope…?
Most people who visit this blog often know that of late I have felt very discouraged about the state of things in India… And had I not been married to Manoj, who still sees India & Bangalore as home, I would have very seriously considered immigrating to another country. Not because things are better elsewhere… [...]
November 28, 2008
Ah Taj!
There are some memories that will never leave you… And one of those memories for me will be those live images of the Taj in flames… As I sat glued to the television in disbelief into the early hours of Thursday morning… How? Why?
And in all those individual stories of personal loss that I feel [...]
October 4, 2008
It’s been three years
Three years in a marriage is not a lifetime. Yet, when you get up one morning to realize that you are celebrating three years of being married, you wonder how that happened so quickly. Where did the last three years pass me by in the twinkling of an eye?
Like all marriages, we’ve had [...]
October 2, 2008
Tolerance
On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti…
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We remember the Mahatma not because of what he said, but what he did.
Tolerance is not you standing on a mountain, banging your chest, and proclaiming to the world, “I am tolerant”.
That is aggressive arrogance.
Tolerance is lived in our lives everyday.
How tolerant will I be today?
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I say that my tolerance [...]
