Listen to the narration or Read the story below There is something about the quality of certain encounters we have in the natural world – it can be with non-human beings or human beings, as both are very much a part of it. These encounters penetrate our soul so deeply, that words, images, expressions […]
‘ You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.’– Rumi Illustration by my beloved friend and artist – Zainab Tambawalla In the last couple of months, I encountered the words home and house several times, due to a personal project that my husband and I have been […]
Oh yes, Oh yes, there is. Here on this earth, no expression is too big or too small. This is what I hear, each time I am immersed in the dawn chorus. Let me first walk you through what this means. Come dawn, and the silence is broken by songs of different birds. While in […]
Dragonflies. That’s what’s possible. Look out of the window, and if we are in Mumbai or in any monsoon/rainy areas of the country, we will spot plenty of dragonflies now, this very season. Over the last few weeks, watching large swarms from my window – hover, fly, change directions rapidly, mate in air, prey as […]
“The words we use shape how we understand ourselves, how we interpret the world, how we treat others. Words make worlds.” Krista Tippett, Founder – On Being After the initial `How are you doing?’, the next question we are often asked during this phase has been, `Are things going back to normal…(in your building/at your […]
Nights. Have you ever spent time with nights? For the longest time, my relationship had largely been two fold – one that indicates to my body, ‘hey its night, wrap up and go to sleep’. The other, on those emotionally unrestful days when I tossed around in bed, and wondered, ‘why am I not able […]
Dawn is a beautiful part of the day. It brings with it a certain crispness, freshness, and an invitation to a new beginning. So this dawn, I went home-gathering in the rain, two things I so love (dawn and rain). Home gathering? In this monsoon, the tides have brought with them the thousands of homes, […]
Richard Feynman shares the following, as a part of a story he narrates about how when his dad took him for a walk in the woods, and together they spotted a brown-throated thrush, his father told Richard: ‘See that bird? It’s a brown-throated thrush, but in Germany it’s called a Halzenfugel, and in Chinese they call […]
We have all been home for months now. Only some of us have just started to step out. I remember that in my conversations in the first couple of months, calling this the initial phase. In labelling so, maybe there was a feeling that soon there would be the middle phase, and then there would […]
HOLDING IT IN ITS ESSENCE: Today is celebrated as `Guru Purnima’ – Resources say that this day was dedicated to enlightened humans who shared their knowledge with little or no monetary expectations, and were celebrated with festivity to express gratitude. There are beautiful stories from Hinduism, Buddhism, legends, folktales, and more about the significance of […]