This blog is our space to write about our thoughts, views and notes about our travels. Osho owned 90 Rolls Royces while being a Sanyasi ….. The so-felt contradiction is very fascinating and hence the name !
I found out about this book by Ken Puddicombe on Rosaliene Bacchus’ blog – Three Worlds One Vision. Read her fantastic review of this book – Down Independence Boulevard and Other Stories by Ken Puddicombe. I wanted to read this book since its based in Guyana and the steady diet of American/British based novels was getting … Read more
Like many of you, I have seen the movie based on this book and the movie fascinated me enough to read the book. I am so glad that I read this book because it’s detailed, written with a lot of love and gives an invaluable glimpse into Tibet’s culture and traditions. Once you read this … Read more
There is a beautiful story of the Buddha. He went to meet his father after he became the Buddha and his father thought his son had come home… but Buddha told him, “your son Siddharth is dead, I am not your son.” His father got really angry and shouted at the Buddha “how can you … Read more
For the first time, I listened to an Independence Day speech in full. We switched the TV on at 6.50 am and didn’t even have tea till our Prime Minister was nearly 40 minutes into his speech !! What am amazing speech and am sure, there will be many things the critics will find in … Read more
Today while searching for something else, I found this article of mine from 2008. Sadly, it’s so relevant even now .. I had written this for a magazine called Mind Positive that’s printed for a forum I was part of long back. ————————- Is Afzal Independent ???? On August 15, 2008 the 17th Prime Minister … Read more
Dear Bapu, I was born exactly 100 years after you and was brought up being told about your doctrines, your experiments with truth and the non-violence principle. My dad infact had your 3 monkeys as a display item always at home. As I grew up and learnt a bit more, understood life a bit more, … Read more