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 !
When we went to Laos in 2016, we discovered Jack Reacher and Lee Child’s series of books with him as the main character. We got hooked and remain hooked to this day ! I had been reading Eric Van Lustbader’s books for many years now. The whole Japanese martial arts inspired series – Kaisho, Ninja … Read more
This story is from the book “Walking in Zen, Sitting in Zen” and its obviously a Zen story ! …………………………………………………………………… “Two temples were traditionally antagonistic to each other. Both priests had a small boy to run errands and both priests told the boys, ‘Don’t talk to the boy from the other temple. We are enemies!’ … Read more
Happy New Year everyone !! This year I turn 50 and I have created a list of 50 different things that I want to do as a celebration of having spent half a century on Earth. One of the things I have listed is to share 50 stories from Osho’s discourses. Osho always shared some … Read more
I hadn’t heard of Kazuo Ishiguro till he got the Nobel prize earlier this year. Its sad that I missed reading him all this while. The minute I heard his name, I immediately looked up his books on Kindle and found this title “Never let me go” which was very intriguing, so I bought it. … Read more
Yesterday while eating breakfast, our friend Subbu who was visiting with us, shared a really nice story and I wish to share it with Kejruddin aka Kejriwal, the smug “yugpurush” CM of SmogeDelhi. A learned King ruled over a vast Kingdom that had a mighty river flowing . The Kingdom was prosperous and the King … Read more
A lion cub was born in a remote jungle just around the time that some fat rats were in power. The fat rats felt dark clouds gathering but didn’t understand then why they felt scared. There was much cream to skim, carcasses whose bones had to be licked dry, nuts to be stored in safe … Read more
Krishnan and I just loved the Shiva Trilogy – The Immortals of Meluha, The secret of the Nagas and The oath of the Vayuputras. Infact Krishnan managed to read “The oath of the Vayuputras” before me and I was miffed for a few hours. All three books were “un-put-downable”, just gripping and brilliantly written. Amish … Read more