An uplifting daily fix
by Zephyr • April 14, 2013 • 77 Comments
Faith, they say, can move mountains. And what better place to find it than a house of worship, where the faith of thousands effectively makes it throb with positive energy?
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Cyber Nag
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Thank you!
by Zephyr • February 2, 2013 • 115 Comments
A note of thanks to my friends and readers on the eve of the third blogaversary of the Cybernag.
Read more →Is ‘big fat’ a status symbol?
by Zephyr • January 22, 2013 • 118 Comments
Gifting has now become a crazy game of catch-me-if-you-can, where the sentiment behind the gift is lost in the competition to show off. Weren’t gifts supposed to be something to be selected lovingly, given with a lot of love and cherished?
Read more →Travelling to Lonely Places with Pico Iyer
by Zephyr • January 14, 2013 • 34 Comments
Listening with your heart
by Zephyr • January 8, 2013 • 119 Comments
Listening is an art, a therapy, a spiritual act, no less. But for listening to be effective, the listener has to do it with her heart, else the one being listened to finds no solace.
Read more →Of hypocrisy, selfishness, cowardice and more…
by Zephyr • December 31, 2012 • 113 Comments
Standing up against injustice is not part of our psyches, at least not when it doesn’t concern us directly. Some truths are uncomfortable: We undertake online causes and join candle vigils, but when it comes to the crunch, we baulk at sticking our necks out for the victim. We make a volte face in...
Read more →Chalees saal baad – a journey back in time
by Zephyr • December 27, 2012 • 102 Comments
It was a reunion that made us forty years younger as we went back to school and relived the memories, acting out some of them, even as the spouses, children and teachers looked indulgently on…
Read more →The gift of life — Organ transplants
by Zephyr • December 20, 2012 • 91 Comments
Grief can do a lot of things to people, most of them negative -- including hatred and violence. But grief is at its positive best when a family shattered by the death of a loved one in a traumatic road accident comes forward to donate the organs, because even in death, there is hope...
Read more →Mega stores or mega sores?
by Zephyr • December 10, 2012 • 99 Comments
Lucky are those who can happily shop in a mega store or mall, finding all they want under one roof. I have to shop at two or three different places as some of the items are only available at certain stores.
Read more →A lesson in faith and surrender
by Zephyr • December 1, 2012 • 157 Comments
‘Why do you need to breathe, when I am breathing for you?’ he asks me simply. And then I let go and stop struggling to breathe. For the record, I didn’t die.
Read more →Another festival of lights
by Zephyr • November 25, 2012 • 70 Comments
The festival of Karthigai is as important as, or rather even more important than Diwali for Tamilians. It is the original festival of lights when every house and temple is aglow with the light of hundreds of lamps.
Read more →A date with Twitter
by Zephyr • November 20, 2012 • 111 Comments
The Sunday Book Club is so informal and the discussions are such fun that to my greatest delight, even I tweet like mad, getting replies and retweets too!
Read more →Earthen Diya memories
by Zephyr • November 11, 2012 • 155 Comments
Even as times change, there are some things that remain constant, such as the enchantment of the diya burning bright on Diwali, discovers my guest blogger Arti.
Read more →When folk arts and crafts turn designer
by Zephyr • November 3, 2012 • 92 Comments
Folk arts and crafts are slowly vanishing from villages and finding their way into TV studios, swank auditoriums and posh living rooms, in their designer avatars. Should we be thankful that they are surviving, at least this way?
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