Author Archives: Zephyr
When I played hide and seek with my family
It is a great challenge to hide things from the L&M and brats…
Why temples should not be made into tourist spots
Call me old-fashioned, but I am one of those who don’t like to see our temples becoming ‘must-see’ spots in the itinerary of a tourist.
Of mice, boy and a pair of flip-flops
The boy had learnt his lesson in compassion from two mice – one a big field rat in a trap and one a tiny dead mouse.
Guru Purnima – the day of Guru Puja
A teacher might be a Guru, but a Guru is not just a teacher….A Guru Purnima tribute to our great Gurus.
Celebrate festivals with joy, not pain!
Festivals need not be tension-ridden because they come with a whole lot of rituals attached to them. Why not follow our own rituals and make them enjoyable and meaningful?
The ordeal of my garbage run
The L&M worries that some Corona virus might stick to my hair when I go out and since I can’t afford to wash my hair every day, I have to plan the garbage run meticulously to coincide with my hair-wash day. And that entails more planning.
Mantras are powerful, but I love my ‘shloka-pills’!
Like a child reaching out to one particular relative in a large joint family to redress a specific complaint, so can we invoke any manifestation of the Supreme, to get out problem sorted out by chanting a shloka dedicated to the Deity.
A cook and her cleaver do never part
Soon, I became a knife-fiend, making a beeline for the knife-counter in any department store I happened to pass by.
‘Ye dil maange more’ of a higher kind
As the country desperately fights COVID-19, in the locked-in mode, what we need is the Vikram Batra-kind of a loftier ‘more’ in our dils, to make us better human beings.
Our elders had the best Corona-compliant routines!
Social distancing, washing one’s hands and feet after coming from outside, washing one’s hands every time one came into the kitchen to do something or take anything, quarantine – they did it all. Believe me, they would have set the best examples for Corona-compliance!
Ringing of bells brings joy and positive energy
At the most basic level, bells are harbingers of joy and celebration. Go ahead! Ring that bell – small and large!
…..And I don’t think it was Valentine’s Day
Romance can be found in the unlikeliest things–even in a warm bhutta!
A meet-up of food-cousins, twins, triplets and more-4
When Hodge Podge talked of taking his cousins with him back to Canada, there were squeals of delight from his cousins.
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