Miracle of Mind by Sadhguru is an app for meditation. The app launches today (Mahashivratri day, 26th February 2025). I had the privilege of an early access to the app and this post is about my thoughts on the app and the initiative. We know that in this era of Attention Economy, getting and…
The Little Black Classics 02 – As Kingfishers catch fire is a collection of poetry by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Gerard Manley Hopkins (July 1844 – June 1889) was an English poet and Jesuit priest. He innovated a new form of poetry – Sprung Rhythm. I like prose better than poetry. To add to that,…
Interestingly she is not one of the central characters. In the tapestry of characters that Raaj Shaandilyaa has woven, she is merely the “Hero ki Behen”. But, what a delight she is. I am talking about Mallika Sherawat as Chanda Rani in Vicky Vidya ka Woh Wala Video. She is back in a Bollywood…
At the end of the last comics, Nagraj ki Kabr, we had questions. The questions were – whether Nagraj can use some of his snake like power to save himself and Romo from the grave of hundred of tons of earth. Nagraj ka Badla (Revenge of Nagraj), the third Nagraj comics, starts from there….
It has been quite long since I read any classical literature. At the start of the last year, I had decided to spend the year reading Hindi Literature classics. While I did that for a couple of months, the reading shifted to other subjects. Now it is the start of another year. Keeping my…
In the previous post on Nagraj, I spoke about the origin story of Nagraj. The second comics of Nagraj, Nagraj ki Kabr (Grave of Nagraj), is also his first mission as a fighter for good. At the end of the first one, he is free from the mind-control capsule that Professor Naagmani had inserted…
In my post on the “Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman” I had written about how my reading choices over the past few years have been driven by what I need to learn. The pleasure of reading and discovering things organically had gone away. And inspired by the Four Thousand Weeks, I had decided…
I hope that this will be the first post in a series of several posts on things from my growing up years. My nostalgia about my childhood got triggered by my children. My elder one is twelve now, and for the past couple of years it has been quite fun to tell him that…
In some of my earlier posts, I have mentioned that I buy a lot of books. I buy whatever catches my fancy and then several books on adjacent topics or genre. But I read based on either a project I have set for myself – a specific theme, a special genre, a collection or…
Dear Readers, this is something that I have been wanting to do for quite a while. The idea germinated on India’s 75th Independence day. This was the day when India entered Amrit Kaal – the twenty five years leading to 2047, when India targets to be a developed nation. The thought was that if…