A 2008 selfcentered story for you
posted by Max Simon on January 03, 2009 at 10:02 AM
As the new-year approaches, I wanted to take this opportunity
to share with you the selfcentered story from 2008 - both for
your entertainment and for my release. So here goes.
In the last twelve months, I’m convinced that I have learned
more about life, love, business, silence, and success than I
have in the last twenty-six years of my life. My story, which
seems to be unfolding totally out of my control and
simultaneously completely guided by my own wisdom, has
been nothing short of a rollercoaster.
I began this year with a vision – to inspire one million people
to meditate. I had no idea how I was going to reach them (or
who I was talking to for that matter) but none-the-less, I was
fired up. It was a big dream; and I had a plan, money to get me
through the first phase, and more courage than I myself
expected. Blend that with a strong ego and a willful desire to
succeed and I had the ingredients for meditation domination.
Or so I thought.
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the selfcentered story - chapter one
posted by Max Simon on December 15, 2008 at 09:23 PM
I would like to tell you a sweet little story about a powerful
movement that is changing the world one meditation at a
time so get cozy, grab a cup of hot apple cider, and curl up
next to the fire. This one will warm your heart.
Growing up, I used to be really annoying (haha...how's that
for an opening?). Because I was SO much smaller than
everyone else (4'11" in high school), I unconsciously
cultivated a nasty case of little-man's syndrome. If someone
wasn't paying attention to me, I got louder. If I still wasn't
heard, I would do something outrageous, like insult them,
to get their attention. From all angles, it wasn't pretty.
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The selfcentered Pay It Forward Experiment
posted by Max Simon on December 04, 2008 at 08:20 AM
Life is such a roller-coaster.
After my powerful time in silence at the 10-day retreat, integration
back into world has been more challenging than I expected. The
traffic has felt more intense, the noise has been louder, and the
world has seemed more chaotic.
My refuge has been silence, stillness, and our tribe.
From this, I am more convinced than ever that selfcentered has
something worthy to offer this world. In fact, I believe we have
two invaluable offerings: meditation & community.
So with this in mind, we have decided to test something bold.
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The Fermentation of Light
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on November 04, 2008 at 12:55 AM
The Fermentation of Light, my heart notes in passing by, some of which have been shared with you in this cyber space, is now available at Amazon.Com. The foreword written by Deepak describes the book as follows; “The poems contained in this beautiful volume are full of seeking, longing, sensitivity, vulnerability, pain, anguish, joy, love, and the intoxication of divine ecstasy. They are the flavors through which the human heart expresses itself as it searches for unity consciousness.”
Ever since I can remember I have been mesmerized by the incredible phenomenon of being alive and aware. The magic of it all. Throughout my youth, I was desperately searching for the meaning of this ephemeral beauty that bloomed and withered in a short span of time, and that seemed to be unevenly distributed in terms of peoples opportunities for joy and choice.
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International Day of Peace
posted by Diane Williams on September 22, 2008 at 10:10 AM
International Day of Peace, September 21st http://internationaldayofpeace.org
is devoted to commemorating and strengthening the ideals of peace both within and among all nations and peoples.
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Global Cures
posted by Kanika Sethi on August 29, 2008 at 06:48 PM
Some of you may have caught Deepak Chopra's show on Syrius/XM radio a few weeks ago when he spoke with Vikas Sukhatme, a renoun physician and cancer researcher at Harvard Medical School. Vikas and his wife Vidula have started a brilliant organization called Global Cures.
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The Little Korean Mozart
posted by Mallika Chopra on July 20, 2008 at 07:20 AM
One of our bloggers sent this video to me - this little 5 year old girl, adopted by her parents, is a musical genius. Watch how she listens to music once, and then plays...
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Timeless times
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on July 03, 2008 at 09:46 PM
These are timeless times
those that are always gone,
the inevitable ones.
They gather like north winds
their cold fingers piercing the skin.
All lights in the distance are twinkling
senselessly.
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This Omnivore's Dilemma
posted by Kanika Sethi on June 15, 2008 at 11:51 AM
I consider myself a "foodie" in every sense of the word. I LOVE to eat good food, fresh food, home cooked food, gourmet food, food that I've tried from many different parts of the world, even fast food (well, some of it...). One of my favorite activities is deciphering the ingredients in a dish served at a restaurant. Was that lemongrass in my curry? A little bit of dried coriander? Was it honey that made the dish sweeter or brown sugar?
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Beyond Stillness
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on May 18, 2008 at 06:08 AM
Again this vision of open eyes into usual mornings extraordinaire
Light flows are painting images of outside, the universe is there.
Sounds cascade down inner caverns and labyrinths, and plays music in my brain
Awakening from memory-dust the ghosts of past, the dreams of future.
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Spooky Action at a Distance: DNA's "Impossible" Telepathic Properties
posted by Renee Reeser Zelnick on April 27, 2008 at 05:57 PM
I'm sure this is old news for this crowd:
DNA has been found to have a bizarre ability to put itself together, even at a distance, when according to known science it shouldn't be able to. Explanation: None, at least not yet.
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GOD IS A JOKE: AND GURU PITKA IS LAUGHING
posted by Gotham Chopra on April 24, 2008 at 11:03 PM
Is it so wrong to crave a coca cola in the middle of the night? Am I fallible because my mind occasionally drifts in meditation? Am I a deviant Indian because I cannot truly sit Indian style? Should I be ashamed for becoming aroused during a very intimate lap dance?
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Pangea Day
posted by Kanika Sethi on April 14, 2008 at 11:34 AM
Just caught this online -- a moving rendition of Indian's National Anthem sung by a Kenyan choir. (They also have a video of a Japanese opera singer singing for Turkey, Australians doing the Lebanese Anthem and the French singing The Star Spangled Banner.)
Here's the link. Enjoy! I really love this kind of thing.
I am ready
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on April 05, 2008 at 07:18 AM
I am ready to fold my world
And place it in my shirt pocket
I am sorry folks as you all
are going to be crumpled
close to my heart.
But I am ready to fold my life
and keep on walking.
A Blue Spill
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on March 30, 2008 at 06:43 AM
All blue has spilled now
the skin is open and raw
Everything is scorched
it has been a long day of forever
There is happiness of funerals
and a sadness of weddings.
A sensation of lost and found
at the same moment of time
Spaceless horizons
crowding my chest.
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Soul of Taj
posted by Vikas Khanna on March 05, 2008 at 09:57 PM
On Feb 4th,"World Chefs Cooking for Life" hosted "Soul of Taj" at the Taj Mahal in India, the second event in the series of culinary events at the World Wonders. Soul of Taj supports Sankara's Mission to Help Eradicate Curable Blindness in India - Vision 20/20 by 2020.
The first event in the World Chefs series was held at The Pyramids of Giza in Egypt to raise awareness for the needs of travelers with disabilities.
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Pee with the door open
posted by Max Simon on March 02, 2008 at 08:47 AM
For the last week, two of my good friends have been staying with me. Malik is an amazing conscious musician who performed at our last event and will again at our next event and Shulay is vibrant woman with deep insights and a warm soul. Both will soon be Awareness Architects.
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Of Love and Elixir: Your favourite Love Poem(s)
posted by DK Matai on February 29, 2008 at 10:15 AM
Dear Friends, do you have a favourite love poem? Maybe you have two or three! Please share! Thanks Mieke, Lily, Stan, Char, Kate, Bonnie, North, C, Keith, Irvine, Shehla and Koral. Your choices are outstanding! Well done!
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Don’t call me today
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on January 21, 2008 at 04:16 AM
Don’t call me today, for I am inside eyes so loving.
Eyes that are going away.
The glances given by those windows of light,
illumined many smiles in my face
Adoringly they watched me move in delight
making me the sole object of his affection.
There was never a complaint or disdain
loyalty was never in question.
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A single embrace of Mother
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on January 12, 2008 at 02:04 PM
Today words sting like angry wasps.
Concepts spoken, written, about everything.
This endless chit chat of mind asserting.
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Relativity
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on January 12, 2008 at 06:50 AM
There is no pain like inner pain
when everything bounces hard
on the hermetic and impenetrable bubble
that encapsulates you.
When you enter the mood of brood
and remembrance.
When you are overwhelmed
and don’t know what to do.
This Joy of Pure Being
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on January 07, 2008 at 02:06 AM
Beyond the high speeds of those imaginary particles we describe
and much further than the field of infinite potentiality of the new verse,
there lies a most shy, omnipotent, innocent and inexplicable joy.
Let’s make believe, like little girls playing at serving invisible tea
that we are hearing this music unheard, and dance, just dance
Bring along the so-called sins and other deviations that spice up the rhythm
yes why not, also the sac of virtues and credits you can spare.
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The Golden Rule & Wisdom based Global Economy
posted by DK Matai on January 04, 2008 at 03:07 PM
Dear Friends, early in the New Year -- in the context of The Philanthropia -- the subject of unbiased and balanced judgement came up. How could one harness creativity, invention, empowerment, innovation and excellence in the 21st Century whilst dealing with its flip side, ie, exorbitant financial reward, unmitigated power, potential-for-damage and runaway chain-reactions with unintended consequences.
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A New Year Yearning
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on December 31, 2007 at 06:31 PM
These marvelous interactions,
of textures, aromas, flavors, sights and rhythms,
they spill over in symphonies infinite
over our minds and feelings.
All the seconds, minutes, and days of our lives,
their reflections are reflected in mirrors. .
Everything is inundated with a sea of energy waves
converging, resonating, distorting.
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The Power of One!
posted by DK Matai on December 28, 2007 at 09:34 AM
Dear Friends, One core belief we embrace is The Power of One. We focus on the One, knowingly or unknowingly, having all been created from One source. This philosophy encompasses simple concepts and is visible in each and every day of our life whether at work, home or play...
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Just a Morning Wish
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on December 25, 2007 at 08:16 AM
This ineffable feeling of inexplicable joy
seeps in through inner doors so secret.
It opens hidden alcoves on occasion, unwarranted.
No special mantras can take you there, or efforts in prayer,
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Plato and auntie Amelia
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on December 20, 2007 at 06:17 PM
Caught up between Plato and my aunt Amelia,
trying to understand this cold weather of blood.
Balancing the act between dancing daisies, smiles and hips,
and sharp knives of logic and blade, that cut through all expectations.
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The not yet day
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on December 18, 2007 at 06:56 PM
This day cannot be.
It has not happened yet
No headlines or buzz for hype
No plans or theories to describe.
It has not been imagined.
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8 Years of Video
posted by Saira Mohan on December 18, 2007 at 01:44 PM
Jonathan Keller has taken a photo of himself everyday for the past 8 years. The result is a video of a man in his 20s turning into a man in his 30s...
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The Original Sin
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on December 09, 2007 at 08:35 PM
Fear of intermittency naturally caught up with mind. It is an everyday thing. I looked out, introspected, and interacted. That vacuum of contrasting content was spilled all over. It felt like a real mess. I decided to pick-up everything, to reorder each object neatly, in harmony.
Of course it was too broad and complex a task for limitation, so I summoned imagination, and with her on board, time became perpetual.
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As Above So What?!
posted by Renee Reeser Zelnick on December 08, 2007 at 06:59 PM
Did you feel ambivalent about the hard-sell, materially-driven style of “The Secret”? If so, check out the new book by my friend Maja D’Aoust (Co-edited with Adam Parfrey), The Secret Source: The Law of Attraction is One of Seven Hermetic Laws: Here Are the Other Six
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Sometimes
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on December 08, 2007 at 03:28 PM
Sometimes I weigh a planet or two and cannot measure the circumference of my self as it extends beyond boundaries never understood.
Sometimes I feel fragrances of coffee and roses in the palms of my hands, in a strange mélange of romances and morning papers, and I imagine myself in a Vienna cafe my coat wet from the snow, my head filled with some new waltz dawning.
Molecular Waltz
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on December 02, 2007 at 08:00 AM
Molecules waltz in pairs so animatedly that they make their own music. It reverberates everywhere, particularly in the listening. These recombinations are so fascinating and artistic, each one of them, generating, procreating, and irradiating energies and beauty. The dance of molecules is just magnificent.
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Diary
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on November 25, 2007 at 03:37 PM
A long longing it has been,
betrayed only by my own partying.
Unavoidable it was,
since growing
does takes place in time.
Intelectual property
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on November 20, 2007 at 09:29 PM
Surrounded by awe
dreaming landscapes of reality.
Walking by, as a child,
in amazement at the exuberance.
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Fallopian tubes
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on November 18, 2007 at 07:49 AM
Take a break, as you flutter eyes and wings
so you can see and soar.
Multitudes surround you with animosities,
intent, demands, praise and complaints.
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The deep breath of Brahma
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on November 04, 2007 at 05:03 AM
Therein, lies the lie.
Thus, it is not false or true,
just this particular way words ooze
out of minds in bursts, as they fly.
Crossing spaces imagined in time.
Becoming pulses that bloom in fingertips,
play themselves like music onto screens of magic
searching for some sense, trying to capture rhyme.
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Creation, everyday
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on October 30, 2007 at 06:31 AM
Help me to the concrete,
for I can’t bear the divine
Inundate with theory this mind,
fill it with new and the obsolete.
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Bombay Traffic Policeman
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on October 23, 2007 at 07:23 PM
I fell, like a giant in an anthill.
The whole body of a Bombay traffic policeman,
flat on the street.
There was sound of laughter, at the falling thunder,
and blaring horns, catcalls, and whistles,
as well as the ruminant sounds of the Bombay
I remembered an era ago.
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What is your equation?
posted by Saira Mohan on October 21, 2007 at 06:44 AM
Here's mine....
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Shake The Planet: Inspiring The Next Generation
posted by DK Matai on October 16, 2007 at 01:25 PM
Dear Friends, let me introduce Vicki Lynn, a producer of integrated media events and president of a multi media production company, Satellite Events...
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You Alone Exist
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on October 14, 2007 at 05:11 PM
Now, after the presence, what is left of the ordinary walking about?
Everything is flooded with yearning, and this nostalgia clutches my breath.
There is no longer any fun in breathing, or anything else.
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Nobel Prize for Peace: Many congratulations Al Gore
posted by DK Matai on October 12, 2007 at 10:36 AM
We wish to share the personal message we have sent to Al Gore. You may enjoy reading the presentation Mr Gore gave at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in London with a response to one of the questions I asked post the keynote.
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Nakedness
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on September 29, 2007 at 07:47 PM
Nakedness reveals nooks and corners where stars nest.
Hearts then must be careful with the winds of words,
otherwise they will be like sharp swords,
wounding inadvertently the soul exposed,
creating terrible pains.
The smile of the Beloved
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on September 25, 2007 at 02:39 AM
It shines like the original spark of whim
that ignited the fires of universe.
It is hidden in mischievous eyes,
as father and mother of creativity.
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Existentialism
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on September 21, 2007 at 06:03 PM
Inwardly cascading they spill
subtleties of indefatigable moments.
Serene like dew on flower petals,
they glide in the surfaces, of the palpable
and collapse inevitably in the nooks and corners
of the inexistent spaces.
All multicolored bubbles thin as they spin
with Earth’s turns.
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A wish for one and all
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on September 08, 2007 at 08:29 AM
I wish that music fills up all of your life spaces and that the most subtle angels, take your hands and walk you over through the enchanted cosmic forests of existence. That the Ocean spills in your eyes and replenishes all of your moments with depth and tenderness, that starlight melts in sidereal rain and floods every secret orbital of your body and its impossible nexus with your soul, to provoke an eternal smile in your flowering lip gardens.
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A Falling Songbird
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on September 02, 2007 at 09:33 PM
Today a song bird fell in my heart.
Stubbornly wounded, he sang and sang
I played deaf as always, so busy…
with this and that thing of mind
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Chit Happens!
posted by Renee Reeser Zelnick on August 30, 2007 at 12:35 AM
Art or Arson?
The Man, symbol and center of the Burning Man Festival in the Nevada desert was burned by another man. Performance artist Paul Addis, 35, of San Francisco was arrested by local authorities in connection with the blaze of 40-foot structure, which is traditionally burned down on the final Saturday night of the weeklong event of Radical Self-Expression.
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Purpose
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on August 25, 2007 at 10:55 PM
“Purpose presumes a direction and since Existence, being everything and everywhere, cannot have any direction; directions must always be in nothing and lead nowhere. Hence to have a purpose is to create a false goal. Love alone is devoid of all purpose and a spark of Divine Love sets fire to all purposes. The Goal of Life in Creation is to arrive at purposelessness, which is the state of Reality” Meher Baba
A gulp of space
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on August 22, 2007 at 10:10 PM
Caresses melt into skin and are absorbed by inner invisible fluids, that carry them to dimensions not yet measured by the different scopes we have invented in our fear.
Old hands of mother. I remember them, subtle, fragile, healing my unknown ailments so knowingly. They melted in my skin, those wrinkled hands.
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Guptara Twins: Conspiracy of Calaspia - Success!
posted by DK Matai on August 18, 2007 at 03:10 PM
Dear Friends, It is just over nine months since we wrote about the Guptara Twins and their fantasy novel, Conspiracy of Calaspia.
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Intimacy of moons
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on August 14, 2007 at 07:55 PM
Light-hurt, eyes bewildered,
an eerie awe percolating, like coffee
in the morning.
Atoms have split open
like bubbles of nothing.
Their entrails emanate energy,
vibrancy.
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All of a sudden
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on August 12, 2007 at 10:58 AM
The Beloved walked in, unplanned.
His grace of garb, his surrounding fragrance of light and rose,
that innocence supreme of power uncontained.
Each step a moving note of rhythm, a Sunday of love, a whisper seductive.
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HQR*: Remembering Amir Khusrau (1253-1325 AD)
posted by DK Matai on August 10, 2007 at 09:48 PM
Hazrat Amir Khusrau wrote in Persian:
Man tu shudam, tu man shudi
man tan shudam, tu jaan shudi;
Taa kas nagoyad baad azeen
man deegaram, tu deegari!
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Behind it all
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on August 05, 2007 at 05:59 PM
There are secrets so secret, they have no contents contained.
Intimacy so deep it never surfaces.
We are wading floods within, far from everything,
and smiles and proprieties don’t reach these places.
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Eyes within eyes
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on August 04, 2007 at 03:35 PM
Today sadness floods water
and fields weep green
Mistiness collapses like mountains
within my journeying soul
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Delicate Boundaries
posted by Saira Mohan on August 02, 2007 at 06:38 AM
What'll they think up next...?
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The Himalayan Feast
posted by Vikas Khanna on August 01, 2007 at 12:10 AM
In 1993 I was working at the Soaltee Oberoi, Kathmandu, Nepal at Food and Beverage Production. An amazing experience to be living right under the most astonishing of God's creations - The Himalayas.
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Intimately remote
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on July 31, 2007 at 05:21 AM
Walking without destination, yet forward.
Inside whirlwinds of decay.
Everything passes, day by day
First-born words, cascade on my lips
and die just as pronounced,
like drunken dreams
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Sufi Prayer by Dara Shikoh: What shall I do?
posted by DK Matai on July 30, 2007 at 03:38 PM
Dear Friends, we would like to share a Sufi prayer with you, which is often attributed to Dara Shikoh (1615–1659), who was the eldest son of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan and his wife Mumtaz Mahal, in whose memory the Taj Mahal stands.
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Wahan Kaun Hai Tera? or Who is yours over there?
posted by DK Matai on July 16, 2007 at 07:47 PM
This is one of our favourite songs sung by the late S D Burman in the movie "Guide", which is based on the novel by R K Narayan and made by the uncles of Shekhar Kapur -- Vijay and Dev Anand.
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Spilled latte
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on July 16, 2007 at 06:06 AM
Collectively aggregated intentions of budding,
coalescing in light forms, these constellations.
Inventing every millisecond, recombinations,
spatial changes, to form an energy producing kiss.
Molecules so intimate they blush as they twist.
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An Experience (Last Part)
posted by Saira Mohan on July 11, 2007 at 01:20 AM
Samburu Warriors, as it turns out, are rather ritualistic people. In fact, they have one of the world’s most commanding social systems altogether. While certainly not the most prolific, it is powerful in that it is so pervasive throughout their culture. To say their beliefs are ‘strictly adhered to’ would be an understatement to say the least.
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The Man in Black
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on July 08, 2007 at 02:52 PM
Ghost images are fluffy in my mind’s space.
The infinite dark scenario behind my eyes
is overpopulated with faces, smiling and passing by.
They gather in torrents like down pouring rain
speaking greetings in all sorts of forms, asserting presence.
Requesting attention as we co-create our world.
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An Experience (Part III)
posted by Saira Mohan on July 08, 2007 at 01:39 AM
The day had now, most certainly, turned into dusk. We were walking for some bit of time. Off into the distance, I could see something that looked like a man made hut. Perhaps we were heading in that direction. Now, with my red warrior still leading the paces by quite a few steps, I was left sufficiently enough alone to completely take in the world around me with an unexpected degree of peace.
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Remembering 7/7 London & 11/7 Mumbai: The Far Pavilions of shared Imperial Past & Dynamic Present
posted by ATCA on July 08, 2007 at 12:39 AM
We are grateful to Michael E Ward, a British subject, for his submission to ATCA from Mumbai, India, "Remembering 7th July 05, London, and 11th July 06, Mumbai -- The Far Pavilions of a shared Imperial Past & Dynamic Present."
Candida Höfer: An Indelible Impression
posted by DK Matai on July 06, 2007 at 05:02 AM
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An Experience (Part II)
posted by Saira Mohan on July 03, 2007 at 12:56 AM
To say that I was merely ‘surrounded by vegetation' would have been an understatement: it was everywhere. And, at times, the dense tumbleweed-like bushes and shrubs were so great that it blocked certain views that one would normally have in their periphery. This left me feeling unsure about what was just around the bending wilderness...
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The Luminous Numinous
posted by Renee Reeser Zelnick on July 02, 2007 at 11:08 PM
To paraphrase the great Rudolf Otto, the Numinous can be described as a distinctive experience of God, ineffable and transcendent, the primary source of beauty and love. Feelings of awe, fascination and elements of overpowering-ness, urgency, and that which is "Wholly Other" are present in the numinous experience.
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What is Success?
posted by Deepak Chopra on June 25, 2007 at 10:53 AM
My definition of success is: 1.) The progressive realization of worthy goals 2.) The ability to love and have compassion 3.) To be in touch with the creative source within.
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The old man and the rum
posted by Rahul Pandita on June 23, 2007 at 09:53 AM
Many years ago, an old man took the above path, one moonless night, in Lansdowne. He was going home, after visiting a friend’s place. It was quite late in the night, and the man had had a bit too much to drink.
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TEN THOUSAND EYES
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on June 23, 2007 at 05:51 AM
Ten thousand eyes became my own anew
As I unfurled my arms, in an embrace to see
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Sometimes it Hurts, My Beloved
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on June 15, 2007 at 04:07 PM
Endearment is so long now
that it crosses every boundary without papers,
lingers on porches and gardens of yesterday,
soars into space like an aimless moon bird.
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Awake in paradox
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on June 09, 2007 at 05:53 AM
Voices in my dreams urged in contradiction
“remember the Beloved to forget everything,
forget everything so that you might remember him”
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Just Mellow Moments
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on June 07, 2007 at 05:52 AM
Consciousness meanders softly everywhere,
like an overflowing river.
Absorbing every drop of light and dark,
in outsides and insides woven, as life.
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Images
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on June 03, 2007 at 05:16 AM
Images all around, they surround.
Every possibility of space and time.
coalesces kaleidoscopically in shapely mirages,
projected by a magic insubstantial essence.
The Walrus and The Carpenter: Probable Answer(s)
posted by DK Matai on May 28, 2007 at 02:00 AM
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The Walrus and The Carpenter: What does it mean?
posted by DK Matai on May 27, 2007 at 07:12 AM
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IF...Yours is the Earth and Everything that's in It!
posted by DK Matai on May 24, 2007 at 02:48 PM
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Zenith; a conversation with the Beloved
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on May 12, 2007 at 07:43 AM
I hurriedly walked alongside, trying to match his graceful gait flowing through garden spaces like enamored comets in nights of Brahma. It was so sunny and bright and I was so happy, because with the Beloved again in the garden I need not think much about the flowers, they were all blooming for him.
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Henry David Thoreau: Conscience
posted by DK Matai on May 07, 2007 at 04:00 AM
Conscience is instinct bred in the house,
Feeling and Thinking propagate the sin
By an unnatural breeding in and in...
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The Beloved
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on May 06, 2007 at 06:22 AM
So many books have fallen on my hands. Many I have read, trying to understand sequences of words so elegantly written. I have admired the passionate insistence to try to decipher the hidden wonders of being.
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Shakespeare's Sonnet CXLVI -- 146
posted by DK Matai on April 24, 2007 at 03:44 AM
Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth,
[...] these rebel powers that thee array;
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Materialism to the Pipes o' Panpsychism: What is your TRUTH?
posted by Renee Reeser Zelnick on April 15, 2007 at 05:45 PM
A few years ago, I was wonderfully lost, wandering around the streets of Paris. Trying to get my bearings in a beautifully historic neighborhood, I’d stopped by chance, in front of a row of lovely old homes. Turning around, I noticed a small plaque on one wall, claiming the house was a former home of famed French philosopher Rene Descartes.
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Threads of Light
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on April 15, 2007 at 06:21 AM
This ocean-wet music
paints green rolling hills inside,
I see them upon walking the path
towards any destination.
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Nights are tough
posted by Rahul Pandita on April 13, 2007 at 09:36 PM
Eleven years have passed in this city. Next to where you are breaking your promise of serving breakfast only to me, I remember buying a book from my first salary: Safdar Hashmi - The fifth flame. Life had just begun to explore new theatres of existence.
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Interruption for Joy
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on April 07, 2007 at 06:12 AM
Every word has become a sword
Everything is so wound up
Like cords left to their own
In a forgotten chest of drawers
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This awareness of new
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on April 05, 2007 at 09:41 AM
Somehow, you all have made a deep impression on me.
In this brief passing by ,
I have befriended you and remember you
unbeknownst, from every remote location.
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Going Potty
posted by Suchitra Krishnamoorthi on April 01, 2007 at 10:03 PM
I’ve never been much into religious mythology-frankly have never understood it or even tried to . As kids everytime my father(his ancestors were temple priests ) handed us copies of religious texts we ran away in horror. He even tried the comics-but I traded the Amar Chitra Katha’s for Caspar,(the baby with the cute cute bald head and cuddly bottom) Archie (I was Betty-not Veronica) and Phantom (the man with the mask was so intriguing!)
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Apparently the World Cup is on
posted by Gotham Chopra on March 26, 2007 at 08:40 PM
And I, a self-proclaimed Sports nut, don't know squat about what's going on with arguably the world's second most popular sport (I'm placing futbol #1).
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Universe: Revealing Our Modern Mythology
posted by Saira Mohan on March 22, 2007 at 06:44 AM
I wanted to share this with you...
Universe
Faith...
posted by Suchitra Krishnamoorthi on March 17, 2007 at 04:56 AM
faith-a-faith-a-faith
you gotta have faith-a-faith-a-faith
HQR: Linking Ancient & Modern: WWW of Worship
posted by DK Matai on March 16, 2007 at 02:15 AM
Our friends Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan, the London Bureau Chiefs of The Washington Post, have been researching the global rise and participation of multiple-faiths, far flung religious communities, and advancement of collective spiritual thought enabled by 21st century communications technology...
T K Jayaraaman, Sri Rangam temple and The Internet
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Random Suff
posted by Gotham Chopra on March 15, 2007 at 08:59 PM
I've been away too long! Been struggling with what to blog since I am so out of the loop. Here's what's top of mind:
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The Art of Healing
posted by Renee Reeser Zelnick on March 11, 2007 at 03:39 PM
I have a friend who convinced she is not creative. She’s always telling me what a great artist I am, and that she’s my biggest fan. What she fails to realize is, that I am her biggest fan. She too is an artist. Her Medium? Healing.
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Pursuit of happyness
posted by Rahul Pandita on March 11, 2007 at 09:51 AM
What do I tell you? And how? Let me try...
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Holistic Quantum Relativity Project: Glossary v0.2
posted by DK Matai on March 02, 2007 at 02:38 PM
Dear Friends, thanks to your outstanding input, we have concluded the preliminary stage of the HQR project! Well done! Now, the next step is the common definition of key terms and phrases in Glossary v0.2. Feel free to suggest new terms, definitions & refinements; we seek more HQR Scientific terms.
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HQR: Tagore Einstein: Science, Spirituality & Music
posted by DK Matai on February 17, 2007 at 01:43 PM
In the context of Holistic Quantum Relativity's Socratic Dialogue it is useful to note that the Nobel Laureates Prof Albert Einstein (1921) and Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1913) met at Einstein's residence in Berlin, Germany, on 14th July 1930, as photographed. The recorded conversation elegantly demonstrates how the two utilised the language of music, as a metaphor, to forge common ground between science & spirituality.
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14th Feb: Valentine's Day Sonnet to Love
posted by DK Matai on February 13, 2007 at 10:03 AM
Dear friends, Happy Valentine's Day on the 14th wherever you are! For years we dreaded this day and then we thought...
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OLD ISSUES IN NEW CLOTHES
posted by Sohaila Kapur on February 10, 2007 at 07:07 AM
Hello everybody. Am back after a long hiatus. I see that some of the old issues are still hot ones, if anything, hotter. My blog on science and spirituality; that they were two sides of the same coin which got me a huge response ( mostly hate mail) is back on board i see, but wearing a more scientific mantle. Just proves that quintessential questions about the nature of the universe, about the connectivity between science and spirituality will always be a popular topic. Hope to be a regular participant from now.
London - 5th-9th feb @ 8, South Audley Street
posted by Suchitra Krishnamoorthi on February 05, 2007 at 02:15 AM
"Oh Lord, thou art Unborn, Absolute and Formless: Thou art beyond bliss and againBliss itself-the one and the infinite. . Thou art the supreme, without attributes, differentiation and desire. Thou art verily the Supreme Brahman. To thee, Oh Lord do we offer worship"
Ganesh Mantra
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Holistic Relativity: Spiritual Planes & Consciousness
posted by DK Matai on February 01, 2007 at 10:49 AM
In the quest to unify the four forces with the fifth, the Socratic Dialogue on 21st Century Holistics is moving towards Holistic Relativity, which hinges on multiple spiritual planes and consciousness levels. The Great Spiritual Masters refer to multiple planes often:
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Untitled (Does everything need a title?)
posted by mindyourmind.ca on January 24, 2007 at 10:39 AM
submitted by Diana, a member of the mindyourmind.ca crew
Smothered under cakes
Of powdered flowers
Painted sceneries of hypocrisy
Dance in barbed wire cages
Invisible to all within
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John Milton -- On Time... and Triumphing over Death
posted by DK Matai on January 20, 2007 at 09:42 AM
Dear friends, one of the greatest English poets, John Milton was born on 9th December, 1608, in London. He held his office with Oliver Cromwell until the restoration, which led King Charles II to arrest and to execute all of those in collaboration with Cromwell.
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Light Water Time
posted by Saira Mohan on January 17, 2007 at 05:14 AM
For those who would like to be introduced to the world's most gifted photographer, have a browse through the portfolio of David Doubilet
Maulana Rumi: 2007 is his 800th Anniversary!
posted by DK Matai on January 16, 2007 at 12:29 PM
Our friend Sussan Deyhim has reminded us that 2007 is the mystic poet Maulana Rumi's 800th Anniversary. So the post has been revised... The Great Spiritual Masters have often made references to the love of the Perfect Master Maulana Rumi -- Maulana of the Roman Empire -- who was born in Balakh, Afghanistan, in 1207 AD.
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Obsessed
posted by Gotham Chopra on January 15, 2007 at 07:45 PM
Truth be told, I'm much more of a sports guy than celebrity guy. For example, I would have moved heaven and Earth yesterday to watch a football playoff game but I could care less about adjusting around the broadcast of the Golden Globe awards show just down the street from where I live.
Just Being There at a New Dawn
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on January 01, 2007 at 08:42 AM
Eyes open again
stealthily seeping in horizons,
sketching silhouettes of mountains
once seen captured in gouaches.
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Where is Swadesh Deepak?
posted by Rahul Pandita on December 28, 2006 at 11:06 PM
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As though we buried the sun
posted by Rahul Pandita on December 27, 2006 at 06:12 AM
Between the pages and Should I take you to Shaheen
Sir Isaiah Berlin: The Hedgehog and The Fox
posted by DK Matai on December 24, 2006 at 01:07 AM
Sir Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) is often regarded as one of the greatest intellectual conversationalists of the 20th century. He was a philosopher and historian of ideas. In 1953, he published a seminal essay called The Hedgehog and The Fox. He argued for a greater understanding of the essential values of progressive civilisation -- pluralism and liberty. He was afraid of, and intellectually opposed to, absolutisms of any kind and their attendant regressions. Enjoy the read!
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Metamorphosis: Don picked for Berlin Film Festival
posted by DK Matai on December 20, 2006 at 12:08 PM
Is the Bollywood film industry metamophing into a worldclass player? Megastar Shah Rukh Khan may be celebrating after his latest movie "Don" was selected to be screened at the world famous Berlin Film Festival in Europe. How deserved is the honour?
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A Misty Morning
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on December 19, 2006 at 04:59 AM
Amazed, truly amazed at the simultaneous complexity and simplicity of it all. Emerging now of sleep unconsciousness, recovering my identity, my place in time and space, in my web of relationships, at these cross-currents of thoughts, memories, and desires, that whoosh through the labyrinths of mind.
All the conversations, the expectations, the duties, the tendencies, the yearnings gather to laugh in a merry choir of “me” as I look “outside” from this “inside”, and see the substance that nourishes and envelops everything, ever so loyal, ever so subtle.
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Endlessly Connected
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on December 17, 2006 at 09:55 AM
Absolutely together, as infinitesimal particles, we hurled out of the stillness of Being, in search of the paradise of self-consciousness. Bouncing on the boundaries of nothing we expanded space with our cosmic dance as we held hands most intimately in our quantumness. A hunting party we were, amongst numberless others, sent out by Being to explore and arrive at the knowledge of Oneness.
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T S Eliot: The Waste Land
posted by DK Matai on December 07, 2006 at 07:36 AM
Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1948. The Waste Land (1922), is essentially melancholic, and its seeks to express "The Waste Land" of our lives, from which the search for a higher world arises.
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Fireworks of Silence
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on November 29, 2006 at 04:06 PM
I miss the fireworks exploding in computer screen heavens, carrying messages of light and inspiration, with incandescent flight they burn in the atmosphere of my mind. They swirl within, finding the bloodstream that opens in anticipated blooms of premature spring, and sting as poison arrows my heart.
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Thanksgiving Hymn, Emerson Prayer & Sunshine!
posted by DK Matai on November 23, 2006 at 12:55 PM
Our "Sunshine" in Toronto responds: I am sharing with you my favourite hymn of Thanksgiving; a short, beautiful poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson, which also serves as a prayer of Thanksgiving; and finally ... the words to “our song” so we can sing together soon... with love, mit liebe, avec amour, con amore, con amor, pyar sahit...
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Frost, Thanksgiving and I've Promises to Keep...
posted by DK Matai on November 22, 2006 at 03:31 PM
Happy Thanksgiving! We would like to dedicate Robert Frost's poem: to our "Sunshine" who lives in Toronto, Canada, and she was due to fly to Los Angeles, California, but couldn't at the last minute; and to all those who are trying to get to their Thanksgiving meals with loved ones but can't because of circumstances beyond their control... We are thinking of you with love! ...The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep...
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Maaya-The Illusion
posted by Suchitra Krishnamoorthi on November 15, 2006 at 06:07 PM
She lives here now, it's a beautiful place
At the foot of God's altar.
Its silver, its blue, its multihued
and there's no one here to bother her
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Blake: The Lamb & The Tyger (Love & Time)
posted by DK Matai on November 15, 2006 at 11:35 AM
Blake identified God's (Pure Love's) creative process with the work of an artist. And it is art that brings creation to its fulfillment -- by showing the world as it is, by sharpening perception, by giving form to ideas...
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Guptaras: Insanity Saga -- Conspiracy of Calaspia
posted by DK Matai on November 13, 2006 at 10:25 AM
In a recent visit to the Napoleonic Castle of Wolfsberg in Switzerland, we had the pleasure of being introduced, by our friends Prof Prabhu Guptara and his wife Philippa, to their 17-year old twins, Suresh and Jyoti. We were fascinated to discover that the boys have been working together, from the age of 11, on a series of seven novels, collectively called The Insanity Saga.
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Armistice Day: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
posted by DK Matai on November 11, 2006 at 11:11 AM
Today is the anniversary of the end of the first world war, Armistice Day, 11th November at 11:00am. We would like to present, Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est", the best known poem of the First World War, which rather accurately describes the horror of war, and the pity of war.
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Interruption for Joy
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on November 02, 2006 at 12:13 PM
Every word has become a sword
everything is so wound up
like cords left to their own
In a forgotten chest of drawers.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Love's Philosophy
posted by DK Matai on October 30, 2006 at 11:38 AM
The fountains mingle with the river,
And the rivers with the ocean;
The winds of heaven mix forever,
With a sweet emotion;
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Victor Hugo: More Strong than Time
posted by DK Matai on October 23, 2006 at 01:37 PM
Since I have set my lips to your full cup, my sweet,
Since I my pallid face between your hands have laid,
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Your Universal Womb
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on October 22, 2006 at 11:27 AM
Today my rose petals defoliated and fell in a flood of dew
Blushing in nakedness, they silently collapsed to the ground
-still not having found what I seek
-still not seeking to realize what I need
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Henry Longfellow: A Psalm of Life
posted by DK Matai on October 21, 2006 at 11:45 AM
'Life that shall send A challenge to its end,
And when it comes, say, 'Welcome, friend.''
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Alchemy
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on October 21, 2006 at 07:07 AM
Do not remain at ease, on moments of seeming repose, enjoy, but be prepared, these are intermediate landings in spiral stairs that take you to the heights. Churning is the engine that mixes all together and effaces any acquired pose one might have dreamt of. Any assumed belief held so strongly, that one identifies as being it.
Tagore: Geetanjali or "Song Offerings"
posted by DK Matai on October 20, 2006 at 12:40 PM
Mind Without Fear
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
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Max Ehrmann: Desiderata
posted by DK Matai on October 19, 2006 at 12:10 PM
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
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Arsenio and Zappy Party at Sirius Radio
posted by Zappy on October 18, 2006 at 08:58 AM
Celebrating Deepak's new book ""Life After Death: The Burden of Proof"
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Gimme a Break!
posted by Suchitra Krishnamoorthi on October 17, 2006 at 11:04 AM
They pat me on the back
They tell me that I’m strong
I bow my head, blink away my tears
Too afraid to confess the truth of it,
And tell them that they’re wrong
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The Mother
posted by Shekhar Kapur on October 13, 2006 at 08:08 AM
Oscars. Red carpet. Elizabeth. Vanity Fair Party, squeezing through. Frenzied media. Who's this guy in the Maharaja dress ? Better take his picture just in case someone pays for it. Elton John's party. Excuse me, did I step on your Prada shoes ? Oops, sorry, did I spill my drink on your dress as I was trying to sqeeze past ? Where's the bathroom please. Who am I ? What's this attention all about ? How did I get lucky ? Did I get lucky ?
Chess and Nirvana: A travel along the Ganges
posted by Rahul Pandita on October 13, 2006 at 05:21 AM
One October afternoon, in 1994, a young, bespectacled man arrived at a roadside resort on the Delhi-Dehradun highway. He was accompanied by a tourist from Britain. The man carried a copy of Plato, and most of the times he talked about chess and the virtues of arm-wrestling. Read More...
Songs and Poems of Peace, Love and Tranquility
posted by DK Matai on October 11, 2006 at 08:11 AM
You must have songs or poems that are your favourite because they evoke feelings of peace, love and tranquility in your within. Please contribute your favourite ones as separate entries and in return, here is one of mine:
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Silence might wake up
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on October 11, 2006 at 06:36 AM
Shh.... Silence might wake up
and they say, that much silence makes a lot of noise.
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Entelechy Arts: London’s cultural peacemongers
posted by Aladin on October 10, 2006 at 03:59 PM
This remarkable arts company and charity sprang out of everyday encounters almost 20 years ago between people who would not ordinarily come into contact with each other.
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Be at Peace
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on October 10, 2006 at 01:49 PM
I got drunk again, and in this inebriated state I cannot think too well, forgive me if I say something wild, but all these things are growing inside me, like savage forests and impeachable thoughts.
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A piece of peace
posted by Rahul Pandita on October 10, 2006 at 10:25 AM
Nonsense offerings that may get peace to seep inwards.
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Whirlwinds of memories
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on October 06, 2006 at 08:55 AM
Gusts of memories surround me.
Consciousness stretches and spills
through the cracks of mind.
A whirlwind of small things,
found under most insignificant moments,
accumulate like dust in the corners
of an unkempt room.
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LOVE
posted by Saira Mohan on October 03, 2006 at 09:27 PM
4:05am…Whom I have chosen to Love is the most naked confession of my soul.
Not Knowing Why
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on October 03, 2006 at 06:58 PM
Within this space traversed in imagination
history falls like autumn leaves.
The throats of souls open up
in a concert of voices, laughter and lament.
This night of absolute darkness,
sacred chants and moaning forms,
seek each other passionately
amongst the shadows.
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Gardens of Nowhere
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on October 01, 2006 at 06:31 AM
This presence, notwithstanding me,
feels like lovely music surrounding all my being.
Yearnings are now so subtle and cross-cutting
that they inundate this collage of anguish and joy.
Words collapse in their exchange with others
bouncing back and forth, inane.
Nothing seems too have depth of ocean anymore,
everything feels as a distant shore.
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The Missing Man: Part 4
posted by Rahul Pandita on September 27, 2006 at 11:07 AM
There are so many strange things in life. Like the noise that you hear occasionally in your head. Or the fact that the only thing you forget in the pocket of your trousers, most of the times, is movie tickets. Or that very few people use the first urinal in a public toilet. Or that some people sleep so much in a bus that you almost think that they have passed away.
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Quietude
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on September 27, 2006 at 03:18 AM
An inevitable quietude threatens everything today.
Movement rests, all motion is laying down.
Sound has frozen into silence.
A presence of serenity invades all.
Thoughts are perched in mind’s branches.
Tranquil, devoid of energy or desire
they sleep a deep siesta.
The Missing Man: Part 3
posted by Rahul Pandita on September 25, 2006 at 10:08 AM
The city spreads in you. And then you miss your loneliness.
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Wounds are yet superficial
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on September 23, 2006 at 04:51 PM
I am wounded by concepts,
I am drawn to mystify and daydream.
Food is rotting in the drawers of my mind,
and nobody is picking up the mail stuff,
my muscles are losing their tone.
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The Temple
posted by Shekhar Kapur on September 23, 2006 at 09:30 AM
I often sit in the temple across the street from my house in Mumbai. Not to pray, but just to bathe myself in the vibrations of all those that do, all those lucky ones that so easily believe in the divine power of faith ...
The Missing Man: Part 2
posted by Rahul Pandita on September 22, 2006 at 11:53 PM
One man's answer lies in his disappearance; the answer to his quest for belonging entirely to himself.
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Name Aanya's New Sister...
posted by Kanika Sethi on September 22, 2006 at 09:09 PM
Hi everyone, So I've got about 8 weeks to go....before baby #2 arrives. Thought, since the mood on the site seems a bit heavy, I'd lighten things up for a change! Anyone want
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My eternal lover
posted by Shekhar Kapur on September 20, 2006 at 12:18 PM
locked in your embrace
every moment
every breath
together
we walk
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If Sleeplessness was Wealth
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on September 18, 2006 at 04:03 PM
If sleeplessness was wealth,
I would live in a palace alongside the moon.
and from my window I would see the gracious spilling of light
over everything that crawls and flies.
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Ancient Companion
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on September 16, 2006 at 05:59 AM
Under that old moon of stillness, bathed in her light so golden, so many steps have been taken, so many mysteries unfolded. I have walked again pretending to be what you want me to. These bundles
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Everything is Music
posted by Intent on September 12, 2006 at 01:29 PM
Dave Stewart and Deepak Chopra jam again. Hope you enjoy!
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Moon lozenge
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on September 12, 2006 at 05:19 AM
Last night I placed the moon between my eyes, thin veils of grayish gauzy-cloud materials surrounded her so gently. She dissolved gradually into my brain like a sweetmeat on a hungry mouth. My neurons glowed in moonlight soft and processed impulses in a more romantic and reflective way.
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Bon Jour Nostalgie
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on September 11, 2006 at 05:02 AM
I walked softly,-stepping through the chambers of my heart. Blood dynamics and palpitations made my feet tremble, but I did not find whatever I was looking for. I emerged wet and red, bathed in wine. I came out of the confines of my body and
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Rooms within rooms
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on September 10, 2006 at 08:25 AM
It started with rooms looking kind of strange. Walls were wobbly and translucent. I had a sense of not belonging gnawing at the core of my awareness, and it made me wonder why was I aiming to go here and there, and what was the true nature of my pursuits.
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Travel Within
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on September 08, 2006 at 05:38 AM
I bow humbly at the intimacy of body. While I sit here discussing logical frameworks, inside the core of this organism that carries my consciousness, I suddenly become aware of those minute potassium ions crossing hurriedly a cellular membrane or other, while their sodium partners cross to the opposite side, like migrant workers along porous national borders.
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Are you ready for some football?
posted by Gotham Chopra on September 07, 2006 at 11:00 AM
If there is any evidence that I am adopted (as Mallika used to tell me when we were young), it is by virtue of the fact that I am a diehard (American) football fan.
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We Two
posted by Derrick N Ashong on August 31, 2006 at 08:13 PM
I recently offered the lyrics to a song to a friend creating an anthology and it struck me that despite the music I've recorded, I've got tons of stuff that no one has ever heard. Here are the lyrics to a song I love, dedicated to those who have lived to love again. It's called "We Two."
Srinagar, Jammu, Delhi
posted by Rahul Pandita on August 29, 2006 at 08:33 AM
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live: Theodor Adorno
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Is God real, daddy ?
posted by Shekhar Kapur on August 27, 2006 at 05:22 AM
It's late in the night
I hold your little hand in mine
we lie in bed as u stare at the ceiling
what is God, Daddy
is God real ?
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Login to your heart
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on August 25, 2006 at 02:26 PM
It happened like that. Maybe a dream in the first night without Pluto. Maybe the accumulation, somewhere within my brain, of those little things not said or abounded much, but which have so much meaning to all.
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The search
posted by Rahul Pandita on August 25, 2006 at 01:46 AM
Are we treasure-seekers? Or the treasure itself?
In search of a poet
posted by Rahul Pandita on August 22, 2006 at 09:02 AM
The train passes through lush green fields and small towns with walls painted with advertisements of quacks and tantriks, who claim to have an antidote for everything, ranging from bad jobs to failed love. I really do not know why I am on this train, bound for Lucknow.
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Sweet Mother - SMT Style
posted by Derrick N Ashong on August 16, 2006 at 06:52 AM
You guys gave some great feedback to the song from Kevin Webb yesterday. By special request from Mallika, Tara & North I am going to share with you the video to a song of my "own" along w/ an explanation of how global youth culture played into the making of it.
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Let's Love Too!
posted by Derrick N Ashong on August 15, 2006 at 08:20 AM
Allo folks. So riffing off of Mallika's call for us to lighten up, I move that we "loven" up a little too. I just heard this GORGEOUS song by a musician named Kevin Webb in NY who is putting together a soundtrack to a book about loooove.
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The War in The Middle East -- Saturday, Aug 12th on Sirius
posted by Deepak Chopra on August 10, 2006 at 05:23 PM
Dear Friends, I have now done 5 weekly shows on Sirius Radio. We've had some amazing guests, including Grammy award winner, Beth Nielson Chapman singing her latest songs, Dave Stewart, speaking on children as ambassadors for world peace, Margo Anand, speaking on Sex and Spirituality. In each show, I try to highlight a particular subject. So far
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A Paean To The City Of My Life
posted by Rahul Bose on August 08, 2006 at 02:40 PM
Welcome to Bombay. The city of schizophrenia. Where God and anti-god reside. Where the air is free, but the ground is not. Where every opinion has an equal and opposite opinion.
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Soulwriter
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on August 04, 2006 at 07:58 AM
Soulwriter, today, after further conversation, my buildings were filled with flying birds and colors transparently traversing me in all directions, as I walked hurriedly at end of day. I used to be somewhere before, leaning against a wall of certainty. The moment you came, inspiration,
Justice for Priyadarshani
posted by Rahul Pandita on July 25, 2006 at 11:12 AM
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Priyadarshani is gone, but where?
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World Chefs in Egypt - The Living Pyramids
posted by Vikas Khanna on July 23, 2006 at 06:13 PM
July 20th, 2006 - World Chefs hosts the first in its World Wonder series at The Pyramids of Giza in Egypt.
Every moment of envisioning and planning this event was memorable, especially learning Arabic for my speeches.
Our special thanks to Intentblog for all the encouragement and support which helped us to move ahead.
Mahapralaya
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on July 05, 2006 at 05:10 PM
Evening breezes have chilled the fire. It ran away like a child scared of the shadows. And it sunk into depths profound and remote to laughter, where stillness and tiredness reigned.
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Nadirah X
posted by Dave Stewart on July 02, 2006 at 08:38 PM
I HATE THIS
Hi. It's not often when a song stops me in my tracks and makes we want to get a copy and play it to everyone I meet, but when I heard "I hate This" by Nadirah X I flipped out! I met Nadirah X in Jamaica about 10 mins after she had come off stage after winning best artist the Carribean Music Expo. I am now
One is a Lonely Number
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on June 04, 2006 at 05:15 PM
One
has no boundaries or limitations;
one is One.
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Sacred Geometry
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on June 03, 2006 at 04:34 AM
Lines are aspirations of distance and time,
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Anbushed
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on June 02, 2006 at 03:59 PM
All things outside congregated with a deafening tumult:
Faithful Dogs of Prey
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on June 02, 2006 at 09:47 AM
One of these days, the sun will fall upon me
and flash my all.
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The Creature that Gurgles
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on June 01, 2006 at 04:41 PM
These rhythms of life’s doldrums invented by my weary mind
are shared with you, my dear,
in the context of all these anguishing perceptions of imagination within.
What can I do under these circumstances
but to want to see your nakedness in secret,
as you look at me with practical business eyes?
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A Little Love
posted by Rahul Pandita on June 01, 2006 at 12:36 AM
A song of lost youth...
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Under the shadow of Mind
posted by Rahul Pandita on May 25, 2006 at 11:01 PM
Ideas, images, thoughts, freeze-frames, words...
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World Childrens Forum - Again!
posted by Dave Stewart on May 22, 2006 at 07:41 AM
Hi, Instead of getting hung up on who the sponsors might be or how to raise money to create such a forum or will it be hopeless etc.etc. I'm just gonna get on with moving forward and making it a reality.
Everyone made interesting remarks and good points which I will bear in mind. Aurora, North, Kristin
Suzanne , Maria Luisa you all inspire me to get to work, and Yogi you too motivate me!
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Fiction and Consequences
posted by Sudha Koul on May 19, 2006 at 04:16 AM
Assuming that not every sentence in Kaavya Viswanathan's thinly veiled autobiographical book was lifted, plagiarism seems to be the least of the sins committed in the Opal Mehta fiasco. A friend sent me the book because she enjoyed reading it. So did I. When I put the book down I thought that we may not have heard the last of Kaavya Viswanathan.
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MAN CRUSH
posted by Gotham Chopra on May 17, 2006 at 10:12 PM
I am totally straight. Not that there is anything wrong with not being straight but really I totally am. I have a real life woman wife to prove it too. She'll back me up (bad word choice but you know what I mean). I did carry a murse once (a man purse) but that was just sort of an experiment and I wasn't into it. And I swear that's the only "experiment" I've ever really had. Still I have a confession: I have a man crush.
Ref:The Meeting
posted by Pallavi Guptaa on May 16, 2006 at 02:22 AM
Ref: The Meeting
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When Children Meet
posted by Dave Stewart on May 15, 2006 at 03:09 PM
Click here to hear Dave and Deepak's song, When Children Meet.
I would love to create THE WORLD CHILDRENS FORUM like THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM.
A summit meeting once a year of children from every country. Speakers who range from 7yrs old to 18 yrs old. I want
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The Meeting-3
posted by Pallavi Guptaa on May 11, 2006 at 09:45 AM
The Meeting-3
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The Da Vinci Code
posted by Mallika Chopra on May 10, 2006 at 10:02 PM
Ok, who has read the Da Vinci Code
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The Meeting-2
posted by Pallavi Guptaa on May 08, 2006 at 11:33 AM
The Meeting-2
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PDA
posted by Gotham Chopra on May 07, 2006 at 08:52 PM
Sitting in the Long Beach airport waiting for my red-eye flight to NYC. Always conflicted about red-eyes. Like 'em because I feel like I am saving time. Hate 'em because I know I will feel like absolute @#$% at some point tomorrow. Anyway, there is a couple sitting across from me that is all over each other.
Karma Confusions and Candid Confessions...
posted by Suchitra Krishnamoorthi on May 06, 2006 at 11:16 AM
i recently met up for coffee with a friend
she lives near by, just round the bend
a good friend she was, who would always try
the one person i knew that would seldom lie
but now as i gazed into her sad brown eyes
i mustered up the courage and asked her why...
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The Meeting-1
posted by Pallavi Guptaa on April 28, 2006 at 09:25 AM
The Meeting-1
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The Missing Man
posted by Rahul Pandita on April 25, 2006 at 11:23 PM
A week after his disappearance, Srikant’s family received an envelope. His father Bhagirath, responding to a knock on the door, collected it from a postman, whose nose was like an eagle’s beak.
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The Making of a Film
posted by Rahul Pandita on April 24, 2006 at 05:15 AM
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The Meeting
posted by Pallavi Guptaa on April 22, 2006 at 10:10 PM
The Meeting
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Humorous internet ads from Chandra for Attorney General campaign
posted by Subodh Chandra on April 15, 2006 at 08:53 PM
Please enjoy these humorous internet ads from my campaign for Ohio attorney general.
The first is a Simpsons spoof that compares me to Apu and my primary opponent to Homer.
The second is a puppet show about Ohio's current corruption scandals that I performed for my triplets and other children (and adults) at a fundraiser.
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Umm...what can I say?
posted by Gotham Chopra on March 30, 2006 at 08:00 AM
It's really quite sad when you consider yourself a story-teller and you realize you have nothing to say. I am pretty tired of ragging on Bush and bitching about the war. I need to find a new act - that one is worn out and their circus ain't leaving town again anytime soon. There I go again - sorry it's instinctive.
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The Design of Madness
posted by Rahul Pandita on March 22, 2006 at 07:01 AM
Madmen don't care about blurbs.
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And about Writing
posted by Pallavi Guptaa on March 21, 2006 at 10:11 PM
And about Writing
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Sleep
posted by Pallavi Guptaa on March 18, 2006 at 07:07 AM
Sleep
Shanaya 6 (and final)
posted by Pallavi Guptaa on March 12, 2006 at 11:31 AM
Shanaya 6
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A Story in Continuum: Part 6
posted by Rahul Pandita on March 06, 2006 at 03:39 AM
Rain, red umbrella, Asha Bhosle, fried onions. And sesame seeds.
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Shanaya-5
posted by Pallavi Guptaa on March 04, 2006 at 09:51 AM
Shanaya-5
Shanaya-4
posted by Pallavi Guptaa on March 02, 2006 at 01:30 PM
Shanaya-4
The Spice Story of India
posted by Vikas Khanna on February 26, 2006 at 11:49 AM
Here is the recipe for Punjabi Kadhi (Vegetable dumplings in a savory yogurt curry). I have also seen some chefs spell it "Punjabi Kudhi", meaning the girl from Punjab. I like it that when we are writing Hindi in English, we are creating a whole new language of possibilities.
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The Politics of Snobbery
posted by Sohaila Kapur on February 25, 2006 at 05:02 AM
Why is snobbery such a vital part of human life? Like god, it's omnipresent.
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Forward with Organisational Art!
posted by Aladin on February 24, 2006 at 12:52 PM
The merging and swapping of roles are opportunities in waiting, inherent in any context where apparently unlike elements, processes and parties may be even temporarily cohabiting. Organisational Art (OA) can play a powerful role in actualising all this through its traffic of ideas and ownerships. aladin
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Storyteller
posted by Shekhar Kapur on February 23, 2006 at 02:33 PM
In my previous life I was a story teller.
Dragging myself from village to village,
where people would throw me some coins
to weave fantasy around their mundane lives
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Shanaya- 3
posted by Pallavi Guptaa on February 21, 2006 at 11:14 PM
Shanaya-3
What It Means to be an American
posted by Taz Ahmed on February 20, 2006 at 09:42 PM
I was a four month old fetus when I first entered this nation in the womb of my mother...
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Life is a Diode
posted by Rahul Pandita on February 20, 2006 at 07:20 AM
The students of Regional Engineering College, Warangal will always remember that statement. One sentence, spoken by Ramakant Pandey, while accepting the Gold Medal for topping in the first year of the Engineering course. Electronics stream. After he had been awarded the medal, Ramakant stood in front of the mike. He did not speak for few seconds and then uttered that historical line: Life is a Diode.
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Shanaya- 2
posted by Pallavi Guptaa on February 18, 2006 at 07:58 AM
Shanaya-2
Shanaya- 1
posted by Pallavi Guptaa on February 16, 2006 at 05:51 AM
Shanaya-1
Shanaya
posted by Pallavi Guptaa on February 15, 2006 at 04:28 AM
Shanaya
The Life of Pandey Ji
posted by Rahul Pandita on February 13, 2006 at 11:06 AM
Lines written on the bus stop. With Grease. Eveything has been left incomplete Pandey Ji. Aeroplanes over Ber Sarai. A Gold medal and unrequited love.
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A Story in Continuum: Part 5
posted by Rahul Pandita on February 12, 2006 at 06:40 AM
Tea, tea leaves, future. Smile, which had meaning. Like Lotus Sutras.
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A Story in Continuum: Part 4
posted by Rahul Pandita on February 08, 2006 at 01:46 AM
He passed Meerut. And Meerut passed him. The Present passed easily. But the Past stayed with him somehow. Like a trail of dust left behind by a speeding car. Every particle of dust was clear. Every sound, every sight, every smell, every touch of his past was alive.
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New York Chefs - Update
posted by Vikas Khanna on February 05, 2006 at 09:50 PM
Recently very interesting topics have been given to me to lecture on,which have nothing to do with recipes. Some universites have asked me to talk to their graduating students about the horizons of food.
Now what is that?
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Mrs Dog
posted by Pallavi Guptaa on February 04, 2006 at 10:36 AM
Mrs Dog
Yo
posted by Gotham Chopra on January 31, 2006 at 09:30 PM
Yo, been trolling around the internet looking for something to blog on and coming up empty. Mallika already blogged on the State of the Union which I missed. I'll read the transcript so I can lob wise cracks at Dubya and all the silly, irrelevent rah rah stuff he predictably said. In the meantime, here's more stuff.
IDENTITY
posted by Suchitra Krishnamoorthi on January 29, 2006 at 09:53 PM
your morality is
the debris of your sin
dont veil me for that
dont deny i exist
A Story in Continuum: Part 3
posted by Rahul Pandita on January 22, 2006 at 11:43 AM
Some memories are better left to be forgotten. But some churn inside the lining of your heart so much that you just write them down. Hoping that they would remain as discreet as sacred verses in a talisman. Those memories travel in a Mobius strip. One after the other
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33, Jorbagh
posted by Rahul Pandita on January 19, 2006 at 10:52 AM
A sequence that broke in Rawalpindi. Shreds fell in Delhi. A dream witnessed on Television. And realised through a Motorcycle.
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A Story in Continuum: Part 2
posted by Rahul Pandita on January 18, 2006 at 09:25 AM
His car had just turned into Meerut City. Nina would be probably asleep. May be a mile away. Or at the most two. His mind wandered. He remembered muffins.
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A Story in Continuum
posted by Rahul Pandita on January 15, 2006 at 10:25 AM
When he heard the rustle of a snake on the silk, he knew the time had come. Time to tell the story. A story in continuum...
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Writer's Block
posted by Rahul Pandita on January 13, 2006 at 11:46 PM
Control A. Control X. Backspace. Delete. Cursor staring back, with a curious look on his face. Like: hmmm... let us see what happens next.
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Harmonica
posted by Gotham Chopra on January 13, 2006 at 08:02 AM
The following is a creative writing piece that one of our commenters, Rakesh Mawa, sent us and that I wanted to share with everyone. I really like it!
Harmonica
Someone said that a manual of happiness must start with a resolution of death as its first chapter.
Virgin Comics
posted by Gotham Chopra on January 05, 2006 at 07:53 PM
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Dedicated to Lucy
posted by Rahul Pandita on January 05, 2006 at 10:10 AM
Open arms; the banks of river Yamuna. A deity and me. Or is it only me? Or is it only her? Lucy.
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Recieved this from a friend ..
posted by Shekhar Kapur on January 05, 2006 at 08:14 AM
With no mind,
flowers lure the butterfly;
With no mind,
the butterfly visits the blossoms.
Yet when flowers bloom, the butterfly comes;
When the butterfly comes, the flowers bloom.
Ryokan
This year,
posted by Shekhar Kapur on January 02, 2006 at 03:55 PM
my resolve is humility, not in a 'look how humble I am' way, but truly in a way where i can seperate action from result. shekhar
Paper Boats in Kitchen Sink
posted by Rahul Pandita on December 28, 2005 at 02:52 AM
Something moves. He leaves. A stirrer breaks in memories. Three worlds, one man. And then he turns on the tap of his kitchen sink...
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In the future ..
posted by Shekhar Kapur on December 26, 2005 at 09:24 AM
The Economic Times asked me to crystal gaze into the next 50 years of entertainment. I spoke a lot about the virtual world that will encompass us. About the battle between our need for real social contact and the loss of it to 'virtual contact'. The 'fight or flee' syndrome, and how it will evolve in the virtual world. But I would like to know what you guys think first. Shekhar
Thirty Droplets of Existence
posted by Rahul Pandita on December 23, 2005 at 07:33 AM
Random thoughts, unsure of themselves. Strange, open and shy. Swinging between desire and despair. Just for the heck of it.
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Thanks
posted by Gotham Chopra on December 22, 2005 at 02:37 AM
It's 230 in the morning here in LA where I live. Can't sleep. This has been a re-occurring problem for sometime for a variety of reasons. I usually manage through the night by reading, meditating, combing through box scores of my favorite teams, or anthropologically styly watching late-night television. Really I'll do anything to try and not think about what it is that is keeping me up.
An Old Love Song
posted by Rahul Pandita on December 17, 2005 at 10:17 AM
After six years, he came back. For a day. To visit an old, empty cottage. To taste the strawberry lip gloss. Images of a plane hijack. Tunes of Latino. Smell of ear wax. And Nanda Devi. And a promise. Of coming back. Permanently.
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Jammu Roughcut
posted by Rahul Pandita on December 15, 2005 at 07:31 AM
I walked on the Palace road. This time no feeling in my heart. Raju tea stall is closed. Probably because of Sunday. On the first floor of this shop, fourteen years ago, I would drink tea, smoke a cigarette or two and listen to the songs of Kishore Kumar. And then write a 40-page letter for Vallentina.
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Imagine if...
posted by Mallika Chopra on December 10, 2005 at 08:56 AM
Yesterday at the alliance, there was a presentation by some amazing non-profits and ngo's on their work. Each began with the sentence, Imagine If ... No child went to sleep hungry, there was peace on earth, Mother Earth was striving and alive.
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Mommy Reality Check
posted by Mallika Chopra on December 08, 2005 at 05:35 PM
on saving the world from Puerto Rico!
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Half Tomato and Boiled Sparrow Eggs: Part 2
posted by Rahul Pandita on December 06, 2005 at 01:00 AM
This is the second and concluding part of my earlier post. Interested readers are requested to read my previous post with the same name.
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Half Tomato and Boiled Sparrow Eggs
posted by Rahul Pandita on December 05, 2005 at 05:23 AM
They met in a train. He boarded it just a minute before its departure. Usual traffic snarls outside the New Delhi railway station. Had it not been for the coolie, who sliced through the crowd, carrying his suitcase on his head, he would have never caught the train.
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A House for Mr Biswas
posted by Rahul Pandita on December 02, 2005 at 11:16 PM
The front wall painted red. Pebbles of various shapes and sizes put in a ceramic basket. A sofa set in one corner.
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Yimberzal: the story so Far
posted by Rahul Pandita on December 01, 2005 at 10:12 PM
The Shergarhi Palace in Srinagar was lit more than usual that particular evening. The calm waters of the Jhelum River mirrored the royal lights as if it was copulating with a galaxy of stars.
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Reinventing Din-I-Illahi
posted by Rahul Pandita on November 30, 2005 at 08:19 PM
This senseless piece is inspired by questions on the intent of the intentblog.
First a word about myself. I am a Dervish -- a Sufi on top of it. I wear Nike shoes and imaginary steel bangles in my both wrists. I also hold a pair of tongs in my hand, or so I imagine. As I create a rhythm by striking the tongs with bangles, I sing songs of love.
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Three cigarette stubs and a Cornfield
posted by Rahul Pandita on November 30, 2005 at 09:17 AM
He filled his pipe again. Opening up the first pouch, he took out a considerable amount of tobacco and put it in the mouth of the pipe. Then he opened up another pouch and took out another variety of tobacco, a little less than what he had taken previously.
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Virtual Picket Fence
posted by Sudha Koul on November 28, 2005 at 04:29 AM
So, whatever happened to the manifesto for Intentblog?
I must say I was quite pleasantly impressed and surprised to find that Deepak Chopra, in a very hands on way, responded not once but twice, to my discomfiture with the earlier mission statement.
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Male or Female ?
posted by Shekhar Kapur on November 24, 2005 at 09:00 AM
I am both. Male and female. Without my female self I am neither creative nor spiritual. Without my male self I am neither enterprising, nor active. I am not both man and woman. I am a man. But finally,I am now both male and female..
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A Case of (Thanksgiving) Pig Beef Curry?
posted by Sayantani Dasgupta on November 23, 2005 at 10:33 AM
These Amreekan holidays will bring the most amazing things. This morning, while my son was designing a glitter and construction paper turkey masterpiece (as opposed to the more traditional hand-tracing turkey art) at our suburban public library's story hour, I came across a case of pig beef curry. Not just a case, but a vat of the stuff. Perhaps I should elaborate.
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Happy TG
posted by Gotham Chopra on November 22, 2005 at 08:41 PM
Growing up just outside of Boston, Thanksgiving always felt like a special sort of remembrance for the people in our community. In school we did re-enactments of pilgrims sailing in on their ships, Indians throwing ritualistic feathers over them and everyone eventually settling into a good old turkey dinner while watching the Cowboys or Lions game.
Stuck in Circularity
posted by Shekhar Kapur on November 20, 2005 at 09:09 PM
I woke up this morning thinking that the mind has the power to change the way I think. Anyone else see the absolute contradiction in that thought ?
Protecting Cutural Diversity
posted by Shekhar Kapur on November 20, 2005 at 01:24 AM
I urge you to read the news item you see on the right "WSIS: Internet can create,not crush culture". For me a nation's soveriegn right to protect it's cultural diversity would be common sense. Not so for the US, who believes it contradicts the WTO agreement. For those that missed the news item, read on.
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2000 comments a minute ?
posted by Shekhar Kapur on November 18, 2005 at 09:28 PM
Yogi Selliah asks a very valid question.
"just imagine that your posts get 2000 comments every minute. What will u do ?? Would you read them all ??? and respond ?? I guess in a years time the blog will reach that level". True enough Yogi..
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The vulnerability of blogging
posted by Shekhar Kapur on November 14, 2005 at 02:14 PM
How do I write everytime with a surge in my heart and a teardrop threatening to emerge ?
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Do Morality and Spirituality come as a package ?
posted by Shekhar Kapur on November 01, 2005 at 08:52 PM
In an amoral universe (is it ?) where does morality stand, and whose morality is it anyway ? Allow me to share a story..
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A Mother's Response to Violence
posted by Sayantani Dasgupta on October 28, 2005 at 08:24 PM
There have been some interesting posts on women and justice recently - and I was inspired to post this poem. I wrote this during the summer after hearing radio segments about the London subway bombing.
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So who cares about them anyway ?
posted by Shekhar Kapur on October 25, 2005 at 12:49 AM
Sometime ago I posted a picture of these families on the Blog. Yesterday I landed back in Mumbai and realized they had dissapeared overnight. Herded out of the city like cattle.
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I am Learning Disabled..
posted by Shekhar Kapur on October 21, 2005 at 10:28 AM
Yesterday I spent the day doing a workshop with kids with learning disabilities. I came away having learnt the disabilities I have lived with, that I was never aware of ..
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Not Sure How to Title This
posted by Gotham Chopra on October 20, 2005 at 08:55 PM
I'm not going to lie to you, I just got back from dinner where I had two celebratory Sapporos!
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India: Colonized and Colonizer
posted by Parag Khanna on October 18, 2005 at 09:14 PM
It's always said that India is an open society able to absorb foreign cultures, traditions and practices into its own context, much as its own diaspora goes around the world and assimilates everywhere from London to Singapore to Silicon Valley.
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It's happening on the streets !
posted by Shekhar Kapur on October 17, 2005 at 12:14 PM
It's Navratri ! (see Anjali Adukla's blog) All the young people in their best clothes in their thousands dancing on the streets and having sex ..
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Passion
posted by Shekhar Kapur on October 02, 2005 at 02:41 PM
in the instant it began
it was over,
but then
in the end
it had just begun.
shekhar
SOLD !!!
posted by on September 24, 2005 at 07:42 AM
This week has been a point of inflection for the Indian modern and contemporary art market. The auctions at Sothebys and Christies in New York fetched record prices for many works by Indian artists. The tiara of the sale was Mahisasura, a 1997 painting by Tyeb Mehta that fetched $1.6 million! Record (public sale) prices were set for many Indian artists including for Ram Kumar, Husain, Gaitonde, Padamsee, Arpita Singh…
What is a South Asian American?
posted by Taz Ahmed on September 22, 2005 at 11:23 PM
Recently, at an organization’s retreat, our Board was posed this question. What is a South Asian American? What we had planned on being a half an hour discussion, turned into a 2 day passionate debate as the term was deciphered and disintegrated.
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And then they were tied...
posted by Gotham Chopra on September 19, 2005 at 09:47 PM
Over the next two weeks (and hopefully beyond), my schedule, my mood, my faith, my consumption of the world will be posessed by forces beyond my control.
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The Long Night
posted by Nandita Das on September 15, 2005 at 02:00 AM
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The F Bomb
posted by Gotham Chopra on August 29, 2005 at 08:35 PM
I'm not going to lie to you, I'm a big fan of the F bomb.
The Fabric of Life
posted by on August 24, 2005 at 12:09 PM
As I weave my fabric of relationships
I lose so many threads
The pattern seems so clear today
Only to be lost in the mists of time
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If I were Rain...
posted by Mallika Chopra on August 24, 2005 at 01:43 AM
"If I were rain,
I would go to those who have no water.
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Cricket Goes American
posted by Gotham Chopra on August 20, 2005 at 02:33 AM
Courtesy of my favorite website in the world and in recognition of Rahul Bose's recent ode to cricket on this blog:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=cricket
Before you fell in love ...
posted by Shekhar Kapur on August 19, 2005 at 02:53 AM
where did love exist
before you tuned in ?
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And Suddenly, Unexpectedly ...
posted by Shekhar Kapur on August 17, 2005 at 03:21 PM
I seek
that,
which was not
supposed to be
I seek
that,
which had not
occurred to me
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As a result of motherhood...
posted by Kanika Sethi on August 11, 2005 at 04:22 PM
My brain has turned to mush,
To gush,
The consistency of baby food,
Smushed into my hair,
Tossed onto the floor,
Flung onto the wall.
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Prisoner of Words
posted by Deepak Chopra on August 08, 2005 at 11:56 PM
I was inspired by Shekhar. I decided to share my poem:
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Aliens are already here
posted by Shekhar Kapur on August 07, 2005 at 05:45 PM
I have often wondered at the arrogance of the human race. When we look for forms of life other than those known to us, we refuse to extend our imagination beyond anything that lies within our own sense of the individual.
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I am
posted by Shekhar Kapur on August 05, 2005 at 02:46 PM
the moment
at the end
of each exhaled breath
before the next
The Word
posted by Shekhar Kapur on July 29, 2005 at 06:10 AM
Wisdom
being crushed
by the weight of
knowledge
Simple words
trapped
under the debris
of meaning
Loss, Art, ......
posted by on July 22, 2005 at 07:43 PM
In the past few days there has been some talk about loss and death. Serendipitously the current exhibition at our gallery of photoworks by Allan deSouza titled The Lost Pictures was initiated by the loss of his mother...
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The End of a Story
posted by Gotham Chopra on July 20, 2005 at 06:46 AM
Long time, no blog! The last two days have been very hectic. Been dashing here and there non-stop (cumulatively 3 rountrips between SD and LA in two days!) All good stuff, albeit a bit stressful trying to keep head above water. Alas, have felt a pall looming over mood and unsure what it is until...
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Deepak Talwar's First Post
posted by on July 19, 2005 at 07:17 PM
Intent. Ahhh !?
That frequently elusive, commonly masqueraded, rarely focused, carefully
guarded and often misunderstood Thing…
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Connecting
posted by Nandita Das on July 18, 2005 at 04:23 PM
I am neither a writer nor a net buff/surfer…so what am I doing on a blog! I guess the need to share, to be reassured, to connect with like minded people and to be able to use yet another medium of communication is exciting.
Rahul Bose's First Post
posted by Rahul Bose on July 16, 2005 at 01:20 AM
dear mallika and gotham,
as a person who likes to think of himself as almost totally computer illiterate (after five years, my lap top still has only my film scripts and my articles on it. i have never used it for anything else. my digital genius stretches to "on" and "off"), starting a blog on intentblog is like crossing the rubicon. however, since you have assured me it is simpler than i think, i will hold my breath and make the leap.
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Check it out Mom - I'm blogging with DEEPAK CHOPRA!
posted by Sandeep Sood on July 15, 2005 at 06:44 PM
Mom, can you believe this $&%*? I'm on a blog with Deepak Chopra! And you said starting a comic strip would just make me a joker without a real job.
Yeah, so I still don't have a real job, but you can't call me a joker anymore, because, then Deepak Chopra would be a joker too - since, we're like blogging together now.
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weighty thoughts
posted by Shekhar Kapur on July 14, 2005 at 03:10 PM
i too have a weight problem
get up in the morning
and feel the burden of it
so heavy
that you struggle with your first steps
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I live here?
posted by Shekhar Kapur on July 12, 2005 at 06:13 AM
I live here ?
So I ask my friends
where does your home end ?
how do you define your space
in which you live
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Shakti Goes West
posted by Gotham Chopra on July 09, 2005 at 05:17 AM
I'm jealous. My dad has got over 20 comments to his latest post....from La Guardia airport! Does everything this man write become a bestseller?!! Kidding....
After a few days of harsh news, here's a lighter story of a different tone. Enjoy:
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Till the Next...
posted by Shekhar Kapur on July 09, 2005 at 04:21 AM
you pay your college fees
you fall in love
you plan the babies
and save for the future
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