The writer takes a walk through the lush green rooftop garden of Lionel Pereira in Thane, Maharashtra Winner of two prestigious prizes in January 2020 for his exotic rooftop garden in Thane, Maharashtra, Lionel Pereira is literally on Cloud 9....
Living consciously with Zen in your life is very much about living moment-to-moment in awareness and simply being true to your own nature. This way of Zen enriches your life and helps you discover your full potential: and as you...
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” – Plato India has an ancient and rich musical heritage, which we can build on and share as we collaborate with...
This is an extract from Second Go, the author’s personal memoir about her liver transplant surgery. She says: “Selling words is how I make a living. But Second Go was a catharsis of bottled-up deep-buried emotions and a nerve-rattling experience...
Can there be close bonding, without any physical attraction between a man and a woman? “I have a close friend of the opposite sex—someone I have known for ten years, since I was sixteen years old. We have a very...
Covid captivity has brought some definite advantages, like no commute, thus extra time for life. You can wear your comfy trousers and slippers. The disadvantage for some work addicts, though, is that work never goes away. Their work hours stretch,...
They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they’ve heard of unemployment and they’ve heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball – Frederic Ogden Nash, American writer and poet...
Sneha Sharma discovered that car racing was her first love when she was 16 years old. But it then seemed so unreal and dream-like. Her parents, too, opposed her from taking up car racing, pleading that it was a dangerous...
Of late, we are all becoming obsessed with organic foods. While it is relatively easy to procure dry organic rations, getting organic fresh foods and vegetables remains a challenge. One way of overcoming this is to grow your own vegetables....
There is a well-known saying attributed to Jesus Christ: “Love your enemy.” (Matthew) This saying holds highest importance for fostering love. Love includes compassion, as both love and compassion are synonymous with each other. ‘Love your enemy’ means love everyone...
The Baba who spent 10 years in cleaning a river, now cleans railway stations, lays roads and doesn’t hesitate to flatten mounds to create smoother passages for his fellow villagers. Imagine bringing back a river to life, once again. That’s...
“The COVID crisis has made mankind acutely aware of the value of a single breath. Blessed if that breath is a lungful of clean air, or then doomed to a horrific end if the breath is contaminated with the coronavirus,”...
Fasting is a miracle cure and many chronic conditions are improved if you take up fasting. Allergies, arthritis, various digestive and skin disorders, even heart disease and asthma are some of the conditions that will improve by fasting. This happens...
Through a real life incident, Amrit Raj, a young yoga guru, based in Rishikesh, tells us how you can apply yoga teachings to real, practical life and master your mind to conquer fear. With a bit of practice, yoga comes...
In the seventies when I was growing up, we were all Greta Thunbergs, environmental warriors. Except that we did not know it. The way of life, adopted by our family of nine with my dad being the sole bread earner,...
“Covid-19 eventually will peak and then dissipate. By God’s grace that will happen sooner rather than later. I am neither an epidemiologist nor clairvoyant, but I do know that eventually we will be, mostly, Covid free. While the coronavirus and...
Payal Jangid, a teenager from a village, Hinsla, in Rajasthan has made curbing of child marriages and abolition of child labour her twin missions in life. “Many resign themselves, to the way things are, far too easily. Everyone must challenge...
During this lockdown period, I found a few of the WhatsApp groups that I engaged with regularly take up gardening, especially terrace gardening. Coincidentally, just a few days before the lockdown was announced in the third week of March, I...
