Wednesday, January 22, 2025
post-A Garden for a RoofA Garden for a Roof

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....

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post-Living With Zen ValuesLiving With Zen Values

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...

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post-Music is the Soul of LifeMusic is the Soul of Life

“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...

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post-STORY OF A CANCER SURVIVOR: The Day I Felt One With the UniverseSTORY OF A CANCER SURVIVOR: The Day I Felt One With the Universe

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...

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post-Platonic Love is Alive and KickingPlatonic Love is Alive and Kicking

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...

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post-Recharge Your BatteriesRecharge Your Batteries

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,...

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post-The Maze of PhilanthropyThe Maze of Philanthropy

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...

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post-Living her Dream of Car RacingLiving her Dream of Car Racing

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...

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post-Go OrganicGo Organic

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....

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