Posts under ‘Religion’

The Mylapore (Mayil – peacock; ooru – city) is possibly, my favourite temple. When I am in Chennai i visit Mylapore everyday, sometimes twice a day – much to my family’s amusement. When in Mumbai, visiting temples is not a part of my daily or even weekly routine. I manage a little roadside temple every [...]

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The first thing that strikes you – when you set eyes on Borobudur is – ‘gosh that is large’. Rally – really gigantic. Frankly, it looks more like a giant spaceship parked on plain ground than a place of Buddhist worship.

The second thought that strikes you is that who the how the f*** did [...]

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From today, some reproduction of interesting speeches and writings. It is not about a writer’s block – i keep battling those – but more because these are readings / writings that inspired me at a certain point in life – and they still resonate.
My mother – a political scientist who taught Gandhism, introduced me to [...]

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Shiva . Mahadeva. Shankara. The greatest of all Gods. The God who is beyond Space and Time. The God other Gods worship and venerate. Those who dont’ understand call him the Destroyer. But, he isn’t. He ends the Universe at the end of time so that life can start again. While he may not be [...]

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…. i realised when i was looking through my Flickr Stream, that i have more than a fair share of photographs of places of worship, of emblems of faith. Here are some of my favorites :

The Brahma temple at Pushkar is a rarity – legend claims that it is the only Brahma temple in Hindudom [...]

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This morning a bunch of Priests visited our house. Two of them seemed to be grihasta’s (householders), and one seemed to be a Sanyasi – he was wearing the saffron of renunciation. They said the shloka’s, blessed the family and left. They didn’t ask for dakshina, but we gave. This is a yearly routine.
Saffron [...]

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Spent a peaceful and quiet Diwali in Lonavala, catching up with reading, approach notes, the world and myself.
One of the themes that fascinates me, is the entire battle between Good and Evil, especially as it is represented in various mythologies. For the last year or more, i have been revisiting some of the ancient [...]

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This morning I was in class teaching Media Studies. We were looking at different aspects of media — especially the ‘filtering aspect’. Dennis McQuail – media theorist – defines this as
…selecting out parts of experience for special attention and closing off other aspects of experience, whether deliberately and systematically or not…
And, then i got [...]

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Stuff that made me – in no particular order – think, chortle, smirk, snigger , slurp, nod my head wisely, with sorrow, and in a wtf mode. I shan’t identify which is what …coz it will be fun a year later to figure:
a) The Gender Divide exists in the work place in the US – [...]

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This from the RSS – The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh  not Really Simple Syndication
According to RSS, everybody has a right to pray for his deity in his style. But every Indian should accept that Ganga is a holy river and Ramayan and Mahabharata are the holy books of India.

Reminds me of the time (a lifetime [...]

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