Faith …
April 25, 2009…. 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…
Category: Religion
On Sadhus and Renunciation
November 13, 2008This 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…
Thoughts on Good & Evil
October 30, 2008Spent 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…
Media as Filter
September 18, 2008This 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…
Links….
July 14, 2008Stuff 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…
Oxymoronic Thoughts….
March 30, 2008This from the RSS – [tag]The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh[/tag] 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 [tag]Ganga[/tag] is a holy river and [tag]Ramayan[/tag] and…
Spring is Here
February 11, 2008Today is [tag]Basant Panchami[/tag] – the day traditionally marked as the first day of spring. It is that period of time when the world is so very beautiful, that love blooms….. The [tag]Siva Mahapuran[/tag] describes the first day of spring as the…
Scoring an Own Goal
September 19, 2006With defenders like this, Islam does not need any enemies! The Mujahedeen Shura Council, an umbrella organisation of Sunni Arab extremist groups that includes al-Qaida in Iraq, issued a statement on a web forum saying the pontiff and the west were “doomed”….
People in Glass Houses……
September 17, 2006I have been following Pope Benedict utterances on Islam in various media. His seeming endorsement of the view that Islam spread through the sword, had some of us across the world choking with anger, many of us choking with the sheer embarrassment…