A Journey up north!

Going up north to Badrinath, Kedarnath etc. So blogging will come to a halt till mid may!

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Call for Action

Kent Blumberg has an outstanding post that is a call for action:

April 2006. I was 51. I had no job. I had no team to sustain me. Having lost three jobs in four years, I felt like a pariah. I was frightened no one would hire this fat, middle-aged ex-CEO, scared I would not be [...]

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The demise of Bangalore….

Nothing will wake us up. The DNA of “chalta hai” and “adjust madi” attitude that has been so ingrained in us, that we do not see what is happening all around us.  A thousand and eight hundred trees, some more than decade old are on the chopping block and not a murmur from the public! [...]

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Gift an Education

I wrote about Asha and SVVN school a few months back, continuing the thread, here is a request for funds for the school. Be generous and give the gift of education to a child.
We have been time and again seeking your kind help in raising resources for running our institution. You are with us for [...]

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Purusha and Prakriti

Guruji spoke a bit about Prakriti and Purusha in his talk in Bali the other day. Extracted from Art of Living’s Wisdom blog:

 
Our consciousness has three qualities, the whole universe has got five qualities.
1. Asti: Existance
2. Bhati: There is consciousness, it feels
3. Preeti: love
4. Nama: Name
5. Rupa: form

For every name, there is a form. In the material world, there is [...]

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Make an informed choice

How difficult is it to put everything related to the Indian Parlimentary Elections together so that as a voter I can look up the schedule, get details about my constituency, get low down on those who are contesting, their past performance, their assets, declarations and more importantly their criminal records and then the usual – [...]

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