“What you seek is seeking you.” – Rumi An eagle faces the same dilemma as other birds during the rains. To fly or not to fly. It picks the former and flies above the clouds. Every day, every individual encounters their own version of rains and the following dilemma: to fly or not to fly. TheirContinue reading “Scrabbles with Rumi”
Tag Archives: Ideas
The sciency science of Indian food
The lure of Indian food and its lip-smacking diversity is well-known. If you ask any Indian living abroad, it’s perfectly possible that he/she confesses missing the food more than their own family! Can you guess the reason, after all?
To the land of budding book lovers
A few weeks back, I received a Whatsapp text. My Muscovite friend Katya, of whom I talk all the time in my Prochnost updates, was up to something awesome again. She had switched jobs recently and the ‘Kniga Worm‘ that she is (no literally!), she decided to get the kids in her new school excitedContinue reading “To the land of budding book lovers”
The Damsel in Distress
Flipping through the pages of yet another piece of fiction, I had an epiphany. There was something wrong. The book was well-paced. Nice plot. Then what was it? After a few moments of silence, I got the answer.
Hiraeth
Hiraeth is a Welsh word that refers to the longing for a home that no longer exists.
The Politics of the ‘top’ of the World
Europe in the centre and the world pretty much around it. A mere coincidence or a remnant of the world’s colonial past?
Turtles all the way down
I visited a lovely nearby cafe this Sunday which serves amazing waffles alongside a selection of books you can read while enjoying your food. As I picked up ‘A Brief History of Time’ by Stephen Hawking, I was greeted by one of the best introductory pages ever written for a book (at least for me).
Faulty translations & Martian tales
Did you know that the fans of science fiction owe the greatest thanks to an incorrectly translated Italian word around the 1800s?
A succinct history of advertising
If you were an adult living in the U.S. in the 1850s, you wouldn’t find anything wrong with your times. However, if you were to time-travel there from today, the newspapers of that time are going to be a surprise. Why?
एक तितली की उड़ान
Taking a stand for your passions is not easy. Despite that, there are people who do not bow down in front of what life brought their way and instead pursue their passions relentlessly. This poem is dedicated to all such people 🙂
