"life lies in the eye of the beholder" any takers for a discussion on that ?
Children being bred for sex
Like pigs bred for slaughter, minor girls in Mumbai brothels are being bred for prostitution by being injected with growth hormones and fed testosterone pills in the guise of vitamin pills. So that they develop larger breasts and hips early. Customers apparently like under age girls with slightly mature bodies. Not only that, in the [...]
Paani : Will even these buckets go empty ?
Another picture form my Paani photo file : In Mumbai many of the slum and pavement dwellers begin their search for water at 3 am daily. Many having to buy water from the 'water mafia' at Rs 5 per 'Handi'. Considering that it takes upto 4/5 handi's to just cook a meal, many people are [...]
Between nothing and everything
The great Indian teacher Nisargadatta Maharaj once said, "Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. Between the two my life flows." "I am nothing" does not mean that there is a bleak wasteland within. It does mean that with awareness we open to a clear, unimpeded space, without center or [...]
Love is
Whoever said that love is eternal was describing all of creation. Love embraces all existence. But when they added that 'true love' is eternal they allowed the wisdom of love to blow away. There is just love. Neither true nor false. We can be in denial of it. But nothing else would hold the universe [...]
Monkey mind
morning rays wrote : "hi shekhar, when a thinker is silent it could mean 2 things.......a positive...that you're in the midst of ideas .....and a negative....your emotions are bottled up at the moment. when we visit your blog regularly there is a bond with you.......which makes us want to see you HAPPY ! share....... and [...]
Paani Script
3 years ago, before I started on Golden Age, I began to compile pictures of people that live on the streets and under the new highways. Pictures that would help in the research for what conditions are likely to be for people that live on streets and in water deprived conditions. As many of you [...]
Mythology or Psychology ?
where lies my true self ? am I a creature of my psychology or does my deepest self lie in the burning fires of my mythology ? so bold and so gripping that every feeling, every act lies in the imagined stories of God's and Goddesses of demons and of angels of the impossible dance [...]
Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank and the Nobel Peace prize.
In July of 1972, a young professor returned from the US to his native and newly independent Bangaladesh to be part of the building of a new Nation. He joined the Chttitagong University to teach Econmic theory. But in 1974 the great famine hit Bangladesh. Combined with the oil crisis of 1973 all economic structures [...]
Heath Ledger did not commit suicide
Heath is not amongst us, but is in our consciousness. Heath is no longer a physical embodiment, but exists eternally now. His laugh is not audible to my ears any more, but I can hear it in my heart. in my consciousness. And that is what I remember him most for. His laugh. Deep and [...]