do not fear me for i have nothing to take from you my vast emptiness has no room for all the wealth in the world be fearless and reveal yourself to me for what you hide and protect and enclose in your illusion, your individuality, is the thinnest skin of your real being for beyond [...]
Renting out your body for sex – should it be legal ?
Notice I did not use the word prostitution. Somehow like suicide, it has a nasty and abhorrent ring to it. People kill themselves because for some reason they are unable to face life day to day. Whether the situation is real, or provoked by chemical imbalances in the brain, ( induced perhaps by medication), there [...]
Heath Ledger and Four Feathers
Dear Shekhar – It is a month and two days since he has past. This is the night of the Academy Awards and he is still very much on my mind. I somehow got linked to your site partly because of my discovery of your movie The Four Feathers which I will come back to. [...]
just a thought
"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 [...]