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  • Social Media, soulfood

    Twitter meetup at Leopold Cafe Mumbai 30/11/2008

    11.29.08 | Dina | Permalink | 15 Comments

    From Suketu Mehta’s heartfelt piece in the OpEd at New York Times:
    If the rest of the world wants to help, it should run toward the explosion. It should fly to Mumbai, and spend money. Where else are you going to be safe? New York? London? Madrid?
    So I’m booking flights to Mumbai. I’m going to go [...]

  • Indian Culture, soulfood

    … and then there was Light

    11.28.08 | Dina | Permalink | 1 Comment

    Picture source - The Big Picture. More amazing pictures on the site, many are visceral and disturbing.  Description of this image: “Schoolchildren hold candles during a vigil held in memory of the victims of Wednesday’s shootings in Mumbai, in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad November 27, 2008. Elite Indian commandos fought room to [...]

  • soulfood

    At home in Khandala

    11.04.08 | Dina | Permalink | 11 Comments

    “I should be content
    to look at a mountain
    for what it is
    and not as a comment
    on my life”
    –David Ignatow

    More pictures at Flickr.

  • Voices of the World, soulfood

    Woman: Inspiration and Celebration

    11.03.08 | Dina | Permalink | 1 Comment

    A celebration of women.
    “Last month 26 women from around the world took a moment to write an inspiring sentence. Each woman has shared something unique - please take the time to read the message on each slide.”
    A Woman’s Investment
    View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: opportunity_intermational microcredit)

  • Indian Culture, soulfood

    I was and am so humbled

    10.01.08 | Dina | Permalink | 11 Comments

    It’s festival time here and I am baulking at how much people spend on celebrations, rituals and the accompanying firecrackers that are driving me crazy. It makes me so furious sometimes that people who have to work so hard and live a hand-to-mouth existence, just blow up their money like this.
    Then I remembered this [...]

  • soulfood

    The Face in the Mirror

    08.07.08 | Dina | Permalink | 4 Comments

    “The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber & cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.” John Muir

    My best friends - a couple I’ve known since my childhood days - are going through probably one of [...]

  • soulfood

    Soul Food

    12.20.07 | Dina | Permalink | Comment?

    My collection of quotes that really inspire me to be who I am and to live the way I do today - added to the navigational banner:
    “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” [...]

  • soulfood

    Thought for the day ….

    11.15.07 | Dina | Permalink | 8 Comments

    [Image courtesy: Secret Path]
    In the middle of the road of my life
    I awoke in the dark wood
    where the straight road was lost.
    Translated from Dante’s La Commedia Divina