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My Lazy TEDIndia Post

November 8, 2009

Actually, my super lazy blogpost post TEDIndia. It was an absolutely fantastic experience and the best part was meeting such a great group of people. I feel incredibly fortunate, and humbled to have been a TEDIndia Fellow.
I’ll be blogging more thoughts and pictures in the next few days, but for now, here’s a compilation of [...]

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Twitter meetup at Leopold Cafe Mumbai 30/11/2008

November 29, 2008

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 [...]

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… and then there was Light

November 28, 2008

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 room [...]

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At home in Khandala

November 4, 2008

“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.

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Woman: Inspiration and Celebration

November 3, 2008

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
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I was and am so humbled

October 1, 2008

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 incident [...]

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The Face in the Mirror

August 7, 2008

“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 [...]

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Soul Food

December 20, 2007

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.” [...]

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Thought for the day ….

November 15, 2007

[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

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