And a little more

I am reading The Seven Commandments of Bhagvad Gita by J P Vaswani. The third commandment is ‘ Thou shalt do your duty and a little more.’ As I was reading this so many people came to mind. I remembered all those students who had agreed happily to be scribes to my son during his…

The daily post photo Challenge – Summer Loving

Our summers are very hot, but fortunately the rains start in June and the temperature comes down. This year the rains started only in the first week of this month and we are having good rains. The other it was bright and raining. We caught sight of the sun shining through the leaves of the…

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Fire or Season of Summer

Fire is a very important part of our lives. The God of Fire is Agni and we worship Him daily.We light a lamp every morning and evening in our homes. We perform the Aarati after our prayers. Aarati is often performed with camphor. Finely rolled muslin cloth or cotton dipped in oil is also used.…

Turmoil

Sometimes he is very disturbed, keeps crying, shouting and running about. There are tears in his eyes and he cannot express the turmoil in his mind through words. And others cannot understand what is going on in his mind. He is a small boy who had been in the care of his grandparents but now…

The Daily Post Photo Challenge- Containers

My father-in-law enjoys making a very delicious of the inner part of the stem of the banana plant. We make many dishes from it. The stem is sliced and cut into fine pieces. It is mixed with curds.Salt and chopped pieces of garlic is added to it. This dish is made and served in this…

A word a week photograph challenge – Traditional

Traditional- long established or customary In our country cradle ceremony is a very important tradition. The baby sleeps in the cradle only after this ceremony. It is usually after the 10th day after offering prayers to God and observing certain rituals. These rituals vary from place to place. All close relatives come for this very…

Cee’s fun foto challenge- Wood/spring

This is the dwarf variety of the Areca nut palm tree in our garden. The flowers look beautiful when they burst out from their covering. The covering looks like a cap and after a few days it falls away. Now the outer covering of the areca nut is green colour. It becomes orange when ripe.…

Memories of Childhood ; Oil bath

What I love about reading is that it takes us into the world ofimagination. That world is sad or happy depending on what we read. While reading, certain words or characters strike achord and take us down memory lane and what Claudio Magrissays in his book, Danube, seems so true. “ Events which occurred many…

WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – RELIC

In 2011, we had been to Ahmedabad in the state of Gujarat. We saw that Lothal was just about two hours away from Ahmedabad. Lothal is one of the most prominent cities of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization ( 2400 BCE). It was also a vital trading centre of those times. We had grown up…

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Circles and Curves

Ours is a small town, with different Educational Institutions. The Medical College was established in 1953. This beautiful fountain is in the heart of our University Campus, which is bubbling with knowledge seekers.