#Dressing_up #Dressing_down My daughter loves to dress up. She has a good sense of style that is classy, and understands what is appropriate dressing in a given occasion. However, I gave her a lecture yesterday, and emphasized on two opposite issues simultaneously. Its a fairly complicated issue and I hope I made sense … 1. […]
#Evangelist_versus_Sentinelise An American evangelist John Allen Chau’s killing by an isolated indigenous Sentinelise group in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands has sparked multiferous international debates. Who is right in action and intention, the evangelist or the tribals ? Which side must the World take ? The Sentinelise people’s fierce determination to remain isolated and right […]
#Icecream_and_Religion. It was a usual Saturday night family ice cream session, when that question came from the kids… “Baba, can anyone change their Religion ??” … A mighty tough one to answer …. However, I took on the question, and here’s what my answer to the 13 and 11 year old ones, looks like … […]
#Agastya_Banerjee aka #Bullet turns 11 today, #Happy_Birthday son. Remembering the great philosopher #Kahlil_Gibran ‘s words on this day… #On_Children Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to […]
We are essentially romantic people, who love their stories of Love-drama- tragedy and are mostly shaped by Hindi movies. Last few days, I was trying to read up a lot about the love story of Prince Salim (Jahangir) and Anarkali, all that I could find in the internet. Data from internet are never always trustworthy, […]