Every time I hear it in line at any local barista I silently cringe inside. It’s the same reaction I get in regards to so many other misappropriations of yoga,…
“You don’t plan India, India plans you” Nicole Jaquis talks about some of her biggest lessons after several years navigating the most amazingly well orchestrated chaos that is India.
This…
As a wanderer... Our names have been changed so many times we begin to cling to our original crumbling identity even more, our ears now buzzing with mantras lost in…
Five years ago today, January 24th, having cleared my debts (student loans & credit cards), quit my job (running a community multimedia center), and packed up my material belongings (to…
I sit in my crowded room, mostly taken up by the double bed, which actually doubles, shall I say triples as a sleep-sadhana-work/study space. And as I watch myself… jump…
“Who checks your diary?”
Shradha asked me once as I tried to hide what it was I was writing, out of habit, as if she could actually read and understand…
My cousin was writing a book.
Now is the time to make peace with your past, so you don’t mess up the present!
“Aging Is A Full Time Job” by Marcia Casar…
[first written as part of my application to volunteer at Ashram Paryavaran Vidyalaya]
What is your conception of a quality school and educational program?
The model you have set forth for your…
Once shadowed by skyscrapers,
my sun now filtered with smog.
The roar of the ocean makes it difficult to recall
feelings I‘ve had negotiating Times Square traffic
on a bike.
The man in the elevator…
Somehow in my reflections on 9.11, the idea of pursuing the very same American Dream that so many Indians I met along my travels held envy for, just doesn't seem…