Mahalaxmi Temple
My first employment after graduation was in a private college in Orissa where my uncle served as the Principal. He was known as a...
Fort and Dharavi
Taxi drivers in Mumbai are loyal and diligent. While I was wondering if I could find the driver, I saw him waiting right at the final...
Mahim and back
Thinking about the human conditions in slums is stressful. Most of humanity is poor but they do not live in slums. The basic fabric of...
Departure from Mumbai
Mornings in Jitendra's apartment are pretty quiet. Though he retired as a fairly high-level senior civil servant, he had not acquired...
Chennai
I am on my way to Chennai, the southern city in Tamil Nadu, "the Land of the Tamils". Tamil is an old community in India having a...
Road to Puducherry
Resurgence of India to her place in the world has not been easy and is stil in the making. According to the compiled statistics India...
Sri Aurobindo Ashrama
One needs a detailed background check before settling in to a hotel in South Asia. India was going through various foreign incursions...
Sri Aurobindo Society
There is a common kitchen and dining hall for people who live in the Ashram. While people can have their own meal arrangements, the...
Seminar at Sri Aurobindo Society
The lunch fare was as democratic as earthy. There were wheat chapatis, rice, thick dal, a vegetable stew. There were boiled eggs in a...
Waterfront, evening, departure
I grew up with my grandmother in a tranquil village near the coastal town of Puri, Odisha. Puri has the thousand year old Temple...
