My oldest memory of happiness begins with her walking towards me. She was blushing and almost bursting with joy. In the red dress she seemed to flow, as if she was gently drifting toward me. That moment felt as if time was passing slowly. Her presence, the feeling of her being there. The way she […]
Not everyone goes to the mandir to worship god? This was the question that arose in my mind when my landlord’s daughter asked me to accompany her to a Gurudwara. ‘It’s a place where we pray, Suraj. It’s a place of remembering Sri Guru Nanak Sahib’, she said. ‘You’ll get langar there. Ghee wala suji […]
Every great culture and civilization has a clear concept of its self identity. This definition is not rigid and can change with times, but it is perilous for any civilization to not know ‘who they are’, at any given time in history. The logic behind this is similar to the logic behind borders. They are […]
Once again going back to the days of my childhood as an anchor in time, I remember a world full of dukkha but empty of depression. This is what makes me wonder, whether depression is the way of the Shakti telling us that pain can never be completely eliminated from life, and when you remove […]