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Occasional trips of an always-on mind...
Saturday, August 1, 2026
Varanasi: A Timeless Cauldron of Chaos and Divinity
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“What’s your name again?” I asked the man who, with a tilak on his forehead, looked more like a pundit than a taxi driver. I was not sure if...
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Why Matthiessen’s Snow Leopard is a mountain of a book
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…and why you must scale it, at least once in your life. The Snow Leopard was lying on my bookshelf for more than five years before I picke...
Sunday, November 30, 2025
There is something special about chai
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There’s something about chai that no other beverage offers by way of sukoon —just as there’s no word, other than sukoon , that describes the...
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
The divine, magical sound of gurbani
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I have been listening to bhajans since early childhood but it is only in the past couple of years that I fell under the divine spell of sh...
Sunday, September 21, 2025
The many joys of doing ‘walking meditation’
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The image of Buddha sitting in meditation is etched in our hearts. But there’s another way the Enlightened One practiced meditation, and h...
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