Change before you have to

Summer is here! As I feel the sweat over my brow I wonder how warm and long the days ahead will be. But hey, this is the season when laziness finally finds respectability… Read More →

A day in the city of joy

Here’s about a wonderful day I spent in Kolkota, a city that at the first glance looks like she’s got trapped in a time warp (as if you’ve just stepped into a theater set of a 1950s… Read More →

Uniqueness is commonplace

We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really… Read More →

Photo Challenge: Love

“If music be the food of love, play on..” ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night. See more love here.

Beyond cobbled alleys

The air was soft, the promise of every cobbled alley so great that I thought I was in a dream.  ~ Jack Kerouac It is indeed magical to wander the little cobbled streets with… Read More →

Light is in my name

My name, Deepali, literally means ‘a row of lamps’  in Sanskrit. The story is that I was born around Diwali, the Indian festival of lights and my mom’s doc said it’s auspicious and… Read More →

He passes through walls!!

Le Passe-Muraille (the Passer-Through-Walls) by Marcel-Aymé in Paris.  Le Passe-Muraille is the title of a story by Marcel Aymé about a man named Dutilleul who discovers that he can (you guessed it) walk through walls. The… Read More →

Weekly Photo Challenge: Delicate

“The questions worth asking come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life.” - Robert B. Laughlin See some… Read More →

Big and oddly at ease :-)

This big chevy is calmly parked at an apparel store’s winter collection and not in a garage. I found it so cute; oddly at ease amid the frenzy of  holiday shoppers all around it.… Read More →

Photo Challenge: Happy

“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.” - Abraham Lincoln Shrek sure knows that well..a green ogre, who travels along with an annoying donkey to regain his swamp… Read More →