Bertrand Russell’s Why I am not a Christian led me on a voyage of discovery, not only into the writings of this extraordinary man, but also to think very deeply about our blind faith in God and religion. The line “If I were granted omnipotence and millions of years to experiment in, I should not …
Month: November 2020
That picture of the Milky Way is from the internet, but the scene in the sky on that night I walked up the hill with my grandmother was uncannily close. The night sky gives us perspective, and perhaps the reason why “uneducated” village folk like Panikkar, who taught me what the word equanimity truly means, was …
Now that I have TIME… to reminisce and to take pause, to reflect on what I have learnt from each of you at our weekend tennis mornings, here are my musings…… PRATAP Pratap is the quintessential big point player. Every good tennis player knows that all points in tennis are not the same- but only …
I don’t wake up at 530am every weekend for our 2 hours of tennis for all the obvious reasons – health, exercise, physical activity. Tennis for me is much more than that. I think Shobha knows it too – that this is the only time I have Freedom from Time. Yes, tennis does that for …
My great grandmother died as a child. She was 96. She was never married. She was handpicked by the local Brahmin ( Namboodiri) to have a “sambandham” ( relationship). He was 64. She was 19. She didn’t have a choice. It didn’t last. Not much beyond a year. He slipped out literally leaving her holding …
1938 – 2019 Rest in Peace.
I was ten years old. While on school holidays at our ancestral home in the tiny hamlet of Aliparamba in Kerala, Ammamma, my mothers’ mother, asked me – “do you want to come to the temple with me tomorrow morning”