Gokulashtami, Ganpati, the Garba..
I opened my window on Sunday and heard the strains of Govinda aala re, aala zara matki sambhal Brijbala… the hit film song of the 60’s reverberating, as ‘Gokulashtami’ was being celebrated with ‘Dahi Handi’ groups moving about like warriors to win prize money.
I knew the festival season had arrived.
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It was a Virar Fast, my cousin from Delhi and I took thirty years ago. “Bob you remember our trip to Virar?” Zarina asked as she visited Mumbai a few days back.
We were young and having an afternoon free decided for a lark to take the Virar Fast local and then return home to [...]
Something the whole world owes India is better health through breathing exercises taught through yoga.
“Hold your breath!” says the instructor and thousands of people in classes all over do so, and then slowly, ever so slowly exhale. The world has reason to rejoice because in the land where this discipline originated from very same [...]
Looked out of my window this morning to see what my gardener was up to: He was up to much; washing the cars of folk who stay down the road, cracking a joke with the pump man and chatting with the watchmen on why the rains should come on time, and a lot of other [...]
