Forster with Bob in 1934E.M Forster the great novelist whose novel A Passage to India is well known to all of us, loved a man. Now loving a man in today's time is not a big deal but in those times it needed guts and our dear Forster had them in abundance. His poem Where Angels Fear to Tread makes a good line for his position as a Homo.Forster was a closeted homosexual and a lifelong bachelor. He developed a long-term, loving relationship with Bob Buckingham, a married policeman. Forster included Buckingh... read more »
One day a saint in Ancient India decided to do a astral travel. He instructed his followers to lock his one room house from outside and only unlock it when he asks for it from inside.His followers did the same. And he went deep into dhyaan and his soul left his body for the astral travel. Somehow his enemies got wind of his travel. They were already in need of a chance to wipe him off from the earth. And they now got the golden chance.During night when his followers were asleep some of his enemies hired ... read more »
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 One fine morning Prof. Prem Kanta came out of her air conditioned home and saw her boy servant Ramu plucking roses from her tiny garden. She noiselessly moved her steps towards him, caught him by ear and twirled it. Ramu shrieked in pain. “ Bloody Thief! How dare you steal my roses?” she asked. “ I need them for my mother,” Ramu defended himself. “ Mother? Your mother is a servant too, what will she do with them?” “ She is in the h... read more »
We can't change our circumstances. Our day begins and ends some days are good and some are bad. God makes all days alike and it is our perspective which makes them good or bad. Read on and you will find how perspective can make a day good or bad. At the beginning of my 8 a.m. class one Monday at University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), I cheerfully asked my students how their weekend had been. One young man said that his weekend had not been very good. He’d had his wisdom teeth extracted. The young man ... read more »
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 To be true, I have never heard about her before. But after reading an eulogy about her in The Hindu, I was curious to know about her. I googled and found her to be a German-born British and American Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter, married to Cyrus S. H. Jhabvala, an Indian Parsi architect. She resided in Delhi, India fortwenty-four years. And in 1975, she moved to New ... read more »
A Persian King Shahryar badly hurt by the infidelity of her first wife grew so bitter for the whole woman folk that he decided to marry a new virgin daily. He replaced the old one by getting her killed in the morning after relishing her for whole night. He had got rid of one thousand wives in this manner when he was introduced to Scheherazade, the vizier's daughter.Against her father's wishes Scheherazade married this crazy king. And at night when the king lay wide awake on his bed to savour her she aske... read more »
My bloggee pal Jenn over at 'SCRIBBLE FROM JENN'discovered this lit'l happiness meme through one of her bloggee pals and decided to join in on spreading some happiness along her blog travels. I've decided to do the same. Happiness is a state of mind, it's a choice. Think about what makes YOU happy and join in!How it works:Simply list your five ways to be happy, tag five people, and remember to tag back to the person who tagged you like I did in my first sentence.What makes me happy??? Being thankful. ... read more »
Once Buddha was travelling with a few of his followers.While they were passing a lake, Buddha told one of his disciples, "I am thirsty. Do get me some water from the lake." The disciple walked up to the lake. At that moment, a bullock cart started crossing through the lake. As a result, the water became very muddy and turbid. The disciple thought, "How can I give this muddy water to Buddha to drink?" So he came back and told Buddha, "The water in there is very muddy. I don't think it is fit to drink."... read more »
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 It was written on palm leaves. The Chinese had already invented the paper at that time but we Indians were busy filling our palms with soft and tender things. So we got no time to see outside that paper has arrived on the scene. Nevertheless what he wrote on palm leaves was enough to make the invention of paper seem pauperous. Today we will talk about our own Erotica writer sage Vatsyayana who said that: “ Texts on the science of kama ( ple... read more »
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 All of us hate the skin piercing sun in the summers. We do our best to avoid him. But after reading these you will find the tradition of ‘Surya Namaskaar’ (Sun Salutation) in Hinduism a cool concept to incorporate in your lives.---- Vitamin-D : Ample sunlight is necessary for its production by our body. The Vit. D is important for our bones but the most important is its responsibility for neuron growth and a positive mood. ---- Serotonin... read more »
