A free flowing life gives you a maddening sense of lightness. Sometimes a bit unbearable. Is that lightness the ultimate sense of being? Is Peace, as we experience It as that ethereal smile on Buddha's face, a by-product of His free flowing life. Or is That He and others we think as Gods searched and … Continue reading Unbearable lightness of freedom

‘‎Leenham can drop you back to the hotel’, said the manager of DosaHut at Flushing's Ganesh temple. Leenham, the name made me expect a Chinese-American town car driver to show up. I waited. DosaHut is on Bowne Street in Flushing, a New York City suburb full of Asian settlers. It is a tiny restaurant. On … Continue reading Leenham, and the American Dream

‎Nepal is all over the news this week in the Indian media. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Kathmandu this weekend. Most of the Delhi edition newspapers carried extensive analysis of India-Nepal relations. Complex issues concerning India's historical relationship with Nepal. A second Constituent Assembly is attempting to draft a new constitution for Nepal. The … Continue reading Nepal

Why we say 'seeing is believing' and not ‘hearing is believing’? Why the word ‘hearsay’? In the world of experience, seeing is also a form of sensing, right? Eyes enable sight. And ears enable hearing. But, still we say I saw it with my own eyes attaching a supremacy to that sensorial process over the … Continue reading ‘Seeing is believing’ or ‘believing is seeing’?

It was the summer of 2011. I woke up seeing a missed call from Gopi. I was in San Jose planning to spend the rest of my week in the Bay Area. My phone, as usual, was on vibrate. I called back quickly. Gopi rarely calls. It is I who mostly call him. Son-dad type … Continue reading He had another week of wait at the ICU..