This picture was taken circa 1990 when the mountain gods (the western ghats) with their gentle song were all we could see everywhere we looked. Check out the mud bound road and the half-saree clad higher secondary students (akkas then)… life was amazing here, it took me years to realise that. Here I am at …
An article I wrote for the church magazine… In Genesis, when God created everything from nothingness, s/he knew it was all good, “God saw all s/he had made, and indeed it was very good” (Genesis 1:31). Everything that existed from the beginning of creation was perfect like the Creator. That’s how wo/man was formed too, …
So this happened… I presented and defended my doctoral thesis titled “An Exploration into the Resilience of the Human Soul and Evolution of the Human Self: A Study of Select Autobiographies of Artists and Statesmen” at the university and I can’t believe it’s over. It’s actually… overwhelming to think of how I got …
NEVER stop doing your pushups, that is one exercise which gives you upper body strength. Never not love, that means when you feel and do things with love, you’re making life beautiful for you and everyone around you. Know that life is good, you may not understand or even figure out what you’re supposed to …
An article I wrote for my church magazine… Heaven is not faraway Growing up we get the impression that heaven is a place, somewhere up there in the skies. That’s how catechism makes God sound like a huge bearded man just wafting through the skies, watching us all from heaven. But oce you grow up …
The special school I used to work in released their Silver jubilee souvenir this year and here’s something I penned down for it. Hues of Warm Sunshine Shanthi Nilayam, School for the Mentally Challenged in Paruthivilai, is one of my favourite places on earth, I loved working here. I remember waking …
Videos of our 2017 trip… looking back at them now, I’m speechless and filled with wonder. Let’s see how it all feels when I scroll through these pages when I’m sixty years old… gratitude filling every fibre of my being. From Pisa, to Rome to Florence… exploring Italy. Road trip to France… Our trip to …
So after dropping Nam off at the airport in the previous post, me and Vinod stopped by this pretty church near the airport. To see a painting that Fr. Gabriel mentioned when we met him recently. And here’s the painting by the Swiss artist, Alexandre Cingria,… who is best known for his work on stained glass windows. Inside …
After exploring Coppet, we took the train back to Geneva and then bus 8 to Old Town, and walked a bit to reach the Geneva Street Food Festival. My brother met us here, and we spent the evening strolling around trying out different kinds of food… Cute food trucks…One of my favourite foods here, crepes…A …
The Last Girl (2017) by a Yezidi survivor, Nadia Murad, is filled with the bone-chilling sort of evil that the ISIS is synonymous with. Nadia poignantly captures the plight of her Yazidi village, Kocho, as the threat of ISIS looms large in the distance before becoming a reality. As with the Holocaust, no one really …