Green Cover…

Nanda Road
Image thanks to rednivaram

As I stood on the sidewalk and looked up at the sky, a sight greeted me… A sight that I hadnt taken time out of my otherwise useless days to acknowledge. The sky was cloudy with the imminent possibility of rain, the scattered sunlight from the sun, now close to the horizon, made the silhouette even more beautiful.

I had driven on this road over a million times in the past 25 years, I had walked it a few times but never ran it. Suddenly the overwhelming urge to run once on it overcame me, combined with the fear that I probably had very little time to do it in, almost had me in tears.

The pleasure of driving this stretch is simply unexplainable. Even on the hottest days, the beauty of a green cover made the drive soothing. I remember that on rainy days the trees almost acted like an umbrella and the cool wind left one no choice but to love and admire mother nature.

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My Experiments With Beliefs…

What is your greatest fear?

I was 19 when that question was stuck in my head. Looking at in plainly it didn’t seem like a hard to answer. For some people it is death, for some it is insects and for some public speaking (that always reminds me of this Seinfeld Quote)… But what was the greatest fear for anyone. Ofcourse everybody didn’t have exactly one thing/event/whatever that scared them the most, it varied from person to person. I was hell bent on discovering the common thread that held them all together. Eventually I did find the answer.

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Down that Memory Lane…

Lately I have been dedicating time to clean up my room, to the delight of my mother. Considering I have a lot of crap unused stuff stored away, I thought its the right time to minimize and put away things I dont use regularly to a proper storage. If you want to install custom storage cabinets and shelves in your home, you may consider hiring a Custom Closet Company in Philadelphia, PA.

A couple of days back I decided to take out all my old college books and move them. The main idea being that I could not find a couple of my old books and thought they are mixed up with those books. Fortunately I found the books I was looking for, but more importantly I found pieces of the past along the way.

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Adi Parva

mahabharata

I just finished reading Volume 1 of the Mahābhārata known as the “Adi Parva“. Mahābhārata is one of the two greatest epics of India, the other being Ramayana. The epic has Eighteen Volumes, each of about 300 pages of Sanskrit Poetry. The english translation I am reading is about 850 pages in length.

As most of my friends I have spent a lot of my childhood listening, reading and watching stories from the Mahābhārata. I remember waking up early on Sundays when I was a kid to watch an hour of the TV adaptation of the book (That TV show apparently holds the record for the most watched show ever!). The characters from the book, let it be the famous Arjuna or the divine Krishna or the giving Karna or the brave Abhimanyu or even the cunning Shakuni, were characters we knew even as kids. We grew up hearing their stories and understanding their greatness. In every sense, Mahābhārata has been and will always be a huge part of me.

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Conversations With Her – Stories of Love…

Me: I wanted to ask this question to you…
Her: Yeah, go ahead
Me: I asked the same question to a few of my friends and got some interesting responses. I wanted to hear what you would say?
Her: Ok, so are you simply building the suspense?

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