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Love is not enough
It is about the vitality that is needed in love for it to sustain.Also love is an act of involvement and throwing away to merge again.As the last line says about being thrown up in the air but still we know we are going to be safe once we come back.........maybe not always!
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Delhi in my belly!
The unbearable frothiness ,candy flossiness, of IPL comes through your words.Keep it going for you have nothing to lose except the branded T's.
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Nagaland,Singur and other thoughts
Dear Gorgoneye,
Thanks for your comments. We spoke to a few Naga friends and googled out the information. First you need an inner line permit. We got it from Nagaland House ,Delhi.I caught a train, the Guwahati Rajdhani which goes to Dimapur. In Dimapur you can stay in a guest house, just google.I stayed in Hotel Saramati.Advance bookings are of no use as none of the hotels we booked in had a memory of our bookings! But you push your way through,call,ask for names and book regardless. Then take a shared taxi to Kohima, its very reasonable. Rooms are available of all prices.I took a bus back to Guwhati from Dimapur and caught a cheap flight from there to Delhi. All travelling cost less than six thousand.This was a couple of years ago.
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Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
Well done.Pretty long,but then you are an intellectual type Bengali !( who eats fish head and so has brains- folk Punjabi saying!) Also Bengali women know kala-jadoo and can turn you into a kabootar! So which mad Punjabi is going to take on a Bengali woman ! Not this one....
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Life Today
"Yeh Duniya mil bhi jaye to kya hai"
Guru Dutt ji ke shagird aapka blog space main swagat hai.
Duniya khojne jaoge to shunya milega
Aapne ko khojo ,anant milega.
Woh anant hoga,to duniya aapke aaspass
Mela lagaigi,aur aap duniya se bhagoge !
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Bypassing Jaipur-Changing Castes,natural dyeing and Bum-Chik-Bum in Kaladera
Thanks isabee and pure friendship for commenting,
The combination of craft,beauty,fun and creativity does not make change a serious activity.Our idea has always been on working together with traditional artisans in a spirit of easygoing exchange.We learn from them and they learn from us.Together we enrich each other culturally and materially.
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A book on North-east India.
The Nort east is an anthropological Paradise.There are hundreds of distinct tribes.There are also millions of tea-tribes,labourers that were brought there by the British from Central India.Regions like Tripura has had so much immigraation that the origonal tribes are a minority now.Bangladesh,Bihar and Nepal are poor and millions of immigrants keep coming.
If local tribes did not take up arms they would ave been vnquished like the red-indians or the aboriginies.The Indian elite as displaced tens of millions of tribals all over India due to Dams,mining and big projects without any rehab and resettlement.Human Rights is not an issue in development aywhere in the world.Modernity,imperialism made the model of exploiting the perpihery to feed the centre.Now we do it to our own tribals.Now farmers with new concept of SEZ. India was maintained on a very thin thread of consensus which is now being broken with impunity by Indian elites.There is soon going to be lots of action.According to research on the ground more than 10,000 farmers are commiting suicide even in Punjab every year.
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Foodwalking
Brilliant ! To spend years experimenting,finding all the spots is history making work! and you call it loafing! You are a true Rasik Mahanubhav! There should be awards for this.The Lonely Planet guide should contact you for your concept of "Food walks".
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India's aversion to history
"In the end, we can safely accept and claim that it was NOT because of lack of a historical consciousness or that of intellectual acumen that India for a greater part of its civilization, did not record its history, but for reasons entirely ethical and humane. "
West knows and reads its history so well, and they have had the imperialism,the world wars and now the world heads towards water wars and ecocide,despite the fact of humans knowing that many civilisations have vanished due to overstretching the natural resource base. What matters is vision of life for the present and future.Itihas aaccording to many rishis was that which made us live more fulfilled lives.We need more poetry and myth telling that turns us into better humans than records of dates of empires and wars.
If our cultural and spiritual ideal was moksha/nirvana , personal mystical liberation, millions of brilliant people in our land through time must have spent their best years contemplating.Maybe that does not make us into not great conqerors ,but despite everything we thrive.As Galbraith said we are a "functioning anarchy" .From a social structure like an army to one of a chaotic democracy,there are many gradations,guess each culture has to find its own balance.But I consider the Indian experiment to be an amazing one.
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Women in the 21st Century
"The greatest revolution would be the moment man accepts in principle and in understanding the fact of invisibility of womans’s being and existence to most of mankind.That his evolution was built on limited area or geography of nature,so he could evolve different alphabets of a universal language yet to be worded.That language would help him embark on a journey of unlimited love and relating between man and woman.Till that moment,all the frictions,the confusions of men against men,thought against thought,part truth against part truth were his pains of delivering into the earth the pieces of the jigsaw of his ultimate destiny with her.When the final synthesis will begin ,all his sustainable creations and activities will find their place in the evolving relationship between man and woman, humanity and nature as one free dynamic whole."
Dear Chitra, this is from my blog "The Feminocentric Universe" building on the Ardhnarishwar and Shakti concept too. I found your blog while googling Ardhnarishwar. Read it and enjoyed.There is a great future for feminism once combined with spirituality and mutual freedom of her and the male of the species.
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