This is for my dear friend Alok, who firmly believes he is tone deaf. Please set aside 20 minutes and see what the wonderful, inimitable Benjamin Zander has to say. And see if your eyes don’t shine too.
Everyone else too!
Without even trying, I’ve managed to collect ten yoga instruction videos. Shilpa Shetty’s video came to me quite by chance, thanks to a friend.
I remember reading about Shilpa Shetty and some kind of fantastic “power yoga” that sounded like it was something no one had discovered until now. I had promised myself I’d check it [...]
I finished reading Bombay Rains Bombay Girls with a huge sense of achievement. I used to be a-book-a-night person, but my unenviable, largely non-correctable eyesight soon put a stop to that. But I so miss reading that I picked up the first book that seemed to have comfortable-looking print at Gangaram’s, Bangalore and made off [...]
In most households, a pen is just that — a pen. In mine, a pen was something to be treasured and treated with careful reverence. That’s because, the rest of us have always wanted to be as brilliant at calligraphy as my father is.
Very recently, my father, after nearly 55 years, managed to get in [...]
The Indian national anthem sung to perfection by this perfect doll, Sia Iyer. Sia also manages to sing another tongue-twisting national song, Vande Mataram.
And another incredibly sweet, charming little girl does the same, with a little bit of help.
I’ve decided to take one Pilates exercise a day, and add it to my dance workouts. Of course many of the dance workouts have yoga and Pilates inspired moves to begin with, but by focusing on one exercise at a time outside of the workouts I want to try and perfect them. It isn’t just [...]
What you see here is the face of penguinphobia. Thanks to her uncle, this little girl is petrified of the curious, comical birds everyone else loves. The thing is, Pushpi is a force to be reckoned with and is afraid of nothing at all. Disciplining her or getting her to do anything, including take her [...]
When Sankar Sridhar puts iris and ink to work, he captures the stark beauty of the amazing places he travels to. Places that may soon never be the same again as progress blasts its way through nature and centuries-old habitat.
This isn’t a special effect or a man in levitation. This Zanskari man, like many of [...]
Here’s something mesmerizing, soothing and meditative. Ilana Yahav is a sand animation artist and paints with sand on a glass table. She swirls and throws and brushes the sand around till it flows. In the background, music and sounds flow too. The effect is rivetting. Watch her at her own website at Sand Fantasy.