I’ve been spending my Saturday mornings in a way that’s extremely special to me. A very dear friend of mine recently underwent heart surgery and is trying to maintain her health by going on regular medium-intensity walks. And our girl gang gets together every weekend to join her on her walks, by the seaside. We motivate each other, encourage ourselves […]
Time is a cruel mistress. The ground that you walk on now once saw a young, energetic lot that ran the show. With their vigor, they ran their homes, their careers and the world. The same people who are now seniors around you—frailer than they were before—were once the youth that were the future. What do you think of when […]
It’s a beautiful rainy day in the city, and I’ve just settled in my living room’s corner chair looking at the mist outside. Somewhere in the room, matching beats with the tip tap of the rain against my window, my playlist of 1960s classic Bollywood music is playing. Ah, what bliss! I’ve always enjoyed listening to songs from what I […]
One of my closest friends rued the other day that she got updates about her children’s lives through Facebook more than she did from them personally. “Mala, how did it come to this?” she asked me, sighing. “Whatever happened to family time, spending quality moments with each other instead?” As I took off on a vacation with my daughter, I […]
I believe happiness is a state of mind. Even the great Hellen Keller agrees with me. She once said that happiness depends very little on outside circumstances. Many of us tie in the meter of our happiness with physical comforts and riches. When we have very little, we believe that getting to a certain station in life will make us […]
Every woman my age has experienced it; every woman navigating her way through life has seen it; and every young girl taking her first few steps into womanhood is beginning to feel it—the pressure of looking younger than you are. Just when you think society is pressuring you to look younger than you are, you realize it’s not about […]
What does it truly mean to be a woman? Even after six decades of existence, I often find myself wondering what the essence of womanhood truly is. It always makes me smile when I see senior women dance like no one’s watching, at some of the events I conduct. They bust moves, throw their heads back and laugh and just […]
One moment can change the day. One day can change your life. One life can change the world. There’s a story about a mountaineer I love. Let’s call him Hans; Hans had just climbed the Kilimanjaro and he, with his team, was headed back when they found themselves caught in a violent storm. When the storm finally stopped raging, the […]
Should parents be friends with their children? A balance has to be struck. Raman entered the ashram with his shirt torn and a cut across his cheek which was bleeding. “A few boys standing outside were speaking ill of you, Guruji, and so I got into a fight with them,’’ he explained. You should ignore what others say about me, […]
“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.” — Søren Kierkegaard * Just recently, I went out for a long […]
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