Every year is different and why shouldn’t it be so…. if we have two consecutive years moving the same way then there is a problem….. so 2013 was different from 2012… It was a much busier year…. more busy than what I would want it to be… There was not much balance between work and life….. but then life is not a balancing act because … Continue reading 2013 A Personal Rewind
We decided to visit the “Valley of Fire” on one of our days in Vegas… Of all these years coming here we had missed this place… just an hour drive from the strip… Our six year old was not very amused… he tried persuading us to revisit Excalibur and circus circus… where he says there are more small kid’s games rather than big kid’s games… … Continue reading Valley of Fire, Kids, Trust and some Random Thoughts
It takes a whole lifetime for any son to be worthy enough to write about their mother and even then still one needs more time…. So what I write today is not because I am worthy… but because I owe every element of my existence to you… just like any son to their mother.. Today is her birthday…. one day after our wedding anniversary…. Since … Continue reading Happy Birthday Amma!
Farookh Sheikh was our actor next door…. No Dishum Dishums….. No screaming… soft… loving… and an exceptional actor….. His movies are favorites for a whole generation… Especially when the screen was filled with Angry young men, revenge thirsty heros and disco kings… Farookh came and lived some magnificent moments on the silver screen that each of us were able to connect…. Noorie, Chashme Baddoor, Saath … Continue reading Farookh Sheikh – Characters that made us part of the film
Vegas you are still pretty… when I met you first time eleven years ago you dressed up like you were just married… the lights, the glitter, the stars shining on every street of yours….. I asked my friend who had taken me there and he said…. she is always like this… she gives that first night excitement to everyone who comes here… it does not … Continue reading The Sincity
“Mandela! Mandela! Nelson Mandela!…… Mandela! Mandela! Nelson Mandela!… Free… Free… Nelson Mandela! Free… Free… Nelson Mandela!” as we shouted slogans and walked through the college verandah showing solidarity to the international community demanding the release of Madiba.. we were being part of an international outcry…. The year was 1988 the Pre-degree years and initial years of my political baptism….. As we walk through the corridors … Continue reading Remembering Madiba and some personal notes on Freedom
Today it rained…. like every year… the first one this year…. as usual the summer had locked up a whole chest of memories, faces, events, images and tastes from the ever desiring past…. the fragrance in the air is now irresistible… the fragrance born when the rain blankets the earth and makes love throughout the night…. Every year every rain pours that intoxicating past on … Continue reading What the rain tells me
Yesterday after the Halloween “trick or treats” and after my scheduled daily calls from work at night as I sit down to read a few lines… Our younger one who was still awake (courtesy to his afternoon Nap) asks me “can you read me a big book” Thinking he should be referring to the size of the book I tell him “yes go get the … Continue reading Neruda and our six year old
A few months back on a picture of my son that I posted on Facebook a friend of mine asked “Why do only children smile genuinely?” And at that time I replied saying “Probably because they don’t keep worrying about what they don’t have, can enjoy a moment and are often devoid of any fear.” But when I thought more about it I had one … Continue reading Smiles timed between clock ticks and camera clicks
As human beings we have a consistently increasing ability to learn and teach… and of course an intelligently cultivated skill to forget…. This in one way also probably defined our transitions in the latter parts on the evolutionary road… Some even religiously forget the ape connection…. But what we have also acquired in this process is a strong inhibition to accept that we learned something … Continue reading Learning Teaching Forgetting and Breathing
Vinod Narayan 