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Visiting Dwarkadheesh

Travel

The air smells of salt and incense. Chants of Om Namo Bhagwate Vasudevaay, Om Namah Shivaay and the Hare Krishna Mahamantra sound through the backdrop of bathers, shoppers and the colourful bazaar. These chants are recorded into a gadget with a deity's picture...
Tags: Gujarat, India, Dwarka, Okha, travelogue
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Ayurveda by Ashok Majumdar

Books

Ayurveda understands the teamwork of body and mind to achieve optimal health and happiness. Ayurvedic healing is built upon the concept of tridosha, the three bioregulatory principles that sustain the human body: vata, pitta and kapha. Vata, pitta and kapha in turn are ruled by the five elements that make up all matter: fire, air, water, earth and space.
Tags: book-review, book-excerpt, Ayurveda
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An interview with Yoga guru BKS Iyengar

Yoga

They had lots of money those days so they knew only wine and women and wealth. So, how to transform them? It was not so easy. So, I used to tell them in their own language, ‘If you want to enjoy, enjoy. But have the power to enjoy! You have no strength. What is the use of simply tempting yourself?
Tags: BKS-Iyengar, interview, yoga, mind
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Himalayan Trek - Govind Ghat to Ghangharia

Travel

Even with help from a sturdy walking stick getting a foothold is a challenge at these heights. With ponies jostling up and down the narrow, dung-splattered track, and the ponies’ keepers warning us of the approaching animals doesn’t make the trek easier.
Tags: Himalaya, trek, Uttarakhand, travelogue, Hemkund
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Wine vinegars of India

Ayurveda

Wine unless stabilized by suitable additives quickly commences to turn into vinegar. The regional cuisines and traditional medicine of India has long used the comparatively easier-to-make vinegars from fruit, plants and even fish! While the Indian wine industry has not really started making wine vinegars commercially, we take a closer look around home to appreciate traditional vinegars of India.
Tags: Wine, Ayurvedic-food, health
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Travel guide - Dudhwa National Park

Travel

Butterflies by the dizzy hundred prance around on fairy-wings in the shrubbery. Monitor lizards and pythons meditate in quiet solitude. Hispid hares scurry in dark undergrowth. Crocodiles sun themselves on sandy riversides. Otters gurgle with joy at the abundance and variety of fish. Tigers and leopards thicken the night air with growls and roars. This is life at Dudhwa National Park in Uttar Pradesh, India. Where's the one-horned rhino? Find out...
Tags: travel-guide, Uttar-Pradesh, Himalaya, nature, National-Park,
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Happiness quotient - your smile

Relax

A smile is just a quotient for happiness. No matter how bleak the winter of insensitivity, or the gap in communication, a smile is like the sun that connects and warms immediately.
Tags: wellness, mental-health, mind
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Monkey mela in Lucknow

Relax

Living right next to the Lucknow Zoo, I’m beginning to doubt my residential address; thanks to the monkey brigade in my courtyard! The morning wake-up roar of the lions and call of the Hooku bander used to a distant reminder of the neighbourhood, but ever since the advent of the Rhesus family amongst us, we feel part and parcel of the Zoo itself, though a paradigm shift is involved: the monkeys are free and we are caged as long as they are around!
Tags: India, Lucknow, humour, musings, fauna, Uttar-Pradesh
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