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Ever thought that a small piece of land in your society could be transformed into a thick dense forest. And No, you don’t have to wait for decades to see the results. You could grow a fully self sustainable dense forest in 3-4 years. Miyawaki urban forest is the answer to growing environmental problems such…Read More
Recently we were invited by the Rotary group of Deonar President, Rtn. Vidhya Subramanian to take a BEST bus ride with her and the other rotary members and also attend a felicitation function afterwards. It was not just any regular ride and felicitation. The 42 meters long BEST was not only driven by a woman…Read More
This article is not about about a song that was sung by Bhupinder Singh for the film Gharonda, but about a red post box that I noticed this morning near Ahobila Mutt. I walk on that road almost everyday and still fail to notice it due to cars parked in front of it. But this…Read More
This morning, to my surprise, I was woken up by the sounds of vedic chants playing in my mind. I am not a very religious person. I do pray but my knowledge of vedic chants is limited to a few that I have grown up reciting every day as prayers in school. I recently had…Read More
India has a longstanding tradition of song, dance, music and theatre. Music was always used as a medium for venerable purpose of worshipping the God. Devotional songs were not only sung by a group of people called Keertanakars but also by the street singers and performers or Kavadias. In Maharashtra they are known as Vasudevs. A traditional…Read More
Sitting in my balcony, as I looked outside at the sprawling green Chembur Golf Course( also known as BPGC), I realised I hadn’t sat here in a long time. Stuck in a daily routine, I had failed to notice the beauty of nature. Monsoon has arrived, bringing with it a relief not just from hot…Read More
On a cold September morning in 1947, fifteen year old Kamala and her family embarked on an arduous, three day journey by ship towards their new home, Independent India. With limited space for a family of five to barely sit together, they journeyed to the port of Bombay (now Mumbai,) where they dreamed of making…Read More