Back to my Space
Monday, 10. May 2004 - 4:46 PM
For those wondering why I haven’t blogged for more than a week, the answer is: holiday. A well-deserved break from the rut I had gotten into. The place? Bombay (I won’t call it Mumbai for the life of me). Now, Bombay is hardly my idea of a holiday; me prefers quieter places like Wyanad or Kulu-Manali. The holiday also happened to be timed to enable me to attend a friend’s wedding in Mulund.
But the real holiday destination was a 3-day long chill out at what has now become a must-visit-once-a-year place: Alibag, the fabulous beach-and-fort locale just a couple of hours from Mad, Bad, Bombay. More on this in a separate entry, complete with photos.
Meanwhile, I’m back to blogging.
PS: Ravikiran, I’ll surely try to meet you the next time I come there.
11. May 2004 - 7:06 PM
Well I hope that you have more friends of marriageable age in Mumbai
And Mulund is close to where I live.
11. May 2004 - 7:10 PM
Ravi,
That makes it all the more worse
Wish I could meet you. Anyway, there’s always a next time.
4. July 2004 - 11:37 AM
What a confused or lollypop mind it says at one place or heriatge probably ancient one does not accept Mumbai for Bombay (is it he city bamed after 93 bomb blasts)
Your words: I’ll leave you to dwell on this before signing off: a majority of, if not all protests against British rule were rooted in the Vedic/Hindu spiritual ethos: be it Dayananda Saraswati’s call of Back to the Vedas, or Tilak’s spiritual unification of Maharashtra using Ganesha as the unifying force (which continues till date), or Mahatma Gandhi’s insistence on non-violence and satyagraha. Despite this, why do we hesitate to take pride in our cultural/spiritual identity? Why do we quickly adopt labels of progressive/secular without fully understanding what they mean or whether they really apply in the Indian context?