Welcome to 20th Edition of “Shadow Dancing
With Mind”. This Edition has the following topics.
First day of Hindu Literary Festival 2011 – Chennai
I have had met Renie Revin almost a year back at one of the
Social Media meet organised by another good friend. Renie's talk interested me
to get on to the IndiBlogger and
share thoughts with another passionate bloggers from across the world...
and last sunday, it was the first time I attended the blogger meet. It
was a great journey from being a individual blogger for personal satisfaction
to connecting with like minded people from all walks of life....
UP CLOSE
& PERSONAL:
The section gives
you insights of some of the people I have had a chance to meet, interact or have
read about that have made a deep impression on my thoughts and feelings...
Recently I came across an artist, whose paintings made me
think about Salvador
Dali. Vladimir Kush’s painting style hits you with a new vision,
color and ideas about the things he paints about... just like the Dali...
When we look back at our life and question ourselves...
where we are going, what are we doing and what this life is all about... etc,
we don’t really have a clear cut answer? We rationalize, we wonder and
sometimes we doubt if we are doing anything at all. Or we are just hollow and
empty shell trying to fill our existence with possessions, belongings,
ideologies, beliefs etc...
TALKING
POINT:
Some of the things
that is happening around me, as I get into the daily grind of my life every day,
which has made to stop and then think....
My younger brother send me this wonderful talk “How Will You
Measure Your Life” given by Harvard Business School Professor Clay Christensen
to the graduating class of 2010 on their request to address them, “not on how
to apply his principles and thinking in their post HBS careers but how to apply
them to their personal life.” ...
Some days back, I woke up to read that Mahan Maharaj of Belur Math won
the highest honor of mathematics in India "Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award".
Mahan Maharaj is a Monk at Belur Math in Kolkata, set up by another great
spiritualist, Swami Vivekananda. ...
First day of Hindu Literary Festival 2011 – Chennai
I have been waiting for the Hindu’s Lit
For Life 2011 - Chennai – A literary festival spread over two
days i.e 29thOct and 30th Oct. Cancelled all my
activities for these 2 days and focussed on only one thing, to find out for
myself what the great writers are made of?
Second day of Hindu Literary Festival 2011 – Chennai: 2nd Day
of Hindu Literary Festival and the winner is ... It was a pleasure to see
a very talented and humble person and a new friend,Rahul Bhattacharyawinning ‘The
Hindu Literary Prize for Best Fiction 2011' for his lovely
book “The Sly Company of People Who Care”.
STILL
LIFE:
A place where I take
you with me to a journey through my impressions and pictures that I have had
taken...
I am sharing in this
post some powerful spiritual energy sources in India associated with Goddess
Durga and Laxmi, that has made a strong impression on me. Sharing also
some of my impressions of Diwali from past year... But before that, let me introduce
my friends from abroad to this important festival of light...
I have had met Renie Revin almost a year back at one of the
Social Media meet organised by another good friend. Renie's talk interested me
to get on to the IndiBlogger and
share thoughts with another passionate bloggers from across the world...
and last sunday, it was the first time I attended the blogger meet. It
was a great journey from being a individual blogger for personal satisfaction
to connecting with like minded people from all walks of life....
WHISPERS:
A section where I post my poetry, Haiku and verse’s about
love, life and living....
Some of my free form Haiku to begin with and then my
dedication to the powerful style of poetry reading by a great author Vikram
Seth, hope you would like it...
Some of my Haiku
about yearning and then a long verse ‘Wet and Sandy Beach’ on a subject that
some (including me) consider taboo...
It’s raining in Chennai and I
love rains... It brings me close to nature as well as it feels as if some
sadness is being released from my inner depths... so here I am with my thoughts
about it and some of my Haiku related to it....
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Shashi @ Nov 2011
ॐ नमः शिवाय
Om Namah Shivaya
