My dear friends Vibha and Rajat Kejriwal have been creating some extremely beautiful silk embroidery for one of the foremost fashion designers in the world, Dries van Noten, for the past few years. So it was with great joy that they organised Dries’ first ever visit to Kolkata on Monday, and I happened to be […]

What does one TRILLION dollars look like? All this talk about “stimulus packages” and “bailouts”… A billion dollars… A hundred billion dollars… Eight hundred billion dollars… One TRILLION dollars… What does that look like? I mean, these various numbers are tossed around like so many doggie treats, so my friend Mr Chay Kok Keon from […]

My best friend, Sajid Insaf, lives in Kent with his wife Farida and son Aarish. After serving an illustrious short service commission in the Indian Army, he has set up an IT business in the UK. Sajid is one of the most upright, steadfast, sincere, compassionate and fun-loving human beings on this planet, and though […]

If I had to pick the greatest sickness in our country today, I wd unhesitatingly say “corruption.” Its so all-pervading, so fundamental, so much a part of everyday life that no one seems to want to address it anymore. And it escalates up the ladder; I recently learned the ‘rate list’ starting from a simple […]

This is an article that was commissioned a few months ago but doesn’t seem to have been published yet so I thought I’d share it with you right here 🙂 In the beginning was the Internet: and lo, it sprouted portals and more portals, and spun an ever-expanding Web, which grew to cover the earth, […]

The past few days I’ve been listening to music that I have loved since I was barely twelve years old. Somehow these songs have stayed with me through every twist and turn of my life, cropping up every now and then to remind and reassure me of their presence.  Yesterday, Rainbow’s ‘Temple of the king’ […]

Shobhaa De, whose blog I follow regularly, and whose spunky and youthful attitude I have always admired, happened to attend a satsang of mine on Sunday. I was really flattered that she blogged about it here as soon as she got home that night. It was really nice to meet her again after many years, […]

Flew into Mumbai for a day to do a concert in support of our school in Dharavi, which is Asia’s largest slum. Here are a couple of pics, one from soundcheck, and the other of the concert itself. It was my trio format, with Ajay on tablas and Mizo on guitar. It rocked 🙂

Time flies when you’re having fun — or when you’re really really busy — has it really been over two weeks? More? is it January already? I was at the Bangalore ashram for over two weeks, training a bunch of new teachers; its always a humbling experience, as being a teacher is less about imparting knowledge and all about […]

This lovely post on Bongs was not written by me (forgot to append this footnote) ; it was sent by a close friend. If someone knows who wrote it, I wd like to give credit where its due 🙂 Hope you enjoyed it! Love, Vikram Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device