A woman announces to her friend that she is getting married for the fourth time. “How wonderful! But I hope you don’t mind me asking what happened to your first husband?” “He ate poisonous mushrooms and died.” “Oh, how tragic! What about your second husband?” “He ate poisonous mushrooms too and died.” “Oh, how terrible! […]

Do write in. Any guesses as to what my comfort food might be? There are two correct answers, and luckily for me Tina can now cook both brilliantly — I’m set for life! 🙂 Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

Sorry Bawa (and gang) Have been setting up my now-new G4 12″ Powerbook the past few days, and believe me it’s the coolest thing ever. One of the best laptops Apple ever made, these are rare to find; I was lucky to snag a refurbished piece online in excellent shape. I’ve always been partial to […]

Thought you might enjoy this view of the meditation hall in the B’lore Ashram; named after Guruji’s late mother, it’s called the Vishalakshi Mantap.

I’m at the ashram this week, teaching ttc. Thanks for all your questions, will compile a q-n-a and post it next week. JGD Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

Love this word. The Japanese have a very highly evolved aesthetic sense, and over generations have perfected the art of the unsaid, preferring to make their communication subtle, which often seems cryptic or even evasive to the uninitiated : Many of you have posted excellent explanations of this word (see Comments below the post on […]

Well….Bawa and Dinesh were at my place y’day for one of Tina’s awesome lunches, and afterwards we were messing about with html (basically Bau showing off how much he has learned in recent times!); hence the new look for this blog. There were some who felt it used to be too stark and empty looking […]

Many many years ago, a few thousand to be precise, in a beautiful hermitage in the middle of the forest, lived a learned Guru. We will leave speculation about his name and the exact time to the historians, and focus instead on the knowledge he gave us. Among his many talented disciples, perhaps the most […]

Wrote this in DNA Mumbai’s anniversary issue yesterday The Guru Cool Factor “Pilates with a personal trainer? Oh you can’t be serious — that is so last year!” This week the swish set is into flaunting spiritual gurus as arm candy; not for them the role of a devout acolyte or a gushing spectator at […]