Pic shot by Tina! I was working on some soundtrack I think….

Just yesterday a student of mine was quite agitated about the fact that we caution people not to teach the techniques that they learned on our course to others, unless they have been properly trained to do so. According to him, techniques like pranayama can be taught by anyone, even after a single class. I […]

Sorry; the QnA’s are pending, but I hv been one-handed the past few days — one of my infrequent bouts of tendinitis, caused by a combination of playing guitar without warming up, sudden changes of weather, and excessive moisture in the air. I’m driving fm Khatima (Uttarakhand, near the Nepal border) to Delhi, nearly 7 […]

Have spent a wonderful week catching up with close family. One of my courses got rescheduled, so I suddenly had an entire week off, which coincided with Raksha Bandhan, my sister’s birthday as well as my dad’s b’day. Rakhi was spent with Tina’s clan; her brother, sister and parents came over for lunch and she […]

Over the past 5 months you all have sent in some wonderful questions. I apologize for not having answered them earlier. Have sat down to compose not one, but three sets of QnA which will appear over the next three days. I now feel that QnA can and ought to be a vital part of […]

(This is an old post that I scribbled on a piece of paper during a flight; found the paper in my bag yesterday!) A word from the skies over Mumbai: 7:10amWe took off for Hyderabad in a westerly direction this morning, which meant that we flew over the entire stretch from Dadar to the Gateway […]

…a lot lately; even more than usual. For over 20 years, I used to read at least 200 pages a day (600 on weekends) outside of my curricular reading. I literally swallowed a novel every two hours! When I did my first AOL course back in 1994, it gave me the tools to introspect with […]

Guess what! It was a loyal fan, trying to set up a Facebook fan page, who accidentally set up a page in my name instead 🙂 Anyway, he has promptly emailed me, so we shd hv the whole thing sorted out in a day or two. Thanks S, yu actually did everyone a favour coz […]