My experiences with idiot box

Last few days I had some free time...I was thoroughly board and alone at home and didn't feel like doing any house work or anything else....so watched some pakistani dramas on youtube (ofcourse by fast Forwording)....now I am feeling like my mind is filled with garbage....I am irritated with myself for wasting my time....I don't even want to look at the idiot box anymore.
Some conclusions from this experience:-

1. Whoever has  given this name idiot box to tv, is the most sane person.

2. I am glad we don't have cable and it's best for family.

3. Every day I can spend more time with my girls after they come back from school because our television does not have the cable virus.

3. Books are always a better choice then watching anything.

4. Any hobby makes you refreshed and spending time infront of screen makes you tired.

5. Sleeping can be a better option if you don't want to do anything else.

6. If used wisely and in moderation internet is better than brain less TV shows.

Books I read in December

Chennaites went through a very different and difficult phase this December. Rains and floods that broke all the records of last century has effected everybody's life in some or the other way. We had to go to Bangalore and we didn't have anything to do there so I tried to use this time in reading. Here are the books I read this month:

Many lives many masters by Brian L. Weiss

Chinese cinderella by Adeline yen mah

Falling leaves by Adeline yen mah

Time traveler's wife by audrey niffenegger

Her fearful symmetry by audrey niffenegger

The magic of the lost temple by sudha murty

बेबाक   -   कंचन पंत

तीन रोज़ इश्क   -    पूजा उपाध्याय

धूप के आईने में    -    किशोर चौधरी

पुखराज     -    गुलज़ार

मनीषा कुलश्रेष्ठ की कहानियां हिंदी नेस्ट पर

Meditation for world peace

Everybody is talking about terrorism today - it might be attacks in
Paris or in Afghanistan, or bomb blasts in our own country. We all
are talking about it. Kids are also so scared of listening to these
stories and their little minds are not able to understand any of it.Even we are not able to understand the mentality behind it. We are
living in the world of negativity, and we are not able to do anythingabout it. We feel so helpless and justify to our selves that its not our fault and we are not part of it. But are we not part of it? If we are part of this
whole universe are we not part of this negativity too? Isn't it our
responsibility to do something about it? Yes, just talking and feeling
sad is not enough - we can do something about it. But you must be wondering whatcan we do as an individual? Do you know the power of prayer? The power
of meditation? The power of positive thoughts? I have heard a story
about a certain tribe in India, where if they have to remove a tree theydon't cut it, they just gather around it every day and curse that
tree, and in a few days of time that tree falls off by itself. Such is the
power of thoughts.

I feel we all can do our part by having positive thoughts, doing
any kind of meditation, doing prayer for the humanity. This feels verysmall thing to do, but doing something is better than doing nothing. I am
following the system of Sahaj Marg Meditation for the last 16 years,
and the feeling is beyond explanation. This can be only experienced.
Now our present guide Shri Kamlesh D Patel has started this heartulness
movement, where everybody can experience the depths of meditation.
From today until the 25th of December, please meditatewith hundreds of thousands of us all over the world, daily, preferably at 6:30am or any other time during the day, from home or office, using the following simple steps:* Sit comfortably with your eyes closed. Let your whole body be relaxed.
* Gently focus on your heart.* Start with the suggestion that source of divine light is in your heart.
* Pray that transmission is being received and is pulling your
attention inward towards the heart.* Meditate for 20 - 30 minutes.

If you want to learn more about this meditation please let me know or

visit www.heartfulness.org

Reading fever....

I am into reading phase (or to be precise reading fever)  these days....just reading anything.... some books that i read before and now after rereading finding them more interesting....or something totally new and random and falling in love with it.....am just reading and reading and discovering myself and this world....

Some books i read in last month.

Surangama by shivani
Kore kaagaz by amrita preetam
Joothan by omprakaash valmiki
Raseedi ticket by amrita preetam

Shiva trilogy by amish
Hunger games trilogy by Suzanne collins
Fault in our stars by john green
the one you cannot have by peeti Shenoy
My sister's keeper by jodi picoult
Jaya and sita by devdutt patnaik

Reality at dawn by Ram Chandra.

And many more to read

Don't lose your mind lose your weight!

Yes! Guessed right. Its Rujuta Diwekar's book. I didn't know anything about her (that she is kareena kapoor's nutritionist as I don't have any interest in film stars life) until one of my friend gave this book to me to read. And  after starting it I couldn't stop until I finished and now I am writing about it. Usually I read only fiction or literature but this book is really something.

I had given up all hopes of losing weight as I have PCOS. I accepted this truth that I wont be able to become thin again. I was eating healthy and less in quantity and I was happy that at least  am not gaining weight. I didn't know what wrong I was doing until today. Now after reading this book it seems so simple. I have started following her principles as already my lifestyle is healthy. I know I will be healthy and am feeling happy about it and if I lose some weight on the run it will be a bonus.

This book is a must read for all who want to lead a healthy life and don't know what to eat and when to eat.

The English Teacher --R. K. Narayan

I always go through phases in my life. Sometime I like to do loads of crafts and sometimes its sewing, Sometime I can watch just any movie in a row and this will go on for a week or so, or sometime I will just clean up the house and give all the room a entire new look. And there are days when I will cook everyday a new dish  but in all these of my hobbies, reading is my all time favorite. And these days I am going through reading phase. I am enjoying every bit of it. This time I have decided that I will write something about every book I read. It wont be exectly a book review but my opinion and feelings about that perticuler book.

Yesterday I borrowed R. K. Narayan's "The English Teacher" from a friend's place. In my childhood I used to watch this TV show "Malgudi Days" ( tana... na.. tana... na....tune still echos in my mind whenever I hear Malgudi )and always wanted to read  R. K. Narayan's work. In the evening I started reading it and I was just hooked to it. In between I was doing the house chores also. Hubby was watching cricket (as usual) and I was totally engrossed in the book. 


The story starts in a very simple manner...writing style is simple but elegant, In just two or three pages you become attached to the character and you feel you know them. Krishnan who is a  English lecturer at the Albert Mission College is living in the hostel. In the first page itself we get to know that he thinks he is doing the wrong job. He is a poet at heart. his bachelor life comes to an end as his wife Susila and daughter comes to live with them. He rents a beautiful house and lives a good family life in next few chapters. His love is so deep and subtle towards his wife. When his wife suffers from typhoid he takes care of her in all his means. After the death of his wife his life becomes empty but he see his only relief in his child It becomes his aim in life to see that she would not feel the absence of her mother.

Later he receive a letter from a stranger that his wife wants to communicate with him. That man becomes his friend and medium to talk to his wife.   I will not go into the full story line but when  I was reading the last few chapters my mind was wandering around thousand questions. What happens after death? This communication with the person who is already departed..is it possible? 
I will quote the last para graph here:

A cock crew. The first purple of the dawn came through our window, and faintly touched the walls of our room. "Dawn!"

she whispered and rose to her feet.

   We stood at the window, gazing on a slender, red streak over the eastern rim of the earth. A cool breeze lapped our faces. The boundaries of our personalities suddenly dissolved. It was a moment of rare, immutable joy- a moment for which one feels grateful to Life and Death.

It was really a good book. May be will read it again after a year or so.(I like to read a book again and again as every time I read a book it brings a new meaning.)