A friend recently wrote a lovely blog on Sleep. It brilliantly highlighted how parents - who have to contend with looking after kids, managing their jobs and juggling the many other balls up in the air at any given time - long for a few precious moments of uninterrupted sleep! Raising our kids in India …
Hope springs eternal
It has been (yet) another difficult week of trying to avoid “breaking news” from around the world. Investigative reporting appears to be a thing of the past. Instead, we have “fake” or manufactured news that is amplified and regurgitated through social media channels. Political correctness, or lack of it provides additional fodder to “journalists” who …
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Most of us love music. Some are more fortunate than others and can play an instrument or sing; I am good at neither. However, listening to music is my “mindless meditation”. From the time I start my day, whether out walking, cycling, driving or just sitting outside on the deck or in the front yard, …
Music … religion of humanity
I recently read “The Mysticism of Music, Sound and Word”, a collection of lectures by Hazrat Inayat Rehmat Khan, founder of Sufi Order in the West (London, England) and a teacher of Universal Sufism. In a passage from this book, Hazrat states: “The greatest error of this age is that activity has increased so much, …