Lazy Goku

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think that the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth - Thich Nhat Hanh The Idea It was May, 2021. It was during the second year of pandemic as the world had been emerging out of the dark clutches of Corona virus. With the help of great researchers and vaccine programs, we started to observe the light of optimism at the end of a dark tunnel of despair. We can at last meet people we had not met in an year. Finally, we could gradually resume our life of social interactions, travel and entertainment.  Naveen and I were running errands in Bellevue. We decided to casually drop by at Krupal's apartment to hangout with Sahiti & Krupal. As it happened, Hari and Swathi were in the area furniture shopping for their new house. So, they joined us at the apartment. Since this was an impromptu meetup, Sharika couldn't join us. Whenever we friends meet, we talk about a divers...

How can we be free to look and learn when our minds from the moment we are born to the moment we die are shaped by a particular culture in the narrow pattern of the ‘me’? For centuries we have been conditioned by nationality, caste, class, tradition, religion, language, education, literature, art, custom, convention, propaganda of all kinds, economic pressure, the food we eat, the climate we live in, our family, our friends, our experiences, every influence you can think of, and therefore our responses to every problem are conditioned.  - Jiddu Kirshnamurti The Weekend Where It Started        I was 19. It's been a while since I visited Tirupati as I was sailing through the joys of undergrad life in Guntur. So, I thought, why not make a weekend visit to my birth town as Nani, my cousin, was also planning to visit from Bangalore. He's a busy guy as he was venturing into MBA and finding quality time with him was kind of a rare thing. So the weekend was a perfect ti...