The Accidental Sufi

The Case Of Two “Thappad” S

#bollywood #taapseepannu #anubhavsinha #entertainment #movies #review

  ( Disclaimer: This is not a comparison in whatever form of the two movies,please)

  Once again, the film going and loving junta in India ,are talking about a ‘thappad’ ( slap on the face). The last time it happened was with the release of ‘Dabbang’ in 2010. A gloriously gorgeous( and typically Indian male fantasy)Sonakshi…

Five Hidden Messages in “Four More Shots, please”

#amazonprimevideoIn #fourmoreshotsplease #pritishnandycommunications #entertainment

  Let’s start with the verdict since we in India are so quick to judge : WATCH THE SERIES

  I actually binge watched both the seasons together recently after getting emphatic recommendations from a friend. To be honest, I liked the first season more as I feel it’s more edgy and brilliant. By the time , I reached…

#cooking #omelette #JNU #memories

 The other day I was reading an article in ‘The New Yorker’. It was called “ Mastering the Art of Making a French Omelette’ by Bill Buford. A delightful piece of writing, it proves what I firmly believe in : that cooking is a highly creative idea and process.So when women ( mainly) either complain about  the drudgery of cooking or consider it fashionably feminist…

    A week back the CCTV guys came to install the rather smart looking ( read:bloody expensive) surveillance system in my house.My K9 hooligan gang, consisting of six Great Danes, one each of Boxer, Labrador, Daschund, Pug ,are quite enough to deter and maim any hapless intruder–plus, they are aided by the ever growing desi community dogs who I feed and take care of.Yet,my well to do and highly…

And the music hits me…

https://youtu.be/iO_WxYC34eM

Their sound slices through my brain like a sonic scalpel!

Whoa! Bravo! Absolute brilliance!

Discovered accidentally while I was net surfing.

The edginess reminds me of David Bowie.

There is this rush of adrenalin pushing me into an alien world.

It’s heady, charged, spinning into the dark uknown.

Euphoria.

Ecstasy.

It’s beautiful.

Salute, Imagine Dragons!

#newagerock…

Sometimes you find inspiration from unexpected sources.

Here is a little plant & flower which blooms in a wall of stone & concrete.

When I reached my house this afternoon ( that’s the outside boundary wall of the house), my man Friday was all set to uproot the plant and repair the breach in the wall.

I stopped him.

The plant and me looked at each other and smiled.

Kindred spirits, you might…

There are times when I smile at the contents of a “Whatsapp”. Not laugh or feel amused at a witty forward.But genuinely smile and rejoice…from the bottom of my heart.

One such instance was a recent conversation between my friend Geetanjali. She is my childhood buddy.But we haven’t met since the last twenty  years. In school, I remember her being my comrade in every possible scrape that would…

“My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless ; ‘Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved. I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one; One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call”- Rumi

( The Ecstatic World of Rumi, Hafiz & Lalla)

Happy Birthday, Pablo Neruda.

I read you to know and understand :

Beauty

Tenderness

Love

Passion

Loss

Grief

That infinite, unfathomable ache…but spring came.

#poetry #pabloneruda

That’s my Pied Piper…

I am not really a hardcore Syd snob.But if there is/was one man I can call ” Beautiful “, it’s him definitely. That’s what I am thinking as I currently watch Justin Trudeau live on Instagram —swinging it pretty deliciously in a white Fedora in Calgary 😍 Oh by the way, hands up if you listened to Piper yesterday /last night.And if you haven’t got/aren’t getting the reference ,then may you…

Little Gestures…

Sometime back, the pretty young girl in the picture, helped me at the bank.She went out of her way to do so. My time, energy and most importantly my convenience benefitted. I was touched by her positivity and couldn’t help wonder why most of us go about life everyday ,thinking about doing great things and forget about little gestures.

I sent a little handwritten note of thanks to her with a…

You do not lose love…

Blogging after a long, long break…a personal tragedy where I lost my beloved Daddy suddenly & heartbreakingly… life had stopped…it begins again… with the poetry of love & loss… and the realisation that when you love deeply, loss cannot touch you… the impermanence of permanence and the permanence of impermanence.

“If I never see you again I will always carry you inside outside

on my fingertips and at…