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2023 - The Year That Was

Places impact you for a variety of reasons. And the same place impacts different people in different ways. This is especially true when it comes to spiritual experiences, where every single person’s experience is unique. And personally, every spiritual experience is unique, the same person can have different deeply spiritual experiences at different places, at different times. This thought has emerged because of my own experiences over the years, but especially so this year, with different and unique experiences at various places I have visited recently. I began this year with a visit to Baroda (Vadodara) with friends. It was meant to be a relaxed trip, a touristy trip, with our sons. We enjoyed ourselves to the hilt, but the highlight of that trip was a visit to the Lakulisha temple at Pavagadh. It was the iconography of the temple that I connected with, and I spent a few hours simply lost in the details of the figures carved around the temple. There was an indefinable connect with
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Look Who got his name (mis-spelled) in the paper!

Here is what we saw in the paper, the first thing this morning.....


To read the full article. click on the link below...
Wall of education attains greater heights

So, did you find the name? Hint: Its on the right side of the photo!

When we headed over to Phoenix Mills yesterday after a inter-school gymnastics tournament at Wadala, we had no idea it was going to be such a wonderful evening! We had taken along a few of our books to donate to the Aviva Great Wall of Education, which we had been reading about, and they turned the simple art of donating books to an event, taking photos of the people giving the books, making them feel wonderful! Here is Samhith placing his books on the wall...



The day was far from over, and we spent a wonderful hour at Hamleys, enjoying all the trains and cars, and coming back home with a Lego set we have been looking for, for the last one year!

But the best part of the evening was undoubtedly the storytelling session by Blue Fun  Umbrella, which Samhith joined shyly, but then go so engrossed that he forgot all about the candy he held in his hand!!! Then came the art session, where he coloured a paper with the figure 'One' on it.... the sheets with number one to ten were given to the kids who coloured and decorated them and returned them. The sheets are to be bound in sets, made into number books and given to young street children. Interesting idea, isnt it? 

Well, by the time we got back home, it was too late for anything but dinner and bed, but it was a memorable day indeed, and what better way to wake up in the morning than to see Samhith's name in the paper? Yes, his name is mis-spelled, but then that happens all the time! Even some of his school teachers still do that!!!
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  1. Shrinidhi HandeDecember 5, 2010 at 9:04 AM

    It's a good cause

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  2. NishaDecember 5, 2010 at 9:37 AM

    That is a noble cause. I am going there today. :)

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  3. Tarun MitraDecember 5, 2010 at 10:01 AM

    nice cause..only thing that when we did it, it didn't got any name or any sessions :)

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  4. Anuradha ShankarDecember 5, 2010 at 11:01 AM

    @Shrinidhi: Yes, it is a good cause... we anyway give away our books (mostly to make place for new ones) and this time, this just happened to come at the right time!

    @Nisha:have fun! there is a storytelling session today too!

    @Tarun: Absolutely true! we never had encouragement like this! and anyway, this is the first such public time for us.. otherwise we usually give our books to family/friends/ school libraries!

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  5. MridulaDecember 5, 2010 at 11:45 AM

    A lovely way to spend the day and I wish they got Samhith's name right.

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  6. SridharanDecember 5, 2010 at 12:51 PM

    Great..It is a nice idea to get children involved to inculcate our values.. Samhit looks cute... Isn't he...!

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  7. AartiDecember 5, 2010 at 1:20 PM

    cool stuff... :)

    Damn.. i have been wondering for years why journos and correspondents dont spend an extra second in noting down name right...

    i had my name misspelt in toi on a caferati related post.. when i wrote to the girl who'd done the article, she simply laughed and said sorry!! bah...idiots!!

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  8. ShilpaDecember 26, 2010 at 3:27 PM

    Thats a nice cause.. :)
    I was trying to find whose name was mis-spelled...finally got it .. :)

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