Beloo Mehra's Blog, page 20
May 19, 2015
एक दिन ऐसा भी...A Day Like This
Photo by Monica Denevan, Sourceकभी कभी जब घर बाहर सब बेतरतीब सा बिखरा-बिखरा हो, दिल-ओ-दिमाग भी कुछ विचलित सा हो, मन किसी काम में न लग पाए, और तब एक ऐसी कविता आप के सामने आ जाए तो शुकरगुज़ारी का एक बहुत पयारा एहसास होता है। आज कुछ ऐसा ही दिन है।
बाकी बात सब बाद में, पहले कविता का आनंद लें....
जीवन-यान
रचनाकार: सुमितरानंदन पंत (जनम - मई )
अहे विशव! ऐ विशव-वयथित-मन!
किधर बह रहा है यह जीवन?
यह लघु-पोत, पात, तृण, रज-कण,
असथिर-भीरु-वितान,
किधर?--किस ओर?--अछोर,--अजान,
डोलता है यह दुरबल-यान?
मूक-बुदब...
May 12, 2015
Unearthing the Road: A Photo Essay
A new post in the series -
When a Picture Leads
(Or in this case, when a dozen pictures lead...)
I was browsing through the old files and pictures on my computer organising and cleaning up, when some particular pictures from a trip to Ellora Caves three years ago caught my attention.
These pictures started to speak of a little story. A story of discovery. Finding a path, leading to a way, unearthing of a road. Road to another discovery, another search, another seeking.
All outer journ...
(Or in this case, when a dozen pictures lead...)
I was browsing through the old files and pictures on my computer organising and cleaning up, when some particular pictures from a trip to Ellora Caves three years ago caught my attention.
These pictures started to speak of a little story. A story of discovery. Finding a path, leading to a way, unearthing of a road. Road to another discovery, another search, another seeking.
All outer journ...
May 4, 2015
Current Events 10: Jaundiced Journalism (Guest Post - Chitra Raman)
A new post in the series - Current Events
Much is being said and written about media these days -- Indian media, world media, print media, broadcast media, social media, all media. The line between news and views has almost eroded, as many in the field of media studies have repeatedly said. Consumers of news are increasingly expressing suspicion, distrust and even anger toward the media.
Since venting out frustration when reading a newspaper or watching TV news at home doesn't...
Much is being said and written about media these days -- Indian media, world media, print media, broadcast media, social media, all media. The line between news and views has almost eroded, as many in the field of media studies have repeatedly said. Consumers of news are increasingly expressing suspicion, distrust and even anger toward the media.
Since venting out frustration when reading a newspaper or watching TV news at home doesn't...
May 2, 2015
The Thinking Indian - What is it About?
That's the title of my new e-book, to be shortly released. With this e-book, we commence our self-publishing work at
matriwords
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The full title reads:
THE THINKING INDIAN Essays on Indian Socio-Cultural Matters in the Light of Sri Aurobindo
When you read the Prelude and Introduction to the book, you will know why this title makes sense.
Here is a short description of the book:
The full title reads:
THE THINKING INDIAN Essays on Indian Socio-Cultural Matters in the Light of Sri Aurobindo
When you read the Prelude and Introduction to the book, you will know why this title makes sense.
Here is a short description of the book:
"This book invites all those concerned with India's future as a nation and as a civilisation to star...
April 27, 2015
Current Events 9: Poverty is Not Romantic
A new post in the series -
Current Events
A strange political drama is unfolding in India these days. Opposition to most of the proposals put forth by the current government is happening not because of any substantive merit but simply because the opposition's role is to oppose. Controversies are being created, simply to derail any effort to initiate and put together any developmental projects that may have some potential to alleviate mass poverty in rural areas.
Speeches after speeches, hyperb...
A strange political drama is unfolding in India these days. Opposition to most of the proposals put forth by the current government is happening not because of any substantive merit but simply because the opposition's role is to oppose. Controversies are being created, simply to derail any effort to initiate and put together any developmental projects that may have some potential to alleviate mass poverty in rural areas.
Speeches after speeches, hyperb...
April 20, 2015
Engineer, Doctor, MBA, CA – Choose One; NOTA Not an Option
Sometime ago, fellow blogger and friend Shailaja, the Doting Mom and the Bite-sized story-weaver asked me if I would be willing to write a guest post for her super-famous blog on parenting. She suggested that I write something on Education. Of course, I said yes. How could I let go of an opportunity to write on a topic that is close to my heart? And also for a blog read mostly by parents, the perfect audience.
Thank you, Shailaja for the opportunity to write for your blog.
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Thank you, Shailaja for the opportunity to write for your blog.
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April 13, 2015
Being Two, and in Other News
Baisakhi, April 14, 2013 was when it started. On this day that marks the beginning of the New Year in the traditional Hindu Solar Calendar, celebrated under different names in different parts of India, this blog took its form with a simple beginning.
Two years, 240 posts later, I am still figuring out, sometimes struggling with, how to express the ideal which led me to start this blog. In this process I have realised that instead of figuring out what the blog really wants...
Two years, 240 posts later, I am still figuring out, sometimes struggling with, how to express the ideal which led me to start this blog. In this process I have realised that instead of figuring out what the blog really wants...
April 10, 2015
Managing the Noises
A new post in the series -
Reminders to self
Always good to start with examples.
1. A wanna-be-in-news-for-a-day politican makes a comment about the slavish mentality of a political party, by giving an example that in all honesty is not far from one of the many uncomfortable truths of our larger society. Now he is not one of the usual English-speaking types that the elite sections of our mass media and their followers seem to endorse, so he ends up blurting out his thing in a somewhat crude or...
Always good to start with examples.
1. A wanna-be-in-news-for-a-day politican makes a comment about the slavish mentality of a political party, by giving an example that in all honesty is not far from one of the many uncomfortable truths of our larger society. Now he is not one of the usual English-speaking types that the elite sections of our mass media and their followers seem to endorse, so he ends up blurting out his thing in a somewhat crude or...
April 3, 2015
Storytime 2: Choose Wisely
There is a lot of talk these days about Choice. My Choice. Your Choice. Everyone's Choice. The assumption is that having absolute freedom to make one's choices is all one needs to be an individual, to be oneself, to feel empowered. And that any attempt to curb any such Freedom to Choose is regressive, narrow-minded and therefore a complete no-no.
Not surprisingly, in today's age driven mainly by an economic view of life and excessive-consumerism such campaigns on Choices and Empowerment are of...
March 28, 2015
Learning through Films
Anyone who knows me knows that I am always interested in a good film, a good show. Of course,
'good' is a subjective term. But so are a whole lot of other things related to our lives, our interests and our learnings in life.
Over the last six months or so, we have spent many evenings at home watching a few good movies and some fascinating serialised shows. Some of these were mostly after-dinner entertainment (political thrillers or legal dramas), but some of these also served an interesting inf...
