Garden Meditation Day! –Satyavani Kakarla Thanks to the New age movement that although most of us have become too familiar with the word meditation, the most commonly and ignorantly used term, it still remains an enigma, a paradox… Going to the etymology of the word ‘meditation’, it derives from the Latin root meditatum, meaning to […]
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Diary of a New Age Girl Chapter 2 – Silly Bandz and Silly Children –Varudhini When you’re a child, you feel the strong desire to be like “other kids”, who seem to have everything you don’t. You want all the new toys, video games, and books, and you think that you are the only one […]
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Fabric of Life -Satyavani Kakarla It’s the story of two kind hearts, my dearest and my beloved, Amma (my mother) and husband… “Stories are how we think. They are how we make meaning of life. Call them schemas, scripts, cognitive maps, mental models, metaphors, or narratives. Stories are how we explain how things work, […]
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Cineflections –Manjula Jonnalagadda “Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand” – Somerset Maugham in Moon & Six Pence Good cinema is a work of art that takes you on an emotional journey no matter what language it is in. It can amuse you, and/or make you […]
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Diary of a New Age Girl Chapter 1 – The Beginning –Varudhini I don’t remember much of my early childhood. Much of what happened in the first few years of my life was told to me by my mother when she would reminisce about the past. But I can recall bits and pieces, short memories […]
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Diary of a New Age Girl -Varudhini There are many things that make us distinct from one another. Our skin color, eye color, body type – every tiny variation in our genes. But there are some things that are not measurable or quantifiable, like a person’s ideas or their status in society. I think that […]
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