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Around Rakshabandhan-2025

Around Rakshabandhan 2025 had some interesting conversations and connection with family members in different parts of the world. Sharing a painting and poem from Jyoti, Lucknow, on this day. We go back a long way, sharing family histories and being … Continue reading

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Rathburn Road Midnight Walk: Beginnings and Ends

“It is easy to see the beginning of things, and hard to see the ends” Joan Didion Hegel (1835-38) speaks of “the conflict between the poetry of the heart and the opposing prose of circumstances and accidents of external situations” … Continue reading

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The Past is beautiful

The past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions About the present, only about the past                                                 Virginia Woolf Around my birthday, this year, I reflected … Continue reading

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