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- Love for Imperfect Things
How to accept yourself in a world striving for imperfection I picked up this lovely slim volume from the library last week, and read through it in a day. Written by a Korean Buddhist monk, it has all the gentleness one might associate with Buddhism, and some lively illustrations too.… Read more: Love for Imperfect Things - Namami Shamishan
The most unlikely of hymns has become my background score; I am listening to it all the time, on repeat. I first heard it a few weeks ago in a cab in Chandigarh, as I was returning from a short holiday amidst the beautiful Himalayan ranges overlooking the Solang valley,… Read more: Namami Shamishan - Yours Affectionately
After I wrote Papa Yaar yesterday, I felt the post was so woefully inadequate in capturing the extraordinariness of Appa or even his ordinariness for that matter. Also, I barely touched upon the ebb and flow of our evolving relationship over four decades. I guess no amount of writing will… Read more: Yours Affectionately - Papa Yaar
Just finished watching this show by Zakir Khan streaming on Netflix: At once hilarious, heartwarming and tear-jerking, each line of this show resonates with your own childhood experience and relationship with your father. With great wit and insight, Zakir Khan manages to capture universal truths about (Indian) fathers through the… Read more: Papa Yaar - The Midnight Library
Another book suggested by a friend. A novel this time. As usual, spoilers ahead. The story is simple: an unhappy young woman tries to end her life and finds herself in an in-between space — not quite alive or dead. She is in a library of infinite books, and her… Read more: The Midnight Library