I am a woman, a writer. I live in New Delhi, India. I look around myself, I observe, I think. I ask questions. I don’t claim to know any answers, but I would like to quest for them by examining different perspectives, imagining, thinking creatively, positively, warmly, hopefully.
I see my country in a state of tremendous transformation. I also see how some things, like mindsets and attitudes, have not changed. Prosperity has come to many, but there is still a vast, silent majority that barely manages to get by.
I embrace the dance of change and its inevitability. I would also like to keep a connection with the deep roots of this culture, its amazing wisdom, its sciences of body, mind and spirit. This blog will thus be a mix of the old and the new, and will attempt to find ways of creating a positive response to the conundrum of the present.
Some of the stuff I write here may be political. I don’t carry any political affiliations apart from my wish to see justice done, and the humanitarian values of equality, kindness and compassion honoured. I must say I have tremendous faith in people, even when they might appear to be angry or bigoted or generally negative. All of us have an equal potential towards growth and positive transformation, and it is this potential that I salute in each one of us.
As our ancient Indian greeting says, ‘Namaskar’ — I bow to that part of you which is eternal and indestructible, which is beyond the afflictions of this world.
To everybody, then, my namaskar!
