Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax

People worry quite a bit about social media and its effects upon society, their children and so on, but I must admit that in the limited and...

Idly, the other day, I asked Grok for a poem on nature. Whether dear Mary Oliver is the go-to on such subjects or if the omniscient Internet...

A very long time since I wrote on this blog… I’ve outgrown it perhaps. But the beautiful Mary Oliver resonated once again with me and where ...

We made an early start from Kanchipuram to head to Chidrambaram. We were making a small detour to stop at two places en route – Pondy (to co...

I have not been able to figure out a more precise pattern. But it is always early morning, before dawn and always a Sunday. A group of p...

Isn’t it so amazing that for a temple town with over a thousand temples, there is only one to a feminine deity? Just the one for the lady Ka...