Eyes With Fire Will See Light Everywhere

It took nearly three and half years to get the new tattoo inked on my body. This tattoo has a special significance to me as it represents me psychologically and emotionally. The inception of the idea of getting tattooed has begun when I met Aparna Sarepaka (alias Appy) who is an amazing artist (One of few best artists I have known till date) and was amazed by her designs and sketches. I asked her whether she could help me out in sketching myself for a tattoo. She agreed and asked me to fill a template about likes / dislikes and interests /disinterests. She actually sent me some designs but those are cluttered and needed some modifications. I requested her to do the same. Meanwhile she got busy with her exams and then with her life and the project went on HOLD.Then I worked independently looking lot of designs in different cultures and trying to match to my philosophy in life.Nothing got materialized. After sometime I met Tejaswi Damaraju , an architect with immense interest in des...

What I meant by the title is just reading is not enough; we have to live the principles in the book to experience superior life indicated in the books. I have read so many books in the last eight years but none touched my conscience as strongly as the following three books: Seven habits of highly effectively People Four Agreements Leadership and its self-deception Personally I feel the latter two books addresses the issues that the first one has not considered and keep one from not getting carried away. The latter two books show us the strong opposing residing within us for leading a superior life. I am not telling it would be easy to start living the principles suggested in the books. But we can give a try. While I was readings these books I encountered the ugliness within me and how there are lot of forces within me that are hindering me without allowing to lead a simpler and superior life. What I meant by superior life is to lead life in a way wher...

One of my architecture friends is fighting against all odds to make her own space and gain respect. One of my budding actor friends is pushing himself very hard to make big in the movie industry. The iron walla at the end of my street is working day and night in different jobs so that he can able to meet the needs of his family in this inflated world. One of my friend’s friend inspite of his disability does one thing or another in order to prove a single point  “ disability is not to the mind.” One of my friends who work in a night job travels to Hyderabad every weekend just to spend one day with his family and make them happy. One of my friends at work stretched himself every day from 7:30 PM to 12:00 am for the past three months to give a dance performance for 20-30 minutes. Lastly one of my friends who took the responsibility of his family (of 5) thinks, works and stresses himself very relentlessly to meet their needs and desires and neve...

The only thing that I had been doing constantly in the last one year apart from eating, sleeping and working is reading, reading and then again reading.  I read biographies, autobiographies, extreme philosophies, fiction, non-fiction, and interesting stories about history, politics, religion, economics, and sports. After digesting all the views, opinions, arguments now I cannot subscribe to any of the those ideas :P.  After the intense study I feel everybody’s point is correct and there is nothing like wrong or incorrect. Now a days I am not even arguing with anybody as there is no point because people are right in their own ways.  Realizing this made me lose the unnecessary burden I had in my head. The Point is not to abandon different views but to embrace them, as they are all part of the truth. When a white light (truth) passes through a prism it diverges into seven colors. The person looking through the one of the color thinks his/ her version of trut...

After almost working on a goal for 12 months I felt like taking a break and finally decided to visit Auroville for 3 days. After coming from Auroville many people asked me what is Auroville. It is very difficult to tell what is Auroville. Most people wont get it at the first place. Even I do not have a clear idea about it. One cannot categorize it because what is happening over there is some thing, which cannot be categorized and should not be categorized. One can only use analogy to explain Auroville  : If it  were a door, it would be a door opening onto another door which opens to another door, which then opens onto yet another door and each door is larger than the one before. Got it? If no please stay at Auroville and do not just visit it.   Coming back to  my experience, after  initial hiccups for finding accommodation we finally ended up at Youth camp, fortunately this is  one of the best place to stay for various reasons. Firstly t...

PS: The only way is always to move forward. PPS: This is my 100th Post :) 

Being marriages season coincided with valentine’s eve most of the people at office took leave, the population is very meager. I asked one of my colleagues for lunch outside the office. He agreed. Initially we thought of going to any near by dhaba but due to my colleague mood swings we ended up at the “Dialogue in the Dark”, the darkest restaurant in the city.  I initially thought it would be any other restaurant but when we opened the doors I was surprised. It was decorated completely with heart shaped red balloons and bunch of packed gifts on the desk , the staff taking the pictures of the couples who came into and in short  it was in the festive mood of  valentine’s day. The staff are expecting couples. We were the ODD Couple out there.  Obviously we did not receive any special attention from the staff thus got saved from their artificial social niceties or they say customer experience. We waited for our turn to pay the bill. Yes you heard it right. We need t...