Some Photos of the event - 'Yamini'

Author : diya      Blog : musings      Date : 1/27/2013 5:29:00 AM

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All Night Magic With Dance and Music

Author : diya      Blog : musings      Date : 1/26/2013 6:21:00 PM

'Attended the SPIC MACAY cultural fest 'Yamini' at IIM B last evening, it was soulful, surreal and utterly mesmerising as performer after performer kept us glued to our seats (rather mattress) and evening turned into early morning without us being aware of the passage of time. I must thank my nephew A, for telling us about this event. The Mr and I arrived bright and early in the venue a bright moon was in the sky and the place was nearly empty. Huge mattresses were placed in front of(...)'

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A Memorable and Eventful Day in Ooty....

Author : diya      Blog : musings      Date : 4/26/2012 11:31:00 AM

'After the two adventurous days in Coonoor, we started planning for the optimum utilisation of our last day at Ooty before boarding the night bus back to Bangalore from there. The Brat Girl had treated herself to one of those green mangoes from one of the makeshift stalls at Lamb's rock with lots of the red masala on it and was paying the price by having to frequent the toilet at regular short intervals! She also managed to throw up the light dinner of bread and butter. We thought th(...)'

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Hilly Sojourn: Coonoor- Ooty

Author : diya      Blog : musings      Date : 4/20/2012 11:35:00 AM

'The Mr and I had last undertaken a family trip almost a year ago! We were getting a bit restless as a rest, so we planned a quick trip to the nearest hill station- Ooty and its nearest satellite town Coonoor. Now, we had heard and read about all sorts of negative stuff about Ooty, that it was too congested, that the filmwallas had made the place too commercialised etc etc. therefore our plan was to hit the more serene Coonoor as soon as we could. We took the night bus from Bangalore(...)'

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Child Sexual Abuse Is the Most Henious Kind of Human Rights Violation!

Author : diya      Blog : musings      Date : 3/22/2012 4:13:00 AM

'As parents, as mothers, there ia constant fear for our children in this regard. Stats show that the abuser, nine times out of ten, is Known Person, a person in a position of trust and responsibility. The 'do not talk to strangers' dictum may not work every time. Instead of quaking in our shoes and praying that our children do not go through such ordeals, we should try to understand the phenomenon and learn from the mistakes and sufferings of others. We must learn and teach our kids (...)'

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Celebrating Myself

Author : diya      Blog : musings      Date : 3/5/2012 11:07:00 AM

'I remember, very early in life, during a moral science class, we were told how important it is to be 'humble' and 'modest'. "Whatever your achievements be, you should always be 'umble", said the teacher wisely. This was ofcourse a convent school dedicated to the purpose of producing 'young ladies' who'd hold the social fabric of the outside world together with their humble and modest persuits. In today's world, these virtues are tantamout to committing harakiri, both in your prefess(...)'

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The Joy of Lurking

Author : diya      Blog : musings      Date : 3/1/2012 5:30:00 AM

'After many months, or has it been a year? I engaged in my one time favourite past time- lurking amongst blog posts on the reading list in my dashboard!! Its highly fulfilling and rewarding learning of the travails and goof ups of moms, insanely busy, magically creative or highly informative adventures of others....am happy and hopeful once more....'

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All Little Dreams Matter!

Author : diya      Blog : musings      Date : 2/29/2012 8:51:00 AM

'When we discover that our little moppets are good at anything, be it music, dance or drawing, we rush about as if our tail's on fire, trying to find a suitable teacher/class to train 'em. Thus begins the endless journey of moms to and from art, music and dance classes with their bewildered wards in tow! So frenzied is the desire to give wings to their fledgeling 'dreams' that we sometimes put extra pressure upon their shoulders to realise these 'dreams'. We drive them to these class(...)'

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I have a Bit of Namma Bengaluru in Me

Author : diya      Blog : musings      Date : 2/16/2012 4:29:00 AM

'The other day I finally applied for a voter's ID card in Bangalore. I already have a passport issued from here, a pan card with my Bangalore address, a bank account nearby and a child with an unmistakable Kannada accent! Bangalore is the city in which I first set up home independently with the Mr, and miracle of miracles, we managed to do so successfully inspite of the utter confusion of our erractic routines and schedule changes. Bangalore is where my one year old mite grew up to b(...)'

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Where The Mind is Without Fear.....

Author : diya      Blog : musings      Date : 2/13/2012 10:15:00 AM

'This poem, by Tagore always constricted my throat and brought tears to my eyes...now it has become the anthem of a unique movement initiated through twitter and facebook called #Flashreads for free speech, if you happen near Cubbon park tomorrow around 3pm then you can even participate in it Bangaloreans-----Where the mind is without fearWhere the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is freeWhere the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow dom(...)'

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Hey Blog! Can you hear me?

Author : diya      Blog : musings      Date : 1/15/2012 6:56:00 AM

'For ages I have been unable to post anything on this blog, just checking whether it is still alive!'

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Bombay-Baroda trip

Author : diya      Blog : musings      Date : 10/9/2011 7:15:00 AM

'We spent this Durga Puja in Mumbai and Baroda, had a lot of fun. visited plush pandals, relished delicious food...'

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