As an ardent lover of Krishna and a fan of the sophisticated epic Mahabharata and its seminal core, The Bhagvad Gita, I’d spent most of my life dismissing the Ramayana as a decidedly lesser thing. Not only did it appear primitive in comparison, but it was also disturbing that its vacillating male God falls prey to his people’s [...]
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Sita’s True Fire Test
Posted in consciousness, culture, literature, love, spirituality, transculturalism, women's issues, tagged ACT Seattle, Bollywood, Rama, Ramayana, Shah Rukh Khan, Sita, Swades on February 14, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Courageous Creativity
Posted in career, creativity, entrepreneurship, inspiration, literature, transculturalism, tagged Courageous Creativity, creativity, transculturalism, writing platform on July 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I have come to believe that creative expression is the source of healing, empowerment and transformation. Because creativity at its best involves personal / emotional risk – i.e. courage, it always causes change inside oneself. And inevitably, it also causes change outside oneself - in the world - however tiny the impact may be. In my journey in the last 2 years, I was fortunate to recognize [...]
Activate thy Verbs!
Posted in culture, humor, language, literature, transculturalism, tagged Life is a Verb, Patty Digh on December 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
When I first moved to America nearly 13 years ago, I arrived with a formidable fluency in the Queen’s English peppered with occasional indulgences in the flavors of Ind-lish. Although I didn’t end my sentences with only for emphasis and knew that prepone was (then) a figment of the Indian imagination (or creativity), I did have to be [...]
