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The Temple of Man

A couple of month's back I was reading Jung's 'Man and his symbol ' and a cousin visited me from Seattle and he had picked up the same book from the US and was reading it at that very moment.. Jung Synchronicity I suppose!! We later started discussing and found another author 'Lubicz' who had spent a considerable time researching on the symbols and Ancient Egyptian Anthropocosmos Man and his temple. Some incidents in the past week took me back to the books and I found these interesting videos on the same subject today.. Watch on .. 2nd part here

The pleasure of finding out things

THE PLEASURE OF FINDING THINGS OUT was filmed in 1981 and any Feynman follower :) if I may so ,would simply love to hear him speak about the joy of discovery . Rest of the videos here: part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 part 5 Talks on light

Quizás, Quizás, Quizás

Thanks to a friend's recommendation , watched a wonderful film by Wong Kar-Wai's ' In the mood for love' . Loved every bit of the film , a movie that shouldn't be given a miss !! Was a bit surprised to see the use of Spanish songs in a Cantonese film but loved every bit of it. Here's one of my favourite, Nat King Cole's ' 'Quizás, Quizás, Quizás' ( Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps ) And the lyrics here

Travels around the North East

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Written a bit late( thanks to tons of work) , but nevertheless!! Last month I headed for a break to the north eastern parts of our country and yeah this time it wasn't my usual solo backpacking trip, but one with my mum. The last trip I had done with her was to Sri Lanka in 2005. It was my first trip to Assam and Meghalaya , though for my mum it was her 3rd visit since my dad was posted in the NE more than a decade back.I was busy with studies/work and never made it to the NE. The first place I wanted to visit when the thought of NE struck me was Arunachal Pradesh but with my mum having high altitude sickness I decided to do Assam and Meghalaya only and leave the Arunachal bit for my solo travels. North East is still quite green but from the people who have been living there and from what I read , it's already lost 50% of the green cover in the last 20 years. Quite a few reasons behind it the main of course being human encroachment. I found random constructions happening aroun...

Floating around the Brahmaputra

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Guwahati: Armed with the map of assam and no fixed plans in mind, we spent the first few days at Guwahati. It was my mum's first unplanned backpacking kind of trip with me, where we had no fixed travel plans and travel meant using the local buses, which wasn't always the most comfortable!! We were invited over for special bihu meals (had some really yummy food and sweets) by my parent's friends. The stay at Guwahati took me back to the growing up years-small towns,well planned british colonies with red cottages and huge gardens,and surrounding hills.We were staying in the Railway guest house there!! The primary reason for spending a few days at Guwahati was to visit ' Parijat Acadamey " . Parijat Academy, is a school for children of families with low income, living in Pamohi and three adjoining tribal hamlets on the outskirts of Assam's capital Guwahati. My mum had come across an article in the Outlook Mag in 2006 and we had been only,helping out financially ...