Postcards from Shillim

I spent three days at Hilton Shillim, three hours from Mumbai to experience their detoxifying, decompressing Dharana way of life . Three days is too short for real detoxing but it was a wonderful introduction to a brand of eco wellness, truly in the middle of nature. (It’s in a UNESCO designated biosphere in the…

Giving Back with Meera Gandhi

New York based Meera Gandhi has been a banker, fashion buyer at Macy’s, zardozi entrepreneur, the one who bought Eleanor Roosevelt’s brownstone at Park Avenue, is a proud  Mom of three and Founder of the Giving Back foundation. The Foundation among other things awards and honours  film makers for social change at Woodstock, (awardees include Mira…

Tara – the enlightened one

I loved this gallery of Taras in Bhutanese style thangkas at Mumbai’s Tasting Room, and thought it would be nice to share this with my readers. The goddess Tara is a great deity in Tibetan Buddhism and in the Mahayana  tradition.  I like Tara because she was an early feminist. When she attained Bodhisattva status…

What a Buddhist monk taught me about breakfast & meditation

Of late, some of my Instagram food posts have been getting some love . It is a good feeling as I am neither a food expert, or a home chef.  In fact I don’t particularly like cooking. But I am trying hard to put my head in order . And strangely breakfast came to the…

Jentsunma Tenzin Palmo in Mumbai

It was inspiring and delightful to hear Tenzin Palmo in Mumbai thanks to Aspi Mistry at the Dharma Rain centre and the Piramals, the wonderful folk who made the Lotus Lounge, a serene, green, silent space in the heart of the city available to dhamma seekers. Jetsunma’s story is well known and documented ( check…