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…