GGF Report.

dear all, my GGF report is finally over after a month of struggling to write it! So if you had been curious about what i was doing bumming in vellore over the last year, then please let me kno and ill forward it.

A PERSONAL RECONNAISSANCE

From Ladakh

Tibet is just a gaze away.

They said: from that black knoll

at Dumtse, it's Tibet.

For the first time, I saw

my country Tibet.

In a hurried hidden trip,

I was there, at the mound.

I sniffed the soil,

scratched the ground,

listened to the dry wind

and the wild old cranes.

I didn't see the border,

I swear there wasn't anything

different, there.

I didn't know,

if I was there or here.

I didn't know,

I was here or there.

They say the kyangs

come here every winter.

They say the kyangs

go there every summer.

-Tenzin Tsundue

who am i?

"maybe we forget, so that we could remember more vividly the next time"

#$Magic%@, the lost word in our oh-so predictable world :p

Amul Anna

last night i got back from madras, and found that Amul anna had died the day before. and it didnt sink in for a while. only on friday had i taken the cycle to him and he had as usual changed the valve tube but refused to take any money. a final act of generosity among many many that am only now acknowledging.. wish i could have said more than just the regular and almost mechanical "Thanks na" before scurrying off.

it was a long relationship. for nearly twelve years, twice a week i've gone to him and exchanged friendly chit chat over the two minutes it took him to fill the tires with air. somehow it never occured to get to know him more. he had looked unhappy of late and the warmth missing.. but life was too busy to stop and enquire.

i had taken him for granted, and now..

its a vaccum that cant be filled so easily.

Soil, Soul and Society

meeting satish kumar, is one of the high points of last year. his eyes exuded so much humilty. this is an interview of him, and from now i hope to contribute to infochange on a more regular basis. (Plz let me kno if you want a longer version of the interview)

in knowing lies the liberation.