185. Customer Service

During my recent trip to Tasmania, I had booked myself into few packaged tours with various tourist companies. One of  the tour was being organized by a cruise company in Hobart and lunch was included as part of the package. Before I left, as I was confirming the booking, I told the booking lady that [...]

152. Part 5 – At the farm with HH Devamrita Swami

Part 5 – Goat Attack !  I managed to wake up at about 4am and finished my rounds in my newly found brahmachari cottage. Once done, I trekked up the hill to relish another round of lecture by His Holiness Devamrita Swami. This morning he would deliver a beautiful lecture on one of the pastimes of [...]

85. The Razorback walk

All of a sudden from nowhere, a couple of friends decided they were going on a trek. We are all trekking enthusiasts but this is the first I would have gone on one with this group. In the past, I had backpacked from Sydney to Far North Queensland (Australia), Aukland to Queenstown (New Zealand) and [...]

78. Different opinions

I was having a loooong conversation few days back with an Indian gentleman who immensely hated two things in his life – Relatives and Religion. I listened to him with great interest as he narrated his experiences starting from 1950s to 2008 on these two issues. This was probably the only time when I didn’t explain the [...]

75. Ravana, the name

Recently, I met a young man who had the name, “Ravana”. I could not believe it. What were his parents thinking? In India, parents name their children after the names of Gods or other holy words but never had I known of someone naming their kids after demons. I had wanted to ask this boy [...]