SVL 1.5: A weekend in Michigan

 Posted on August 11, 2015  |  3 minutes  |  464 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

<p> <img class="aligncenter" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=bc3f134ea3&view=att&th=147c738735f746ac&attid=0.3&disp=emb&realattid=ii_hyqcavj23_147c7125b21f0304&zw&atsh=1" alt="" width="342" height="456" /> </div> <p> <img class="aligncenter" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=bc3f134ea3&view=att&th=147c738735f746ac&attid=0.6&disp=emb&realattid=ii_hyqcavdy2_147c7125b21f0304&zw&atsh=1" alt="" width="342" height="456" /> </div> <p> <img class="aligncenter" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=bc3f134ea3&view=att&th=147c738735f746ac&attid=0.1&disp=emb&realattid=ii_hyqcav8a1_147c7125b21f0304&zw&atsh=1" alt="" width="342" height="456" /> </div> </div> <div class="gmail_default"> This was between meeting a group of Santosh&#8217;s friends for Philz coffee and a walk around the Infinite Loop and meeting more of his friends in Zenny, an Ethiopian restaurant in San Jose. [Read More]
ABCD  advaitam  ann arbor  apple headquarters  Apple's Mothership  avatar: the last airbender  bhakti  Bharatnatyam  boating  california  canoe  chinmaya mission  culture  devotion  dvaitam  english  Ethiopian restaurant  faith  Germany  kayak  language  Michigan  Phoenix  raft  regional language  storm  USA  zenny 

The Relevance of Culture

 Posted on July 5, 2015  |  16 minutes  |  3291 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

A conversation with an old friend of mine revealed to me that the word culture is too often associated only with religion and ritualism and dismissed as irrelevant. [Read More]
art  avatar: the last airbender  ayurveda  clothing  cuisine  culture  customs  dance  dean ornish  devdutt patnaik  diet  diseases  food  good and evil  herbal remedies  home remedies  language  lord of the rings  mc donald's  medicinal plants  medicine  meditation  music  mythology  myths that mystify  philosophy  preventive medicine research institute  Religion  ritualism  stories  translation  values  western science  yoga 

Thoughts about going Vegan

 Posted on March 27, 2013  |  7 minutes  |  1325 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

I was raised vegetarian and my family has been vegetarian for generations. When I was thirteen or fourteen, my parents told me that since I will be travelling when I get older, I could start getting used to meat if I wanted to. [Read More]
10% rule  animal rights  ants  artificial insemination  babies  balance  bones  buddha  calf  compassion  conditioning  conflict  consumer  cosmic  cow  crazy  culture  dead animals  dead chicken  destruction  development  efficiency  eggs  empathy  environment  food  fruits  harm  health  human nature  humans  jainism  Krishnamurthi  lactase  lactose  lactose intolerant  lifestyle  literal  meat  meat dish  milk  nature  non-violence  peace  plants  political  pollution  protector's club  rape  science  social  system  technology  thrive  tools  trees  vegan  vegan recipes  veganism  vegetarianism  where it comes from  wisdom 

LOG 1.17: Oh wow, Barcelona!

 Posted on November 10, 2012  |  9 minutes  |  1785 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

11th May, 2011 Ola everyone 🙂 I have successfully recovered to a state of normalcy after the most amazing and exhausting weekend I can ever remember having! [Read More]
arc de triumf  art museum  barcelona  barcelona beach  beatles songs  bella terra  children's parks  churros  culture  dancing  diversity  english  escalators  european  european kiss  faramir  flamenco  flamenco dancers  fusball  gaudi  gaudi's buildings  gaudi's masterpiece  gaudi's park  german  germans  gerona  gerona airport  girona airport  goa  greek god fountain  green scenery  hilly  LOTR  lucy in the sky with diamonds  modern family  mountains  music  ola  olympic building barcelona  orange tree  oranges  parrots  pigeons  puerto rico  Sagrada Familia  salvador dali  spain  spanish  spanish architecture  spanish beach  street full of clubs  surrealist  train  water pumps  weekend in barcelona 

Spiritual, religious or philosophical?

 Posted on October 14, 2012  |  6 minutes  |  1271 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

Many people confuse spirituality with religiousness, and philosophy with spirituality. Here I will attempt to tease out the differences as I see them. To be religious is to follow a given set of rules generally defined by an existing system of organised faith. [Read More]
adam and eve  arne naess  carbon cycle  categorise  ceremonies  christians and muslims  conflict  culture  deep ecology  deep experience  define  diversity  duality  duality of language  earth  eden  energy cycle  eternal bliss  forbidden fruit  god  identity  intellectual pursuit  joseph campbell  knowledge  language  maharishi  mantrams  math  matter cycle  meditation  mental definitions  merge with god  mind  moksha  monk  mountain  music  mythology  nirvana  organised faith  particle physics  peace  philisophical  philosophy  poetry  prayer  quantum physics  ramana maharishi  religious  religious philosophies  religious philosophy  rituals  role of mythology  salvation  sanyasi  social  spiritual  spirituality  theology  Unity  universe  water cycle  who am i?  who are we  wolf  yoga 

LfE 19: Work and Tea

 Posted on November 5, 2011  |  4 minutes  |  781 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

22/02/2010 Hello everyone, It’s been a long time since I last wrote, partly because I’ve not been doing too much of new things – the project develops, and software glitches occur daily that I patiently overcome. [Read More]
Amsterdam  anthropology  bicycle  british lunch  children´s charity shop  culture  dangrous  durham  FENS  fiddle  food  leith  linux  money  moving houses  paradigm  police  princes street  Religion  River  scottish tunes  shuttle  skype  syrian  tea  teaching music  technical  traffic  vegetarian  visa  walk 

Understanding India using Europe

 Posted on August 7, 2011  |  4 minutes  |  703 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

It is too difficult for a European to see India as one country when they understand it’s diversity is more at the scale of a continent – their continent. [Read More]
belong  british  clothes  comparisons  continent  countries  cultural diversity  culture  dances  differences  diversity  eco-systems  europe  geography  home  identity  languages  music  religions  similarity  states  terrain  united 

Balailakka Balailakka – Lyrics and Translation (with end notes)

 Posted on July 29, 2011  |  5 minutes  |  1016 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

A.R. Rahman had another party with this movie. He has explored several new styles including hip pop in the movie Shivaji – The Boss. Although it has some lines just for the sake of rhyming lyrics(I will mark these with a ‘*’), this song makes me long for home. [Read More]
culture  fast paced  lyrics  movie  music  Rajani  recent  return to india  Shivaji  song  tamil  Tamil Nadu  tamizh  things you miss about india  translation