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 

LOG 1.13: Spring 'time', German and the 60´s

 Posted on October 13, 2012  |  5 minutes  |  1062 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

31st March, 2011 After some rain last night, the air smells like monsoon in India; so fresh and clean! I´ve opened the window to let it come in and along with it are the chirps and tweets of the birds. [Read More]
1960s  23 hour day  60s  ability  america  babies  Beatles  bird chirps  cello  challenge  christmas  deaf  disorienting  diversity  Elvis  equinox  flowers  german classes  german sign language  get ahead  I Dream of Jeannie  Japanese  less flashy  melodious  mexican food  mongolia  monsoon air  monsoon rain  music and dance  namibia  networking  portuguese  professors  romantic  science  seaside town  spring  summer time  switxerland  violin  wilhelmshaven 

Frames of Reference

 Posted on March 13, 2012  |  3 minutes  |  569 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

A colleague of mine is taking German lessons and when the topic of poetry came up at lunch, he described Elftans, and their structure. It reminded me a little of Haiku so I said ¨Sounds like the European version of Haiku¨. [Read More]
A.R.Rahman  Bollywood  cultural  diversity  Eurocentric  films  german  Haiku  Hollywood  Jai Ho  Japanese  Kollywood  learning  movies  Mozart  Oscar  Oscars  Pentameter  play  poetic form  poetry  power  power play 

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]
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