Green Horizon

 Hiii Today morning was a beautiful day. I woke up to a  Poetry written and read by my good friend at the annual Princeton Porchfest..She is the same friend who inspired me to write Anbe Sivam . Her Poetry is about I am more...I don't wish to reproduce that here because that should be in her blog. Her Poetry inspired me to pen down  the following. It's continuation of her Poetry in perspective to my thoughts . She concludes with 'I am abstract' and I start with this.... I am abstract...you cannot judge me You cannot value me ...You cannot cage me I escape all the human limitations and boundaries.. I am one with the Infinite, unthinkable.. I am just the pulsating 'LIFE'.. I am just the beating of the heart Totally untouched by the defined.. I am the Universe...the stars ...the sun... the moon.. I am the unexpected...the abstract... the wholesome. Thank you friend for inspiring me !

Hii As I sat extremely disturbed at the Pahalgam incidence which thoughtlessly snuffed out 26 innocent lives, on 22nd April 2025 there was a post in one of the friend's whatsapp group in which one of my friend mentioned the following: Anbe Sivam, what the world truly is just love. Nothing more. Nothing less. What do you think ? Is love enough. Today's blogging is my reply to the above... Anbe Sivam It's a beautiful portmanteau. With the present and earlier many happenings too, I wonder the releavance of this portmanteau though.. This would be significant only if it is used by all. A few follow this and few follow just the opposite theology and wreck havoc on the lives of the others who believe in Anbe Sivam. Though it is a very optimistic statement, it may not hold relevance to the radicals, incapable of thinking sense and spreading terror, affecting innocent families who had absolutely no inkling of the evil in the minds of the few. The dreams and hopes of these innocent l...

  A TRIP TO TRIVANDRUM All were excited and planning for this occasion. We boarded Ananthapuri express at 5:15 pm. This journey was quite different. We had so many of our colleagues in the same train. Meeting friends outside office has a different vibe altogether. Fun and frolic was in the air. Next day morning we reached the cool capital of Kerala the erstwhile Trivandrum. The city wasn't much populated like Chennai or Bangalore. From there we set to The Residency Towers, where magnanimously our accommodation was booked. There again surprise awaited us-a lot of retired colleagues whom we never thought we would meet had come with their families. Many of the colleagues from other regions had also come. Celebration was in the air. We checked in at 11.00 a.m. A smart colleague of mine immediately thought of a city tour and also arranged the same. He had the sublime way of addressing the tour operator as "Chetta ", or elde...

  Kashmir..the name echoed in my mind. It was not even in my distant dream, as even going to Kanchipuram which is just 100 kms away was not happening to me. However when Peethambaran mentioned that his friend's were planning a Kashmir trip I was all excited and said a big 'YES' . Peethambaran was initially not very happy with my response, probably he expected a 'NO' from me, with all the baggage's around me. He kept asking me, for reassurance whether I was really serious and I kept assuring in affirmative. By the way Peethambaran is my husband for those who don't know him. A Whats app group was created and all his friend's had booked the tickets. An excel sheet was created and all filled up their flight details. Only row empty was ours. So Peethambaran was still having doubts whether we would be really going. I had told him that I having hardly availed any of the LTC facility given by the Department ,in so many years, so I shall book the ti...

18/04/22 Ride from airport to Nizam Palace- touring officer’s hostel. Completely in contradiction to what I thought about Kolkata. The bridges and roads from the airport were all very neat and painted Blue and white. Honestly, I thought it would be dirty. Another surprise was full fledged service of old ambassador car all painted Yellow. First to visit was Ma Kali Mandir at Dakshineswar. She had her tongue out yet she looked very beautiful in her blue and golden zari saree and beautifully bejeweled. The temple architecture was quite different from what i had seen in the southern parts of India. It was painted light yellow and maroon red in the borders. From there we went to see Howrah bridge. This was an iron structure which encapsulated my imagination. I always wanted to walk on this bridge and it was truly fascinating with beautiful Hoogly river beneath. It was an exhilarating feeling. From there we boarded Heritage cruise for one and half hours from 6.00 P.M on the Hoogly riv...

Hiii I keep writing many of my thoughts, experiences etc but all at different locations, so thought of compiling it in the form of blog. Today being the first day of my blogging, for me by default, It has to start with my favorite deity, who is more like a friend to me.  The first temple of Ganesha I use to visit often was Pillayur kovil at K.K. Nagar , subsequently moved to Adyar and the signal Ganapathy at Adyar junction came in to my life . As I moved to Hyderabad, there again I cannot forget the cute Ganesha at a temple in Begumpet, Hyderabad. The idol was quite different and we could relate it to so well.  As I returned back in  Chennai, the Pilliar kovil at Indira nagar Adyar came to my rescue. I always felt the need for Ganesha temple around my place of stay.  My next move was to Mumbai, and there  the orange clad idol with cute black eyes of Siddhi Vinayak temple Prabhadevi Mumbai became my source of rejuvenation and this form of Ganesha came to my mind ...