Lullabies generally take drowsy children to a wishful land of magic-  a stuff from which they weave their own world and   safe and snug in the arms of mothers go to sweet sleep leaving the real, harsh world behind.  But lullaby by queen Madalsa awakens her sons from slumber and opens the world of […]

Nursery rhymes are short lyrics for children with apparently no meaning.  We call it nonsense poetry. Children get captivated by their catchy, rhythmic music and they love to sing. In all human cultures ditties for their children in varying forms are present.  Some of them are fabricated from imagination, some taken from the folklore, some […]

The captivating beauty of the Upper peninsula of Michigan lovingly called UP  has made this sparsely populated region  a  famous tourist destination. In  -25 degree Celsius the  entire area  radiates in white snow. The lakes become solid ice, hard enough to run heavy cars on it. The time and zone is declared and people with families […]

           Suicide is as ancient as humanity. It has its place in ethics, religion, literature, history and art. The newspapers apprise us that suicides are rather frequent. People all over the world kill themselves with an alarming rate and make suicides a major cause of death.  Amazingly many times more is […]

Nandi, the bull and the vahan of Shiva is a very loveable and formidable figure in Hindu religion. His pure love and intense devotion for Shiva has attained him the status of godhood. Nandi and Shiva have become inseparable in our imagination. In Indian spirituality there exist two realities – one that is for the […]