by Shazar | Oct 13, 2016 | consciousness, Environment, India, Mother Earth, Water Conservation
I am taking the liberty of offering these words of wisdom from a friend and exceptionally well informed and thoughtful person Vishwanath Srikantaiah. His writing and photography documenting the situation with the water crisis here in India is profound – please...
by Shazar | Aug 14, 2016 | consciousness, India, Life Skills, travel
It is said “Feel the fear and do it anyway!” How many times in my life have I had to do that? It never stops – it doesn’t change, confidence is not a birthright, or something you put on and leave on – it is to be stepped into each time a...
by Shazar | Aug 10, 2016 | India, travel
Landing in India late in the evening – as usual the Passport Control guys were a bit grumpy and authoratative.. but that’s their job. I didn’t have the exact address of where I was going so that caused a little “humphy-ness”.. but once...
by Shazar | Feb 26, 2016 | consciousness, India, travel
A walk down the road in search of where I may eat tonight: I leave my house where I am living, down the dusty staircase to collect my ‘chappals’ (sandals) at the entrance – yes they will last another day I hope – the shoe repair man did a good job but...
by Shazar | Feb 11, 2016 | India, travel
Mmm feels like coming home now – how interesting is that .. only a short time ago Mumbai felt like a big and strange and impossible to navigate, city of crazy drivers, manic horns, terrible pavements and incongrously majestic buildings stuck between the falling...
by Shazar | Feb 4, 2016 | India, travel, volunteering
Who knew that a home was so important? I forgot. Silly me. No rush I kept saying – I am fine where I am.. its clean, comfortable and relatively cheap. But I wasn’t feeling right – I was questioning a lot what am I doing here? Is this the right...
