From Kanchi to Kumbakonam, saw many temples undergoing renovation. While i have no trust in the temple caretakers doing anything good either in keeping the heritage alive or sanctity, the utter neglect and the bad patches added at a place like Pullamangai hurts. They can't even remove the vegetation on the vimana?

I know all the pain, fights, truths, untruths and campaigns when the Kashi corridor happened. But, there is no case for keeping our Gods and temples in such condition. All these old temple towns need to be rebuilt. Rebuild new havelis foe the Gods. Have a rooted, aesthetic person to do a project. It is no body's case that people should live in such unliveable conditions and temples housed in such ...

This @veejaysai sent me on a journey to Treta Yuga asking a simple "did you visit the Adivaraha temple" Blessed that I could make it, have darshan.

Just a tweet series about things that moved away from Mumbai and the first I think on the list was IFC ... having lived in Mumbai for long and also covering financial markets that was a subject we all followed closely. Look at the report dea.gov.in/sites/default/… A gentleman called Percy Mistry now a forgotten name in Mumbai circles addressed several meetings, wrote many articles and also headed the committee. There is a comparison chart on how Mumbai fares against some established and possible IFCs nearby in Asia and Australia.

Down the memory lane ... Holding the vinyl in hand, playing it on a recorder which was also fhe same blue as this cover ... feels sad though with age, that we let go off the LPs. I think the virutham "veyiruthuli bangan" was in this recording. One day visiting Thenkasi, I noticed the verse pasted near...

Have had this Thiruppugazh cassette for decades, and I still listen to in MP3 format, as also ... Not able to find the complete album by Bombay Sisters ...

Best time to visit #Ajanta ... that greenery, flow of Waghora and this awesome viewpoint and that trek down unforgettable. 6-yrs ... wish to make another trip soon #Waghora makes its way ... #Ajanta

Convenient no to say VP Singh govt. What kind of a coalition was it and lasted for how long? No Rajiv Gandhi, Farook Abdullah, no Mufty Syed. They moved every machinery possible to the valley and pandits is it. Where are all those who were the big Kashmir reporters of that time? When you befriend Abdullahs and take orders from Hurriyat what neutrality then, and what questioning the cry of Pandits today. Even then the write ups were catheter then than what they transformed to be later ... What happened? You can't see the elite order disturbed?

What I haven't talked about since my friend is alive I will do now since there is a lady Kashmiri journalist asking if was even max was that genocide?

https://twitter.com/ShineHamesha/status/1504010668487237633

Leaving aside the debate over terminologies if it was a genocide or ethnic cleansing or whatever ... How many non-Kashmiri Muslims could go to the valley to report from there. She went to Kashmir as a reporter, she had dropped her surname, stopped talking Kashmiri

I am not a film critic so I refrained from writing anything on the lines of a review about #TheKashmirFiles ... that does not mean I do not have any reaction or analysis to share. Here are a few ... there are in your face assertions, visualizations. Sorry, if you talk craft ... Lead character Pushkar Nath Pandit played by Anupam Kher, the painted face of Shiva, preparing for the Shiv ratri drama ... don't like it, take a walk. Shiv ratri is one of the most important festival. What the genocide and exodus has done is to deny Kashmiri Saivism its roots

Came to Kanchi first time since pandemic hit. Rushed to Varadar koil soon and first stop as usual at Thayar sannidhi. I was so emotional, was in tears. But, aghast that while devotees aren't allowed inside the sannidhi the inner one two guys with phone and camera were shooting There 1 bhattar was standing with paper in hand & reading potri, potri, potri ... I controlled my anger. This is what they are capable of. A half baked translation and drama over archanai. In what way is that some superior achievement to the Vaishnava community's recital of 4000

This is a long thread, but not a rant. The prime controversial serial I watched only one episode to see what it is about, as a person who spent long years in media couldn’t get over curiosity. Seeing the cliched one episode that cramped all evils in a hurry, covering it all in one episode I said good bye. I would have done the same with the flix too.

Couple of years ago felt the sad condition of Mumbai, where do I tell people to go and shop for authentic textiles like the answer I get in Delhi, go to Baba Kharak Singh marg. when I moved to Navi Mumbai in 2002 I had little time to explore. Commute and work took all the time In 2005 I got to know about a Handloom Haveli in Nerul opposite Apna Market that housed many state co-ops ... I located it and there was this dusty, run of the mill cluster of stores. Many like Apco, Co-optex had by then shut down. It definitely was not the right location

In '92 when the Masjid was demolished, a 5 ft inscription fell. the inscription embedded in two walls fell down and broke, but the inscription was decipherable. it was a clinching evidence. The left historians would have conceded defeat one thought, but no they didn't Prof.Irfan Habib said it was a stolen evidence first, he said from a private collection, then he said from Lucknow museum.