Chai on the road

I love finding what I think to be an 'interesting yet simple' place to stop on my bike trips for chai. Invariably I get to practise my Hindi and have some fun with complete amiable strangers. On this occasion in Punjab on the way to Himachal Pradesh I met some factory workers taking a break. Simple guys with open hearts.

In the Defence of the Ordinary

December 27th 2022
Empty phenomenon rolling on. Anagarika Munindra <a name="Bookmark"></a>Zen teaches vigilant carelessness and detached involvement. In a more high-sounding phrase, it teaches transcendental ordinariness. In a simpler, more sympathetic phrase, it teaches nothing but ordinariness. Yoel Hoffman Awakening is ordinariness awakening to ordinariness ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more

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