What triggers a memory? The senses - the smell or the taste, the sound or the sight. And some memories are more vivid than others. Every Maha Shivratri I am reminded of the year of my Boards. It was 2nd of March - exactly two days before the Class X exams started. As was my... Continue Reading →
Amish Tripathi calls him "Dude of the Gods". Others call him by various names - 1008 names to be precise - Bholenath, Mahadev, Shankar, Shambhu, Rudra, Neelkanth, Nataraja or Shiva are some of the more popular ones. He is a paradox - as a destroyer and a benefactor, as an ascetic as well as a... Continue Reading →
The launch of new book by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni made a huge splash on Twitter towards the end of last year or may be it caught my eye because I follow many authors and book publishers to get the book references to read in future. But I had not read any of her books till... Continue Reading →
I read Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice at least once every year, today I was channel surfing to at least watch the movie, it wasn't showing anywhere and neither it was available on Netflix or Amazon Prime - so it's back to the ever classic book for tonight's reading. https://poojasodhi.com/timeless-reading-pride-and-prejudice/
Keeping memories alive, a look back on Basant Panchami - BHU celebrates its founders day with Saraswati Puja and lot of festivities!
Celebration of India's Republic Day ends with Beating the Retreat ceremony, reposting an old blog https://poojasodhi.com/i-still-have-faith-in-this-country-its-people-its-military/
The fight for Indian Independence was fought at many levels - from the boycott of foreign made clothes, to making salt and by making statement through food. And Banaras (Varanasi) led the way by creating special mithai (sweets) during the Independence movement and the most famous of that is the Tirangi Barfi of Banaras. The... Continue Reading →
The end of a calendar year is a time for retrospection, and it results in many year-end lists by journalists across the spectrum of fashion, movies, tech, music, political news and my favourite genre - books. Reading a blog by Sunil Sethi and an article by Seema Goswami (both of whom I follow to get... Continue Reading →
I have been meaning to read Siddhartha Mukherjee‘s The Emperor of All Maladies ever since it was released in 2010. However, the morbid subject matter made me pushing it back on my reading list. But over the years, I have come to hear about a new cancer case atleast once a week on an average,… Continue Reading →
9 days of Devi worship Navaratri amidst Indian Me Too movement. In a country where girl child is worshipped as Kanjika, where various avatars of women are worshipped as the harbinger of wealth and knowledge, or as a benevolent mother who protects all, the real stories are scary, heart breaking. https://poojasodhi.com/celebrating-the-goddess-within/
It has become an annual ritual in our house to wake up early on Mahalaya morning and listen to Mahisasuramardini. This tradition likely began with my maternal grandmother, a devotee of Goddess Durga, who lived in Patna surrounded by Bengali households. It continued even after she moved to Banaras, and later my mother passed it... Continue Reading →
I wrote this last year, but in view of recent judgements by Supreme Court of India, reposting it. https://poojasodhi.com/we-the-people-of-india/
