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A Piece of Lost Time: The Shangrong Monastery of Ladakh | Vanillasense's Blog
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A Piece of Lost Time: The Shangrong Monastery of Ladakh. April 30, 2015. April 30, 2015. The little-known Shangrong Monastery is a 13th century monument, in the village of Alchi, in Ladakh, India. While people do know about the beautiful and awe-inspiring Alchi Monastery of Ladakh, the Shangrong Monastery gets ignored. Am I thankful for this? The many many chortens, monasteries, prayer wheels everywhere you go, is a testimony to the spiritual abode that Ladakh is, even today, when modernisation has start...
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January 1, 2016. These wings don’t know. Quite where they are headed. All they know is to flutter. They fly towards the sun and back. They know not how to stutter. They fly and swoop in one motion. They glide and they glisten. They catch the rays of the sun. And they boast to the littles. But be careful, the Old one says. Do not get out of hand. You are young, and bright and bold. But these are shifting sands. One minute the sky is bright. The next it turns grey. You must know when to slow down. It will ...
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Wars and Butterflies | Vanillasense's Blog
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May 3, 2015. May 1, 2015. When I see anything yellow. I think of you. The only thing that matters to me now. But I am losing it now. I don’t think I will survive this. There will be a new beginning. A butterfly will emerge. It might not be yellow. But it will be something. It will still have your taint on its wings. Those signs of battle. Long and hard fought. Only to lose in its last moments of glory. Must learn to walk again. Will I stumble this time? 2015 in review →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. This ...
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Art for Class 4. February 1, 2014. This is a writer friend’s new blog. Always liked his thought-provoking stories. A must-read story here! Surprise was perhaps an understatement, Robin was anxious. 2,249 more words. January 8, 2014. January 7, 2014. Show Me the Light. Show Me the Way to Wisdom, to Peace. January 7, 2014. Have You Ever Felt This Way? January 3, 2014. January 7, 2014. It’s just a desire to be together. It’s a desire to be around. It’s not because that person was beautiful or supremel...
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Young Love | Vanillasense's Blog
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November 14, 2010. November 16, 2010. Like the little school mate in the school yard. We’ll play jacks and uno cards. I’ll be your best friend and you’ll be my Valentine. Yes you can hold my hand if you want to. 8216;Cause I want to hold yours too. We’ll be playmates and lovers and share our secret worlds. So, I couldn’t help but write my own poem about young love. I miss the innocence of childhood love. That purity of the peck on the cheek. The fun in the games we played in the park. Just with each other.
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Festive Season: A Time to Reconnect, Renew and Relax! | Vanillasense's Blog
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Festive Season: A Time to Reconnect, Renew and Relax! November 13, 2012. November 14, 2012. For us Indians, the time around October-November is full of festivities and celebration. With a host of festivals: Dussehra, Durga Puja, Diwali, Guru Nanak Jayanti and Id all falling within a few days of each other, there is not much else on everyone’s minds except finding ways to make the best of the holiday season. But what really has this celebration of the festive season started to mean? Only if one shuns the ...
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Radio | Vanillasense's Blog
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January 11, 2015. I start the year 2015 with some creativity. This is a story that I have had in mind for some time, but only got around to writing now. Do let me know if you like it. 8220;Dear Veena,. And this is why I have decided to marry, Veena. I want to meet a beautiful, nice young girl from your country, just like you. I want a girl with a melodious voice, who sings to me when I am sad, speaks with the most beautiful accent, shies away when I approach her – just like in the movies! Or at least thi...
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The Tomb of Graveless Rig | Venezia.
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The Five Rules of Traveling. The Tomb of Graveless Rig. The Tomb of Graveless Rig. May 8, 2014. May 23, 2015. He was dead. Yes, he was very much what people would consider dead, but he himself would have thought differently. If Rigen Struve had lived enough to visit the western valley’s cemetery seventy years after he hung himself, he would have undoubtedly curved his lips and squinted his eyes and claimed Why, I have never been more alive! He left no note? You must understand, that I never felt like I c...
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I Sit By the Side of the Road | Vanillasense's Blog
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I Sit By the Side of the Road. December 25, 2013. I sit by the side of the road. And life becomes a movie playing in front of my eyes. Now I am the movie. I walk towards the sun. I am that little bird flying across the sky. I am the kid on the bicycle. I am the woman he kissed. And with the tingling on my neck. And jumps out of my body. It bounces on the street. And leaps into the chest. Of the woman next door. I am the old woman. Who fell in love and lost. And now I watch that young couple. A Piece of L...
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Sunshine: You make my Day!! :D | Vanillasense's Blog
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Sunshine: You make my Day! February 25, 2011. I am not exactly what is called a ‘morning person’, but somehow, I have always loved the sun and sunshine. And honestly, on days when I dont get up early enough to enjoy the sun for a long time, it really makes me sad. Then there are just so many things that I am reminded of when I see sunshine streaming in through my balcony. Having grown up in the tropical climate of India, like every other Indian, I too share a long relationship with the sun. Says its fina...
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