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Top Kashmir leaders charged under ‘draconian’ law

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/top-kashmir-leaders-charged-draconian-law-200207071653972.html Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir – Two former chief ministers of Indian-administered Kashmir have been charged under strict Public Safety Act (PSA) six months after they were detained. Authorities on Thursday charged Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti under PSA – a law that allows detention without trial for up to two years – as part of… Read More »

Clara Aunty demise

Our dear Clara Auntie passed away at 10:05 pm on Sunday( Day before yesterday)- Feb 2, 2019 at the hospital, in the presence of my dad and her children She has been in and out of the hospital, for several months and Basi Chettan even used to go to shimoga to get medicine for her.… Read More »

India has IPOs worth $5 billion lined up this year

https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/india-has-ipos-worth-5-billion-lined-up-this-year-heres-a-look-at-the-top-candidates/articleshow/73722026.cms Indian markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India approved 16 IPOs worth ₹16,000 crore and And, yet another 13 companies which want to raise as much as ₹21,200 crore are await approval,says a report by Edelweiss Broking. In 2019, new public issues raised as much as ₹1.25 lakh crore. So now we all… Read More »

Soham

Read about Soham meditation in the book, ‘Soham Yoga: Yoga of the self’ by Swami Nirmalananda giri Also found their podcast, Light of the Spirit podcast, https://castbox.fm/va/111818, as well as the website – https://ocoy.org Found some websites too – https://www.stylecraze.com/articles/amazing-benefits-of-soham-meditation-to-lead-a-healthy-life/

The Private Man blog

https://theprivateman.wordpress.com/ Came to know about this blog from the book I am reading right now, ‘The Rational male’ Although the title of the website ( posted above) could be a bit misleading, riddles with several issues that men face including things related to the self image and so on

Creativity

To create is to move into the unknown, to move into the mystery of yourself, to have a feeling, to awaken buried perceptions, to be alive and free without worrying about the result. But the mind is conditioned to think that it wants a nice painting, a nice tree, beautiful scenery. No, maybe you want… Read More »

Hosting static websites

Tried the following three options 1. Google drive: although several articles gave step by step instructions, one article has mentioned that Google has revoked support for static websites. I tried and found that, Although it supports sharing a public link – only the source code is visible. And getting the link through the preview option… Read More »

Swami Bhoomananda

Yesterday listened to an interesting discourse by Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha, at Vadakkunnathan temple grounds. He spoke about the Gita translation he has done in English as well as in Malayalam. He also explained how certain words are pronounced the same but written differently in Sanskrit as well as in Malayalam We also bought a book… Read More »