Becky Blab

I turned 30 on Monday. While I used to wonder why people felt shy about announcing their age, I think I’m beginning to understand. As I approached this milestone last week, I began to feel more like I was marching to the grave than I ever have before. It wasn’t necessarily scary, but it made [...]

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[youtube vdEnxNog56E] With the growth of Indian cities, people are out at all unnatural hours. But this song, written in 1931, brings up the point that before, no one would have ventured out except… Why Englishmen? They would have had important things to do, like run a government! Conduct business! Otherwise wield their power over [...]

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Caught up in the race of cars, thoughts and rats. Continuous comparison, city life of crowds and competition no space to hear yourself think others breathing down your neck the heat grit smoke dust choking all life around. The seat of government and diplomacy, madness and no mercy. To thrive: a miraculous task; most just [...]

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An update on my recent post, courtesy of my mom who provides me a steady stream of articles on India in the New York Times. Somehow I decided to read this one, on the U.S. Treasury secretary’s visit to India: Mr. Geithner has his work cut out for him, economists and policy analysts in both [...]

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We’ve all heard the predictions that India’s meant to become one of the next global greats. But what about it’s spiritual power? India as a culture has invested more time, energy and human resource toward the spiritual development of human beings for a very long time. This can only happen when there is a stable society [...]

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