From diary entries to interesting encounters with people from all over the world, these are Poems Prayers and Promises that continue to enrich my life.
Nikhil and I finally made our Himalayan journey and spent 4 days in Khajjiar, also known as the Mini Switzerland of India. The journey to the place was simply fabulous right from Dalhousie, another hill station. The clouds were right with us and the roads, trees and everything else looked fascinating. Both of our cameras [...]
With this song, All of my memories, Justin and I ended our dinner musical at Mr. Keedy’s on April 6th. I guess it was a perfect song to end the evening as I parted ways with MVU. It’s a song about moving on in search of unknown as we talk about it in the video. [...]
I am on my way to Himalayas this weekend to feel the mist, the mountains, and the peace that comes with it. Hopefully the staleness that has crept within me will melt away as I spend my extended stay in India. The places I will be visiting are Kausani, Almora, Dwarahat (in search of Babaji’s [...]
Here is a song that I recorded on April 8th, the day I moved out of my Lansing apartment. I spent almost four and a half years there and have many memories of the times I spent there. It is a very old song, probably from the 40s. This is Slim Whitman’s version. You may [...]
This morning my father showed an article about me in the state newspaper while turning pages as we both sat sipping morning tea. A correspondent had contacted me a few months ago expressing interest to do a story on me. I didn’t really think he’d come through with it. I guess my India visit has [...]
I have been working at MVU since September 2002 when I was still a student. I have had some great moments working here and met and gotten close to some great folks. Today the staff threw a surprise “goodbye get-together” for me. They presented me with a gift card and a portable MP3 player. It [...]
I made a small video of a part of our conversation while we were there, and took some pictures of him with my father and me. Click To Play If you are having buffering trouble with the video, try the Google Link or Revver Video Link. December 7, 2006 Jolly Grant, Dehra (India) On a [...]
During my visit to Ranikhet (a beautiful small town set amidst the Great Himalayas in India at about 6000 ft. above sea level) last summer, I met an old watchman, who told me how people live in the mountains. He said that he travels about 6-8 miles a day just to get to work through [...]
This is another video from the same Sukhanfaham evening I spent with Capt. Lal during my Summer 2005 India trip. Click on the play button to start the video. You may want to pause it until the progress bar finishes streaming and reaches the end. He recites a beautiful Hindi Poem in the beginning and [...]
This is Capt. Lal, our old time neighbor back in Rohtak, India, reciting a very old (may be as old as him) Urdu poem from his college days. The man is a World War II Veteran, a former All India Radio Director, a Lawyer, and a connoisseur of Urdu Poetry. I recorded this during my [...]
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