Lalita Iyer

NOT SO EQUAL I posted about the Statue of Equality and the trip I had with friends. I then slept over it and got up all roiled to think that though built recently, it was still disabled friendly. There would be Agama Shastra to stop you from doing good for the aam junta because it is a temple and to be studied and later constructed only by those few learned ones knowing about this shastra and of course all about what God wants and needs. Give me one good, friendly priest, who will explain why the Agama has to be followed to the `t' even now.  We are still following many rules set during the British times, including in areas like education and prison reforms to mention a few.... But considering people are building houses close to temples; airports are being built in every small village; keeping all this in mind a few changes can be made, especially for the differently abled. The Statue of Equality is not a temple. It is built as a tourist attraction, already giving it the status of ...

 A TEA CEREMONY Murali and I are part of a group and there they held a virtual tea ceremony, for the early-bird ladies of this group, with a Japanese lady presenting it to us from Kyoto. Very charming, she with a kimono and all that. It was an interesting hour and more with a lot of questions and answers. Primarily there is no way the Japanese tea ceremony can be enjoyed by me to the fullest, because you need to sit in Vajrasana for this. I cannot go on my knees to look for my dropped gold ear stud. And then these days they serve only macha tea, I think it will remain a ceremony, at least with me. Macha tea is the latest fad, a dark green in colour, beaten to a froth with a bamboo whisk and drank from a tea bowl, the final sip slurped with a sound, to announce that the tea is over. Like I said before, not happening. I will slurp, to announce that I am enjoying every sip but from a rakabi, where treacly, hot and fragrant tea is poured on to a saucer from a continuously boiling kettl...