TWO FILMS IN A ROW.....AND AM UPSET NOW Did I ever tell you guys that if I had been offered a little more, I would have been in the film making side of media. I had a day job as a journalist and I was living in a hostel and just about making ends meet. I was doing an evening course in Film Making at the St Xavier's College, Bombay. And just to let you all into a secret, Sanjay Leela Bhansali and I would be back benchers. He was not very talkative but we did not need to be because we got to see some of the most fabulous films back then. And no I did not get in touch with SLB ever. I also made a terrific friend for life. Niren Dutt would take me around on his bike to all these fantastic places, which in retrospect were a tad shady but back then it was adventurous and I gave a damn. Niren left us during the covid times. And he is missed. And once we finished the course, I have no idea of what the other people did, but Niren continued with his marketing job with some packaging company...
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A VISIT TO KANHA SHANTI VANAM. SHANTI, SHANTI, SHANTI.....
Peace has been redefined. At least for me. I went on a visit to Kanha Shanti Vanam, just for a night. It was sheer happenstance. The ambience gets to you, even as the sun beats down harshly. I mean there are arbors and someone has thought of growing creeper vegetables along with flowering plants in these spaces. And the evening breeze is so soothing as the fragrance of jasmine fills the air. That we were being driven by a friendly Phanindra in a golf cart added to this charmed visit. This Heartfulness institution is all about meditation, centering yourself and finding that calmness between living in the now and being able to receive it with the grace that is needed. There is a morning and evening meditation for those who visit this place and we went to the largest meditation centre in the world, capable of seating one lakh persons at a go. At 5.30 pm sharp the meditation starts to end with a 'That's it' from whoever is leading the meditation. O...