- Parvathi Shiva
- May 17, 2026
THE COOL CLAY POT
It was one of my first experiences of a door-to-door survey in the scorching Indian May rural summer. I remember knocking at the door and
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- Parvathi Shiva
- May 3, 2026
PIZHICHIL – beyond the mind experience
Pizhichil is an ancient ayurvedic therapy which has all round benefits to the mind and body. The procedure involves pouring of warm herbal oils that
- Parvathi Shiva
- April 19, 2026
BLANKETS: a graphic soulful novel
A few years ago, I read a book called ‘Blankets’. As soon as I completed reading it, I knew I could never muster up courage
- Parvathi Shiva
- April 5, 2026
STARE AT IT FOR SOME TIME
I was recently on a cleaning spree and came across one of my textbooks on the subject, ‘Real Analysis’. For those of the readers who
- Parvathi Shiva
- March 22, 2026
HESSE’S SINCLAIR, DEMIAN : a two-way route
During one solitary vacation, I happened to complete Hermann Hesse’s novel Demian. It is a short read of around 150 pages; it is not the
- Parvathi Shiva
- February 8, 2026
work is worship???
The term ‘worship’ originates from the old English word ‘woerthship’ meaning ‘giving back the worth’ or ‘reproclaiming the worth. Usually, the term worship is used
- Parvathi Shiva
- January 11, 2026
MOVIE: PERFECT DAYS (2023)
Perfect Days is a 2023 movie originally made in Japanese language. It is the story of a man named Hirayama, who is a middle-aged person
- Parvathi Shiva
- December 7, 2025
Weekend with Camus’s Stranger
This weekend, I read ‘The Stranger’ by Albert Camus once again. It is approximately a 125 page read and can be easily read in a
- Parvathi Shiva
- November 5, 2025
Movie: Safe (1995)
Safe is a movie about a typical housewife from a high-class American society whose daily routine includes kitty parties and some errands to keep herself
- Parvathi Shiva
- November 5, 2025
Hope Of Karma
Almost every religion has a concept of heaven and hell. Some religions have more than one heaven- levels of heaven. Each religion tries to propagate