Yesterday (FRdiday) was varalakshmi pooja and today was (is) ‘avani-avattam. Varalakshmi Pooja is a prayer to the 9 forms of Goddess Lakshmi – Dhana, Dhairya, Arogya…..etc. At our house it is a completely women festival – with my daughter making the arrangements, my mother and wife making the goodies, and both of them doing the […]
When you grow up in Ghatkopar and live there for 3/4ths of your life, most friends tend to be Jains. So over the past 10 days a lot of them called me to say ‘Michhami Dukkadam’. And as is wont, I repeated it. Little did I realize that I am communicating far, far more on […]
Today is Micchami Dukkadam – the Jain way of saying ” To commit mistakes is human, hence I request your Forgiveness, if I have hurt you unintentionally by my words or Action”. Like the American concept of Thanksgiving this too is a fantastic concept. It actually makes you introspect on all the negative actions that […]