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Cochin, Kerala
2007-08-27 17:42:00 The train rattled along, inducing in me the sluggish fatigue of rock-rocking train travel and blanketing heat. I sat atop a wooden luggage rack in third class, legs crossed, ankles pressed into the hard wood, to prevent my mosquito bitten feet from dangling in the faces of the people below. The man beside me sat ...
Mysore
2007-08-21 14:16:00 The typical Indian bus resembles scrap. It is made of metal sheets, generously dented, perhaps a metre wide. The sheets are joined one to another by rivets, and this leaves a visible seam ? covered and reinforced, in places, by a dull-silver strip. It has rectangular openings positioned along its sides. The openings resemble windows, ...
Village Homestay, Karnataka
2007-08-08 09:27:00 A cock crowed, and crowed and crowed. I straightened, flopped my legs from the end of our just-bigger-than-single bed, and stood. I picked through a pile beside my bag, found a towel, toothbrush, toothpaste and the plastic tub containing our soap. I left Claire to sleep. A sun-blackened man had slept in the next room. ...
illuminated souls | sufi masters of indian subcontinent in the 19th century
2007-08-04 10:22:00 In the 19th century many great Sufi masters have enriched the Indian Subcontinent. This article gives a brief glimpse of the 3 such venerable masters. (i) Shirdi Sai Baba of Shirdi (ii) Syed Mohammad Tajuddin Aulia of Nagpur and (iii) Hazrati Babajan of Pune.While it is impossible for a layman to describe a perfect saint, the author seeking aid of Almighty Allah to do justice to the task.. Shirdi Sai Baba (? - 1918)Shirdi Sai Baba was a Unique Sufi Saint who lived in the Indian state of Maharashtra. He is also known as an Aulia to some, Qutub-e-Irshad and Ghous to others during his physical lifetime.Even today he has about 150 million Hindu followers who consider him a great saint and some even as manifestation of God. Many muslims also go to his Dargah to pay respect to the Master. A PhD thesis is reportedly has been written at University of Toronto detailing his life.He was Master who was always God Intoxicated 24X7. He constantly uttered ?ALLAH MALIK? (literally meaning, God is...
Matheran
2007-07-29 18:15:00 The miniature train, royal blue with shiny red trimmings, known fondly as the ?toy train?, waited patiently on its narrow tracks at Neral Junction. We boarded, and began the slow, winding 800 metre ascent to Matheran, a small town set amidst mountains and forest ? its name means ?jungle topped?. We sat opposite two Indian women: ...
Mumbai
2007-07-24 16:32:00 ?An individual-to-individual callousness? is still so strong in the country that it is the greatest danger for a foreigner living in India, for it is a frighteningly easy thing to find it creeping into one?s soul.? A. M. Rosenthal, The Future in Retrospective I stepped, not looking, and slid; swayed backwards, snapped forward, and stopped. A smear ... |
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