Today was Gundicha Marjana, a day when hundreds of years ago in Puri, on the East coast of India, worshippers of Lord Jagannath gathered to cleanse the Gundicha temple from top to bottom. They took a vow to speak only Krishna’s name whilst they worked - splashing water everywhere and competing to see who could [...]
Entries from June 2009
June 22, 2009
G is for Graduation, Gratitude, and also ‘Goodbye’.
I graduated last month, and whilst initially I was just enjoying the feeling of not having to sit at my computer, racking my brains and consulting a stack of books, for the past week or so I’ve been tying up loose ends and preparing to leave England for yet another summer.
Part of leaving has been [...]
June 16, 2009
P is for Puja
In my house, the morning is a time for offering respects to God, and to those masters that help us understand how we can develop our relationship with him. These daily practices are known in Sanskrit as puja – worship.
Every morning my father worships his deity, blowing a conchshell at the beginning and the end [...]
June 3, 2009
BBT Art Seminar 2009
When I wrote a report of the first ever BBT Art Seminar in 2007 many people asked when further seminars would be taking place. Last November, the second one was successfully held, and I’ve just received the dates for this year’s seminar: October 20th-November 9th, again, in Vrindavan.
It’s a wonderful experience, and I’d really encourage [...]
June 1, 2009
Stamping at Stonehenge
Last Friday I travelled with the other members of Srishti Yuva Culture to Stonehenge in Salisbury. We were there to perform our collaboration with Kuljit Bhamra and his band as part of Salisbury Arts Festival. The piece imagined what the stones would say about their experience if they could speak – from their creation within [...]
