Girish's Blog

Post the unprecedented people support to crusader Anna Hazare where the yuppies, puppies, rich, poor, middle class and the entire spectrum of Indian society came together to give a resounding “NO” to corruption, we slowly and surely have the political class and so called opinion makers trying to queer the pitch on the necessity of the Jan Lokpal bill. First, we have politicians and so called intellectuals trying to read too much into the statement made by Anna on the development in Gujarat and Bihar. We have the Sarabhai’s shouting about how human rights have been trampled and there is no development in Gujarat. Looks like the big industry houses are stupid to commit Rs. 15 lakh crore in the vibrant Gujarat summit held this January. This caused so much concern that the UPA Government has let the income tax goons loose on the Gujarat government asking for details of proposed investments. Is the income tax department within its rights to ask for such information? That is a separate ques...

We checked out of the hotel at around 8am and after breakfast decided to go to the Dham for ‘darshan’ (view) and then to the Ashram. We reached the Dham at around 9.30am and sat down for meditation (we were told not to take more than 10 minutes). We paid obeisance and sat down cross legged for meditation. The energy was very high and I could feel a tingling sensation from the moment I sat down with my palms open. The tingling sensation started from the fingers and through the palm into the rest of the body. A sense of peace pervaded and after ten odd minutes we opened our eyes, took holy water as ‘teertha’ and came out of the meditation hall. A lady devotee had asked me to make certain enquiries at the office, which I duly did and sent a text message on the information she required. One of our companions had an errand to do for the ‘sahitya’ center in Mumbai, for which we went to the Navsari sahitya office thereafter. We reached the office and took whatever was given to take back to Mu...