Prasanta Behera Blog

Wish all of a wonderful holiday and a Happy New Year! Normally during the end of the year, we hear the top ten list (pictures, movies, books, etc).  Keeping that trend, here are some good movies I saw this year (what I remember): The Way, Anmal (Hindi), The Way Back,  The magic of Bella Isle, The Last Love, The Little Boy , The road within, Like Sunday Like Rain, Dhanak (Hindi),  Winter in Wartime, The Artist and the Model, The Boy With Stripped Pajamas, Night Train to Lisbon ...  Let me talk about an interesting micro-trend I saw in our community this year (or I observed it now ... I am slow observer) This year we had lots of graduation parties, 16th birthday, 25th anniversary and 50th birthday celebration.  In quite a few, there was " color theme "  based dress requirement.  After saying " Yes " to the "evite", I don't pay much attention to the reminders as long as I know the date, time and place to go and so  quite a few times, I end of ...

Oh midsummer night moon let me see your face let me soak you rays of light like a dew drop caressing a leaf we are connected we are connected forever but why do you hide from me? Are you afraid to show what is on the other side? The veil of universe shrouds in mystery what lies behind the facade what lies behind the brighter side. Why are you afraid to show the realm Do ghosts linger in them? II The banyan tree basking in glory shinning leaves shimmering in moonlight. Look at me, look at me I am the tree of life you can see all my sides. I can see you and you can see me we are connected as you are part of me I am the tree of life! But what about  the branches hidden deep inside They look short; they look barren hiding deep inside. Why was their life cut short Oh tree of life! Why did you let the branches fall before their time? Why do you not mention about it! Like moon, you bask in glory like moon, you hide inside do you hide ghosts inside O...

This is time to share and books are the best gifts to give.  I thought I will share what I have read so far. I would love if yo u can share some good books you have read which I can read in the  holiday break. Legend: (*)  - I like the book (!*) - Book recommended by a friend which I like   "Monkey and Monk" - Anthony C. Yu  "Shambhala - The sacred path to Warrior" - Chogyam Trungpa  "The Narrow Road to the Deep North" By Matsuo Baso (*)  "When Breath Becomes Air" - Paul Kalanithi (*)  "The Righteous Mind" - Jonathan Haidt (*)  "One hundred years of solitude" - Gabriel Garcia Marquez  "The Difficulty of Being Good" - Gurucharan Das (*)  "How to live on 24 Hours a Day" - Arnold Bennett  "Meditations"  - Marcus Arurelius  "Stories from Tagore" - Rabindranath Tagore  "Stray Birds - Tagore (*)  "Catfish and Mandala" - Andrew Pham (!*) ...