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  • A Traveller’s Lessons from two decades on the ँ Road

    by Narayan Kaudinya

    Few years ago while swimming in the river Tungbhadra in Sringeri, I met an Indian data Scientist who had left his job in the US to work on the Indian River systems. As we spoke while floating in the river conversing about culture and civilization, it that time when i realized something very commonplace, and the impression of its true meaning changed something in...

    22/04/2020
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    Guidance: Ways to grow, On The Road, Philosophy, Road Journals

A Rural Indian Wedding Travelogue

13/11/2021

When a wedding arrived Magically in Rajasthan

It was a time of peerless freedom. I was a young Yogi travelling with a backpack, pen, diary and...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 131
28/09/2020

When a wedding found me travelling in Mumbai

It was then my first visit to Mumbai. And hence everything i was laying my eyes on went deeper...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 152
27/07/2020

To a Monsoon Wedding and a Rare Feast –III

After Kaushik and I experienced our first monsoon thunder, together under this Divine Tree, I knew that home was...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 74
27/02/2016

The Wedding Song

In her wedding dress that one day she stopped counting years   I met J uncle on a very...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 31
19/08/2015

Jaimaal – The Wedding Song

An image of my parents wedding in 1982 I met J uncle on a rainy very cold january morning this...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 27

Nara, listen. Do yourself a favor, without thinking too much about it, pack a pillow and a blanket; and see as many trees and villages as you can. Trust me, you will not regret it.

Nara's notes from an old diary

15/03/2022

The Curse of A Tale: And Why each mother should make her child first, a ...

Sound is important. Anyone who takes on a story takes on the responsibility of passing it on. A.K Ramanujan,...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 47
06/03/2022

Lore of the Light: A Brief History of Nine Planets in India- ४

It was a short journey and my first to Ujjain in Central India. The city of time itself. I...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 55
23/10/2021

Turiya and RamaKrishna: Who Are You?- ११

Nara commentates … First called is Svante, alittle five year old sannyas aspirant, and subodhi, his mother. Ramakrishna tells him to shut...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 63
24/07/2021

The Road will Tell you- III

It rains as i write this, mad heart, be brave. Continuation from Call of the Now and Life and...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 80
20/05/2021

9 Ancient Yogic Ways to fight Corona Pandemic

When flood comes, the fish eat ants. But when water dries, the ants eat fish.  – Theory of Life, Virus will be...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 62
28/02/2021

Born to Run

The first half of Bruce Springsteen’s autobiography makes some things abundantly clear: He had no natural ability to play...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 42

Travellers of the ancient world were not merely travelling. They were writers, astrologers, mathematicians, they were observers of a different kind; they were seekers of the invincible absolute. They travelled sitting still, in their tapa, sadhna, in their meditation.

AK Ramanujan

Life Of Verrier Elwin: Past and the Present Of the Tribal Cultures In Central India: A Photo-ethnographic Essay

Published by Narayan Kaudinya

Elwin’s research work in India took place at a critical period leading up to the Indian Independence from British rule. Verrier Elwin first met Mahatma Gandhi in 1928 at...

27/02/2022
Comments 31
A Photo-Ethnographic Study, Ancient Travellers, Explorers and Documentarians, Madhya Pradesh, Oral Stories from Rural India, Tales from Rural India

Leaves from a Jungle: The Life of Verrier Elwin living with the Gonds in Central India – I/II

Published by Narayan Kaudinya

My co-travellers here on the Road to Nara, must already know and have experienced by now how much there is to absorb in India that is Bharat. Every state...

24/02/2022
Comments 45
Ancient Life and Research, Ancient Travellers, Explorers and Documentarians, Madhya Pradesh, Oral Stories from Rural India, Reformers Politics and the World, Tales from Rural India

Jyoti Bhatt : A Tribute to a Living Legend : A Photographic Essay on Rural Gujarati Indian Life(1971-1987)

Published by Narayan Kaudinya

Today, he is 87 and I will only wish that somehow a film compiling his works, his life, no matter however directed, should come out before we lose all...

17/12/2021
Comments 92
A Photo-Ethnographic Study, Ancient Life and Research, Ancient Travellers, Gujarat, India, Photographic Stories, Tales from Rural India

Learning to listen is the essence of deep living

Swami Vivekananda

Walking The Himalayas

17/03/2022

Last Few Days of Winter from my friend Rinku’s Home, in Naggar- Himalayas: A...

You know I love Delhi for its years old rich history, but more often than less, it has only...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 43
24/07/2021

The Road will Tell you- III

It rains as i write this, mad heart, be brave. Continuation from Call of the Now and Life and...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 80
22/06/2021

Call of the Now

Image : Looking over river Shyok entering into Pakistan, from the last remaining Tibetan Monastery in the Gilgit-Baltistan Region....

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 64
24/11/2020

The motorcycle, Dalai Lama and the Meal – I

Few years ago, I was travelling with once upon a time a beautiful friend. And like all great friendships...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 108
07/07/2020

Love in Himachal Pradesh

Lets start from where we ended. For twenty-seven nights, I was the only one living in a wooden balcony...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 39
28/10/2018

My house on a Mountain

Its night. Tonight I am the only person left on this hill. From my hut the jungle starts.  I...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 0

“Perhaps one day tired of circling the world I'll return to the Himalayas and settle in a forest of Devdars, if not indefinitely then at least for a pause while I shift from one understanding of the world to another.”

Narayan Kaudinya

Yogic Studies

Mysticism, Turiya and Ramakrishna: Conversations around self- A Photo Book, Yogic Studies

Turiya and Ramakrishna: The Science of Breathing

The first act of Life as soon as we come out of mother’s womb is, we inhale. Maharaj Ji asked me to sit straight and take one deep breath,...

10/04/2022
Comments 70
Ancient Life and Research, Guidance: Ways to grow, Madhya Pradesh, Mysticism, Oral Stories from Rural India, Yogic Studies

Lore of the Light: A Brief History of Nine Planets in India- ४

It was a short journey and my first to Ujjain in Central India. The city of time itself. I was almost strolling when on the ghats of Shipra river...

06/03/2022
Comments 55
Turiya and Ramakrishna: Conversations around self- A Photo Book, Yogic Studies

A Brief History of Ancient Temples in India: The Secrets are in the conversation- ३

I had just arrived from visiting a temple in Uttarkashi with my Guruji in Uttarakhand. He is from the state and well versed in the ways of temple building...

31/10/2021
Comments 116
Ancient Life and Research, Guidance: Ways to grow, Motivation and Inspiration, Turiya and Ramakrishna: Conversations around self- A Photo Book, Yogic Studies

Turiya and RamaKrishna: Who Are You?- ११

Nara commentates … First called is Svante, alittle five year old sannyas aspirant, and subodhi, his mother. Ramakrishna tells him to shut his eyes which he does, instantly, with full obedience, tight and very still,...

23/10/2021
Comments 63
Delhi, Making of The Capital, Quantum Mode: Walking in Delhi, Turiya and Ramakrishna: Conversations around self- A Photo Book, Yogic Studies

Yogmaya : The Sacred Power that witnessed New Delhi – १

It was sudden. A day of change. Something shifted. Paradigm. Light. Its been months that I had known where to look yet It took time to find. Because it...

07/10/2021
Comments 9
Ancient Life and Research, Enjoy the Paintings, Making of The Capital, Mysticism, Tales from Rural India, Yogic Studies

Truth, Evil and the Sun

When we reached Gopeshwar that night, Gana seemed speechless. But Neel looked at him with satisfaction giving an expression like then he has seen. We sat around fire, while...

26/09/2021
Comments 46
Ancient Life and Research, Guidance: Ways to grow, Yogic Studies

5 Ancient Secrets of Yogic Wellness – III

A long time friend and astrologer, who works as an Engineer in California has cautioned that the next 10-15 years is going to be very tumultuous for the world....

15/02/2021
Comments 52
Ancient Life and Research, Guidance: Ways to grow, Yogic Studies

The cost of Life?-II

“Conserve”, because No, nature does not need us instead we need nature to stay relevant as life on earth.” By the end of 2020, the year had dented many...

29/01/2021
Comments 29
Ancient Life and Research, Yogic Studies

A brief history of life on Earth and the origin of Yoga-I

It has been many centuries since humans have stopped moving from one place to another. Almost the majority of people today grow up in long settled societies. This new...

19/01/2021
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Ancient Life and Research, Guidance: Ways to grow, Turiya and Ramakrishna: Conversations around self- A Photo Book, Yogic Studies

Moon, Woman, and the essence of a Long Life

The year will soon end, and hence i was thinking of going into the realms of my understanding of this life as a Yogi, to speak to you in...

19/12/2020
Comments 47

Being a traveller is to carry; like a river, the memory. It is to flow, and surrender completely to exactly what is holding you.

It is to master your breath. To let the self be in bliss. It is to keep contemplating on the sublime, to travel as far within till you meet your sea.

T Krishnamacharya

Treks and Walks

08/05/2022

The Pond of Saraswati and Meeting With the Brahma Kamal : Nara on a four day trek to...

Continuing from FINDING Brahma Kamal: The Divine Flower Seat of Brahma: Nara on a four day trek to Rudranath...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 85
24/04/2022

FINDING Brahma Kamal: The Divine Flower Seat of Brahma: Nara on a four day trek to...

They say, “once you decide what you really want, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 39
12/12/2021

Days in the Hidden Valley of Mandal and a Small trek to Ma Anusuyadevi Temple : A...

While studying culture and ancient practises in the Higher Himalayas.Continuing from Pandava Forest and the Brahma Kamal : The...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 79
04/12/2021

FINDING Brahma Kamal: The Divine Flower Seat of Brahma: On a Rainy Night from Delhi...

While studying culture and ancient practises in the Higher Himalayas. Continuing from Pandava Forest and the Brahma Kamal :...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 60
26/11/2021

Pandava Forest and the Brahma Kamal: The Nights of Change in the Higher Himalayas &...

But before finding Brahma Kamal, Nara had to go through the forests where Pandavas once roamed. Pandavas!   The...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 118
06/08/2021

Remember me with a Lotus: Memoirs of heaven and birds in Kashmir- IV

Narayan, do you know why I am here today? I kept my silence. I couldn’t see my father when...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 173

One's happiness can only be measured by the average sum of sunrises and sunsets one has seen in his life.

Akira Kurosawa

Welcome To Heaven: Stories From the Line Of Control that May Enlighten The World– VII. Final

Published by Narayan Kaudinya

On the Great Himalayan Road Journey to Baltistan, today is the showdown, the final journey continuing from Call of the Now- I Life and nothing more- II Road will...

16/10/2021
Comments 100
A Photo-Ethnographic Study, Baltistan, Jammu and Kashmir, Laddakh, Non-Fiction, On The Road, Oral Stories from Rural India, Photographic Stories, The Great Himalayan Road Journey to Baltistan

The Wait Of Baltistan: Remembering Love and Lessons While Teaching in the Border Village of Turtuk – VI

Published by Narayan Kaudinya

On the Great Himalayan Road Journey to Baltistan, the final journey continuing from Call of the Now- I Life and nothing more- II Road will tell you- III Remember...

09/10/2021
Comments 58
Baltistan, Jammu and Kashmir, Laddakh, Pakistan, The Great Himalayan Road Journey to Baltistan

The Gun Mountains and Other Gods -V

Published by Narayan Kaudinya

On the Road to Baltistan, continuing from Call of the Now- I Life and nothing more- II Road will tell you- III Remember me with a Lotus- IV :...

14/08/2021
Comments 93
A Photo-Ethnographic Study, Baltistan, Jammu and Kashmir, Laddakh, On The Road, Pakistan, Photographic Stories, Save the Birdman of Kashmir, The Great Himalayan Road Journey to Baltistan

Life and nothing more- II

Published by Narayan Kaudinya

Continuing from Call of the Now, for the Great Himalayan Road Reunion. : ँ : To Srinagara, to zojila, to Leh, to Hanle, to the land that invoked my...

15/07/2021
Comments 108
Baltistan, India, Jammu and Kashmir, Laddakh, Pakistan, Photographic Stories, Road Journals, Save the Birdman of Kashmir, Tales from Rural India, The Great Himalayan Road Journey to Baltistan

“I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel...”

Che Guvera

Mystics and Healers

10/04/2022

Turiya and Ramakrishna: The Science of Breathing

The first act of Life as soon as we come out of mother’s womb is, we inhale. Maharaj Ji...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 70
06/03/2022

Lore of the Light: A Brief History of Nine Planets in India- ४

It was a short journey and my first to Ujjain in Central India. The city of time itself. I...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 55
26/09/2021

Truth, Evil and the Sun

When we reached Gopeshwar that night, Gana seemed speechless. But Neel looked at him with satisfaction giving an expression...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 46
11/05/2021

HYPNIC PICNIC : 5 elements Wind and Water published in Rare Journal

The journalist had been following my journey here on the Road to Nara and later found herself ecstatic on...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 11
16/10/2020

Life is only breath. Every other thing a distraction.

The night before was dedicated to red Hibiscus flowers. They ended inside the fire place while praying for the...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 39
15/09/2020

In Life’s darkness. Mother is light.

In these ongoing paralysing times of helplessness, while doing nothing; close your eyes. Think of water, a river. And...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 54

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”

Socrates

The Capital

06/02/2022

Home and the World : Walking around New Delhi and Old in January ’22

Even though every day, slowly months and years seem to pass as fast as they arrive; January is special...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 50
04/12/2021

FINDING Brahma Kamal: The Divine Flower Seat of Brahma: On a Rainy Night from Delhi...

While studying culture and ancient practises in the Higher Himalayas. Continuing from Pandava Forest and the Brahma Kamal :...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 60
07/10/2021

Yogmaya : The Sacred Power that witnessed New Delhi – १

It was sudden. A day of change. Something shifted. Paradigm. Light. Its been months that I had known where...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 9
13/06/2021

How i found my Will? And sooner my health. The Kushti world of Ancient Indian...

It was a week later, since that night of inner churning, when I met Sangram Singh again, and for...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 39
05/06/2021

How I found my self ? And sooner my strength- I

In the silence of the night, the only sound that started coming was of the rain drops dropping, infrequently...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 54
24/01/2020

The Pride of the Capital Parade

Sometimes guilt pushes for better results. Thus Chatter woke up dot at four in the brahm mahurat. Even though...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 0

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears

Ramakrishna Paramhansa

Motivation and Inspiration

23/10/2021

Turiya and RamaKrishna: Who Are You?- ११

Nara commentates … First called is Svante, alittle five year old sannyas aspirant, and subodhi, his mother. Ramakrishna tells him to shut...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 63
05/06/2021

How I found my self ? And sooner my strength- I

In the silence of the night, the only sound that started coming was of the rain drops dropping, infrequently...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 54
20/05/2021

9 Ancient Yogic Ways to fight Corona Pandemic

When flood comes, the fish eat ants. But when water dries, the ants eat fish.  – Theory of Life, Virus will be...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 62
28/02/2021

Born to Run

The first half of Bruce Springsteen’s autobiography makes some things abundantly clear: He had no natural ability to play...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 42
22/02/2021

Technique, and how must, can we learn one ?

Its amazing by how much we can get done simply by trying. Whether its writing, finishing a complex film,...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 17
25/12/2020

Conversations in a Dream

Never stand and drink water, eat food or smoke.  Some one very important from the other world entered in...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 68
10/11/2020

Tomorrow comes Daily

Slowly slowly as good days passed, hardest ones arrived. Three deaths and earning a bagful of silence later, we...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 51
25/09/2020

Finding Music

The poet-priest Kabir says, the first thing in the morning, do not rush off to the work. But take...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 56

If you are brave enough to say goodbye, know that life would reward you with a new hello

Paulo Coelho

Life at School

Life at School

How Pandemic changed the Reality for Children? Corona Diaries from School

Its been over three weeks since our small school opened. Two years later; Seeing things coming close to a world more open, towards unafraid times again is nothing less...

24/03/2022
Comments 81
Life at School, The Capital

Vandy and her Wonders

Day 6 I called Vandy again, out of love. To show our solidarity, that school is behind you, that we are with her in this hour of anxiety and...

11/10/2019
Comments 0
Life at School, Motivation and Inspiration

Many Children and a School for Life

Anyone who in coming weeks, months or years comes across this post, must know that we are always on a look out for someone who is happy and wants...

31/05/2019
Comments 0
Bruce Lee, Life at School

A Digital mind

The world has long gone past finding comfort for humans. Comfort seems secondary. They might only say it has only started. Facebook and Google will leave no stone unturned...

14/10/2018
Comments 2
Life at School

Schools ruining the foundational roots of learning

We spent almost 15 years being brainwashed on learning things that have nothing to do majorly with our present mind space. And we keep paying the price. It is...

11/10/2018
Comments 11
Life at School

Teachers Day is also a Mother’s day

Teachers day is somehow another Mother’s Day. Because mother is our first teacher. First person who taught us love, and taught us how to everything on earth. It was...

06/09/2018
Comments 3

“Nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”

Enjoy the paintings

16/06/2022

A Thank You Note from Mandal Valley; Cherrapunji of ...

05/06/2022

If Only Trees

26/05/2022

But Love, and Other Poems

22/05/2022

Namaste to the Sun: An Ancient Yogic Way to Glow from ...

15/05/2022

The Last Journey to Ganga and Scenes from my Ancestral Village...

15/03/2022

The Curse of A Tale: And Why each mother should make her child...

30/01/2022

Have a Little Faith: 5 things to Achieve by the Year end.

30/12/2021

THE ORIGIN : Thank you all my co-travellers. The Foundation of...

About me

Narayan Kaudinya

Narayan Kaudinya

Hi, I am Narayan Kaudinya. And i welcome you on this journey, the Road to Nara ! I am an Ethnographer and a practicing Indologist. I did my masters in History and further learnt Sanskrit, Yoga and Nerve-therapy. At 24, pushing most academic sounding, office sitting works away, i felt compelled to know and understand the world and my country, Bharat/India. I travelled, and as it happened i took up teaching in Kashmir and further up in the remote villages of Baltistan in the foothills of Karakoram Ranges. For around three years and many states later there came a time when i felt that it was only while teaching i learnt how to laugh, to see, feel, breathe, love and cry -with children, and mostly resource-less parents in the harshest-freezing border conditions. I write, and work as a documentary photographer and Filmmaker, with numerous published, exhibited and some awarded stories. In my travels and life i have let nature lead me, the divine mother, and as a Yogin, my resolve here is to share my experiences and thoughts as honestly, and through them to blossom in everyone the power and possibility in pursuing your breath, that you seek your true nature with courage and curiosity. Here, on this road i will share my spirit, my love for nature, the elements of life that are us. And in doing so, i'll be happy to see you along.

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Over Seas

A Journal of Animal Stories In The Last Ancient Fair Of Nepal

by Narayan Kaudinya

“There is no other no other culture on earth that worships a woman as a goddess. And has gone to lengths, to make her happy, satisfy her with whatever means a man could imagine. Honouring her, doing little things, like this fair to keep her happy, may be to create another excuse to celebrate, however irrational it may be. Because you see, someone told me on this journey, that if in a family, a woman is happy everything will be favourable. Our goddess needs to happy, at any cost possible” GADHIMAI FAIR : A Journey through the culture of Nepal A sparrow woke us up. After travelling for three days overland, from Delhi to Kathmandu; changing buses including sharing a seat for seven hours with a goat. Through the night, travelling in a time travel bus I was transported from a civil society to a town living thirty years back. A town darkened by the moonless night, wearing a layer of fog only dissected by the headlight of a second world war Mercedes truck....

09/09/2020
Comments 63
A Photo-Ethnographic Study, Ancient Life and Research, Explorers and Documentarians, Mysticism, Nepal, Non-Fiction

SINGSONG : Finding the King With a Golden Voice of Cambodia – A Photographic Film

by Narayan Kaudinya

In December 2018, I rented a bicycle and started recording songs of the people I would meet in my travels around in Cambodia. Through the sound filled in my ears I slowly started seeing. But few days later I realised listening, sitting in a room that all the songs that people sang were of the same singer. Sinn Sisamouth, the father with the golden voice of Cambodia. I started researching on this singer and soon learnt that Sinn Sisamouth was the most revered singer of Cambodia and South-east Asia then. He had gone missing under mysterious circumstances and was most likely killed in 1976 by the Khmer Rouge regime. And his songs were banned for the next four years to come. Khmer rouge was in power from 1975-79. It is estimated that the brutal regime claimed the lives of more than 1.9 million people. That was around 28 percent of the total population of Cambodia, eliminated. The regime tried to control and take the country back to the Middle ages, forcing millions of people...

28/08/2020
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A Photo-Ethnographic Study, Cambodia, On The Road, Photographic Stories, Social Documentary Projects

“I did not tell half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed”

Marco Polo
16/06/2022

A Thank You Note from Mandal Valley; Cherrapunji of Uttarakhand

Die for Two years. Live for yourself. Walk your longest walk. Swim in different rivers. Sleep in New rooms....

by Narayan Kaudinya
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05/06/2022

If Only Trees

The Devdar tree by the rockThe Fir and the Pinemust have its memories too:after a thousand years,see how its...

by Narayan Kaudinya
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26/05/2022

But Love, and Other Poems

Just for a moment,sit down and be with yourself. Close your eyes and thinkhow short is our life on...

by Narayan Kaudinya
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22/05/2022

Namaste to the Sun: An Ancient Yogic Way to Glow from Within

I had gone to my old Yoga school on a long walk. Not to meet anyone but to eat...

by Narayan Kaudinya
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15/05/2022

The Last Journey to Ganga and Scenes from my Ancestral Village : A Photographic ...

Visiting Grand Parents used to be the only time when the Joy of having many umbrellas multiplied the possibilities...

by Narayan Kaudinya
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15/03/2022

The Curse of A Tale: And Why each mother should make her child first, a ...

Sound is important. Anyone who takes on a story takes on the responsibility of passing it on. A.K Ramanujan,...

by Narayan Kaudinya
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Being able to listen well is a superpower, that comes with a key. And that is while listening to someone you should keep asking them “Is there more?”, until there is no more.

Keshvanand Maharaj

Short stories

Man’s Search for Meaning

by Narayan Kaudinya

When I returned to Ishbar that night, Shiban seemed speechless. But Dr Kaul looked at him with satisfaction giving an expression like “then he has seen.” And soon the moment came to explain to him what he had seen. We sat around fire, while waiting for the food to arrive. Open your ears, said Dr Kaul and he began speaking like reciting an over practised hymn. “The men in the east, he said, are trees; those in the south are flocks of animals; those in the west are wild plants. Last, those in the north like ourselves, who cried out while they ate other men, were the waters. When the collective sound of chewing filled the air, he started explaining about eating. The act of eating is a violence that causes what is living, in its many forms, to disappear. Whether grass, plants, trees, animals, or human beings, the process is the same. There is always a fire that devours and a substance that is devoured. This violence, bringing misery and torment, will one...

07/08/2020
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Jammu and Kashmir, Oral Stories from Rural India, Short Stories

One monsoon in Bengal – II

by Narayan Kaudinya

After hiding under the monsoon tree i had thought of home and had felt at that moment home is calling. Bengal had become love filled for me because of Kaushik. I was living, moving in the rural country around his village as he wished to. We reached his home thinking i will take the evening bus to calcutta but the moment we arrived at his place it started drizzling and it did not stop raining for next four days to come. Here I am writing from Kaushik’s village home in Jhargram. Its night. Light has come after nine hours. I have cooked six packets of maggie with peas and potato. We both will eat it all tonight. Kaushik has gone to get McDowell’s for himself. Its my last night. We are partying. Meanwhile, I posted that letter to M. Something happened. Let me share this. it was magical – I am fortunate to have spent a memorable time during west Bengal monsoons. The blue sky behind the clouds had slept and drizzling took a break from firmly...

02/07/2020
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India, Short Stories, West Bengal

One Monsoon in Bengal – I

by Narayan Kaudinya

Monsoons are coming, Or are they ? They say that this year it’ll not rain but the skies are going to weep. Clouds have arrived two weeks early. Even the universe knows, that this time children are angry,  they are not participating in anything. All are quiet and vulnerable. Few years ago, i travelled through Rural Bengal once in majestic Indian Monsoons. Being there it felt like my soul grew while in only seeing the earth showing her abundance, her happiness. So much went inside me then that i had to write a letter to a friend who sat far. Not to tell her as such, but to learn myself what was going. –– Clouds have arrived, I knew it ended right there with this photograph. I realised home is calling. Silda Football Ground West Bengal Rain was never far behind. This happened to be that moment of my journey. This tree felt home away from home. Travels have not been too comfortable but its liberating to learn that i could come to west bengal at this...

29/06/2020
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India, Short Stories, West Bengal

One night at the Indo-Pakistan border

by Narayan Kaudinya

As Corona and the bats are the rhetoric of the year, i remember one night that came and crossed all expectations of mysticism and fear that will always go together, found me at the lonely town of Rajasthan with Pakistan. – The day was done by the noontime. After a whole day of chasing a manganiyar singer, I finished my interview with an old tribal song as i requested Veeru’s great grandfather who sat under a neem tree looking up at a bird. I left Veeru’s beautiful white wall, red lined home in a hurry. I was leaving for Tanot, barely even a town, 120 kilometres away from Jaisalmer towards Longewala- and visit Tanot temple situated right at the border of India and Pakistan. I rented a Suzuki bike for three days. and left for the wilderness. It was all fine till a point but after Ramgarh, the road transformed into something like riding a snake. A snake slithering across, passing through the dunes of the oldest Asian Desert, that has forgetton the horizon between...

24/06/2020
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rajasthan, Short Stories, Tales from Rural India

A hitchhike gone eternal

by Narayan Kaudinya

I could well be passing my worst night. I had missed my fastest express to home, and was barely left with enough money to buy tickets again. Evening was around, I decided to reach the highway and do what i had never done. I started asking passing by truck drivers for a lift. As time passed and no one stopped, uneasiness was creeping in. I hadn’t done anything like it before. But I kept telling myself that if nobody stops I will rest at a temple or the next dhaba i may find. After a considerable time suddenly a big truck passed and seemingly started slowing down. It must have stopped 100 meters ahead. I ran. It looked strange at first sight for such a big thing stopping, for me!! It was a sixteen-wheeler trolley. Empty. I got in. There was only one small, frail person, the driver sitting. He was lanky, and looked too young to be driving anything like this. Also he looked grim, bit sad and may be in shock. Apart...

20/06/2020
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India, Non-Fiction, Short Stories

River is everywhere

Hermann Hesse
05/06/2022

If Only Trees

The Devdar tree by the rockThe Fir and the Pinemust have its memories too:after a thousand years,see how its...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 37
26/05/2022

But Love, and Other Poems

Just for a moment,sit down and be with yourself. Close your eyes and thinkhow short is our life on...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 31
21/08/2021

The Sins of America

Things have been volatile in our part of the world. Unsettling, as what happened was not conceived well before...

by Narayan Kaudinya
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24/08/2020

The Sweetness of Change

You will certainly know better things and worse things than those you already know, but that does not matter....

by Narayan Kaudinya
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17/07/2020

The Lovers

Where are the lovers? The ones who roamed and flew kisses at each passing nightingale; that one who promised...

by Narayan Kaudinya
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07/07/2020

Love in Himachal Pradesh

Lets start from where we ended. For twenty-seven nights, I was the only one living in a wooden balcony...

by Narayan Kaudinya
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In order to be universal, you have to travel first. And if ever you happen to leave, carry your culture, or better don't come back.

Narayan Kaudinya

Visual Life ON THE ROAD TO NARA

On the Wall. The school finally opens for Kids. Somewhere in Delhi.
Full moon of Magh. Somewhere in Delhi
A tribute on his first birthday since he left last month. Maharaj ji would have been 85 today.
In the future, we'll live astride the line separating life from death. We'll become experienced in the wisdom of grief. We won't wait until people die to grieve for them. We'll give them their grief while they are still alive, for then judgement falls away, and there remains the miracle of being. Just being.
From 1860 till about 1920, when they were replaced by the cinema. Stereographs brought many exotic landscapes to people's homes.
Waiting at a traffic light is not empty time. On the contrary. It is in this ceasefire that the anxiety of the battlefield suddenly erupts. Drivers are racked with apprehension. They light cigarettes, curse, tap the steering wheel, honk impotently. The wait many a times is intense and unbearable.
Some of this energy was exquisitely local. The city was changing in startling ways and there was a sense that life in this place would become marvelous. : that it would e liberated from the constraints of the past, and many unknown fruits would sprout in its ground.
Some memories that kept reminding me of being me, everywhere this year 2021.
Karma : Buffalo's dharma.
Chaukhamba,
"I remember once while on our way to a village on the mountain top, night had fallen and we were passing through a forest. It was cold. We were breathing heavily and had taken a halt when I realised a whole world of fireflies had started surrounding us. Forest had brought stars for us. So many that I could even see owls roosting in the dense evergreens above us. Uncanny. It felt something more, surreal. Till about that moment when they abnormally started pushing us to walk away. Like putting all there might to show us something or save us from something. Thousands of them in a line followed us further up for a while,"
This week on the Road to Nara : PANDAVA FOREST and the BRAHMA KAMAL : The nights of change in the Higher Himalayas.
There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.
Meditation
But on my way, I couldn’t find any transport, which could have taken me to the state highway, from where I could find the travelling camels. It was night and I had stopped just before a forest that was about to start, fearing a wild animal or may be even thieves or anything else. It was the dark of a moonless night. I sat by the road, near an old temple, which was closed. There was no body to be seen. No human to ask for food or stay or even the way. It had been over an hour, and I had decided to call it a day. 
Many days ago, first assignment, first trek, may be even the first image for social media back then, somewhere over Shimla.
It was a time when electricity hasn't reached the village. And people met to play various games in closed rooms. While walking one day on my way to school, i entered one such room, years ago.
Jyoti Bhatt, remembering a legend in his own hidden way. Documenting the India that was. I cannot imagine looking at his work, how much we would have missed had he not been doing what he has been.

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On the Wall. The school finally opens for Kids. Somewhere in Delhi.
Full moon of Magh. Somewhere in Delhi
A tribute on his first birthday since he left last month. Maharaj ji would have been 85 today.
In the future, we'll live astride the line separating life from death. We'll become experienced in the wisdom of grief. We won't wait until people die to grieve for them. We'll give them their grief while they are still alive, for then judgement falls away, and there remains the miracle of being. Just being.
From 1860 till about 1920, when they were replaced by the cinema. Stereographs brought many exotic landscapes to people's homes.
Waiting at a traffic light is not empty time. On the contrary. It is in this ceasefire that the anxiety of the battlefield suddenly erupts. Drivers are racked with apprehension. They light cigarettes, curse, tap the steering wheel, honk impotently. The wait many a times is intense and unbearable.

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