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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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India and the World

15/08/2022

The STORY OF INDIA in 75 Independent Years

Today is 15th August. It is a date with destiny. A total of 6 countries got Independence on this...

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17/09/2021

At War, with the truth. With Afghanistan and her Killers: A photographic Essay of...

I wasn’t really planning to write anything, after The Sins of America any more of whatever turned out in...

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The Sins of America

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

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My Ten Strange Days of Meditation at an Age Old Vipassana Centre: A Complete Guide On...

It was 1ST February 2007, when I first wrote this article. Fifteen days after, when my supposed vow of...

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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...

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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...

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

I had just arrived from visiting a temple in Uttarkashi with my Guruji in Uttarakhand. He is from the...

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I woke up and saw two Golden Eagles, hovering above me. But my first thought were not the eagles in the sky but the leeches on ground, somewhere. What if they were dining on my hard earned blood all night! But It was fine. One thing that I made peace with since my teaching days in the Karakoram Mountains was the sleeping bag. Travellers start keeping their Heart in there pockets when there is no coming back home; because their life becomes a home itself.  “Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Frederick E. Wilson was only 25 years old when he deserted the British Indian army in Mussoorie. As per some sources, he had killed a fellow Soldier in a duel and that caused him to flee. For reasons unknown, he escaped towards North and entered the Kingdom of Tehri Garhwal where he asked the King to grant him some employment. But the King who was an ally of the British, would have nothing to do with him lest his British friends be unhappy to find out that the King was sheltering a fugitive from their Army. Left with no further recourse it is said that Pahadi(Mountain) Wilson went even deeper into the Mountains till he came to the Valley of the Bhagirathi at a place called Harsil and decided to set himself up over there far away from the civilisation. At a turn a Naga found me riding. He wished to sit to pass a mountain over. The wish was granted. But soon I found him coming closer to my ear. And realized he only spoke in hisses. May be he wanted me to carry his tale. But I was helpless and turned towards a river. Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, and every sundown, a little death. As the wise men say about "Trees being the poems the earth writes upon the sky." Reaching Gopeshwar via legendary Uttarakhand State Bus “As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul .. ” Sound is important.
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I woke up and saw two Golden Eagles, hovering above me. But my first thought were not the eagles in the sky but the leeches on ground, somewhere. What if they were dining on my hard earned blood all night! But It was fine. One thing that I made peace with since my teaching days in the Karakoram Mountains was the sleeping bag. Travellers start keeping their Heart in there pockets when there is no coming back home; because their life becomes a home itself. 
“Wisdom tells me I am nothing.
Frederick E. Wilson was only 25 years old when he deserted the British Indian army in Mussoorie. As per some sources, he had killed a fellow Soldier in a duel and that caused him to flee. For reasons unknown, he escaped towards North and entered the Kingdom of Tehri Garhwal where he asked the King to grant him some employment. But the King who was an ally of the British, would have nothing to do with him lest his British friends be unhappy to find out that the King was sheltering a fugitive from their Army. Left with no further recourse it is said that Pahadi(Mountain) Wilson went even deeper into the Mountains till he came to the Valley of the Bhagirathi at a place called Harsil and decided to set himself up over there far away from the civilisation.
At a turn a Naga found me riding. He wished to sit to pass a mountain over. The wish was granted. But soon I found him coming closer to my ear. And realized he only spoke in hisses. May be he wanted me to carry his tale. But I was helpless and turned towards a river.
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, and every sundown, a little death.
As the wise men say about "Trees being the poems the earth writes upon the sky."

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