A very simple life: born and brought up in Mumbai, I obtained my M.A. in English Literature and Aesthetics from Bombay University; went on to lecture at various colleges in Mumbai and Dubai, travelled a lot, both in India and abroad, have authored four books, "Temple Bells and other Stories", "Towards Light", "Bhagavad Gita in 365 Days" and "Sindhi Reflections". I am also a freelance journalist writing for newspapers, journals and websites. I write short stories and general articles that could do with religion, spirituality and just on how to enhance one's life. I am sometimes invited by the uninformed to address groups and end up making them smile, if not laugh. I fear the day I take myself too seriously and forget that kindness and goodness are more important than most things in the world. I enjoy reading fiction, philosophy, spirituality, poetry and sometimes even handwriting. My favourite poet has, for long, been Robert Frost. I am attracted to Rumi and Ramana Maharshi, Shah Abdul Latif, Hafez, Kabir, Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Zen Buddhism. I want to absorb them all and allow these alchemists to turn burn the base metal of my life into gold. I love the irreverant stories of Mulla Nasruddin, and thoroughly enjoy the music of O.P.Nayyar. I play chess online, solve sudokus and enjoy scrabble. But most of all, I love good weather, greenery, the lovely sea in the rains, laughing friends who care deeply, and people who do their dharma, doing their jobs with a smile and going all out to make the world a more lovely place to live it with their honest affection. I love solitude but I think it loves me too... Essentially, I find that I am in a happy place, the place where some of us can manage to walk between raindrops.<<