Again, let’s think inspirational!

St Joseph's College graduating class of 2015. Photo: DIPR 

I’m sure you read about St Joseph’s College graduation day ceremony held recently. Reports of the event made the front page of all the papers since it was addressed by Governor PB Acharya.

According to the reports, the governor, in his address, emphasised on skill development and said the central government has earmarked 30,000 crores for skill based education in universities with the idea to equip students with skills so that they become assets to the country and not liabilities.

What’s so great about Coriander?

Coriander, Cilantro, Chinese parsley or Dhania – people in different regions call it by different names. But we’re all familiar with this aromatic seasoning herb. It’s a favourite in many households and we use it quite regularly to garnish and add flavour to our curries, salads and chutneys.

But did you know that it does a lot more than enhance the taste of your food?

Our weddings have become ostentatious & tasteless displays

The Turkish couple Fethullah Üzümcüoğlu and Esra Polat, still dressed in their traditional wedding clothes, seen behind the counter serving meals to the Syrian refugees on their wedding day in August

Did you read about the Turkish couple Fethullah Üzümcüoğlu and Esra Polat who celebrated their wedding day with 4,000 Syrian refugees? Their story had gone viral a couple of months ago.

Instead of having an exclusive and extravagant wedding in a swanky hall, the young couple from the city of Kilis in southern Turkey decided to share their joy and a meal with the thousands of Syrian refugees displaced by armed conflict as they tied the knot in August earlier this year.

Golden harvest and after in Nagaland

Bridge to the golden side: Terraced fields ready for harvest at Khonoma village in Nagaland India

The star-crossed voyager

Music……it’s so profoundly linked to personal memories, isn’t it? Hearing particular songs can stir powerful emotions and take us back in time – to a moment or event perhaps, a person or a phase in your life.

Elton John’s ‘Can you feel the love tonight’ is one that does it for me. It always brings back this beautiful person who flew off to be with the angels too soon. The song drifted out of a shop window yesterday and he’s on my mind.

When the River Sleeps

Vilie, a guardian of the gwi, the majestic mithuns that walk the enchanting and enchanted forests of Nagaland, sets out on a quest to find the river of his dreams and to wrest from its heart a charmed stone that will give him untold powers.

“When the river is asleep, it is completely still. Yet the enchantment of those minutes or hours when it sleeps is so powerful, that it turns the stones in the middle of the river bed into a charm. If you can wrest a stone from the heart of the sleeping river and take it home, it will grant you whatever it is empowered to grant you.”

Set your priorities - the rest is just sand!

A friend forwarded this to me and though I’m sure many of you must have already come across it, it’s such a great lesson that it would be a shame not share it………