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| Kolam for a yogi |
Music, art, celebration and spiritual expression filled my first week back in Chennai. Caught the indie Tamil duo Mallipoo and the Alwas (Jasmine and the Sweets) at a local sabha, attended a devotional music concert by a former ACJ colleague, marked the first birthday of Steven Samuel in a second-floor Pentecostal Church, caught a jazz concert by a young woman who skat sang in a blue sari, stayed with a potter in her Auroville home, gobbled coconut gelato on the Pondicherry beach and traveled on foot village to village with hundreds of devotees of the yogi Sri M as he led “The Walk of Hope.” And of course, spent a Sunday with Alphonse, Alice, Grace, Joy and Albert. And tonight from the roof of my guesthouse, I saw the blue, blood moon (no longer super) rise over the Bay of Bengal.
What does it all mean? More than I can say.
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| Alphonse and Grace
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| Hanging out with Steven Samuel and his parents at Alphonse’s |
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| Mallipoo and the Alwas |
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| Shreya Ramnath sings “bhajan,” songs of love and devotion. |
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| Celebrating Steven Samuel’s first birthday at Zion Pentecostal Church |
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Jazzy jazzy night
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| Puneet (right) selling her pottery at the Alliance Francaise in Pondicherry |
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| Puneet’s pottery |
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| Look here, Diogenes! |
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| Friends Moogi, Gowri and Ratish at the Walk of Hope |
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| Gathering at dawn for the walk
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| Amateur media scrum as the yogi arrives |
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| Devotees |
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| Sri M and his entourage |
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| A stop for tea |
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| Picking berries along the way |
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| From the Financial Times |
all that AND the Moon! Wonderful -
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