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Rhododendrons at Tsazu I browse articles on entrepreneurial skills and things like ‘how small changes can improve your life considerably’ and one common advice I find is this: Early to bed and early to rise. This goes out even to people who say ‘but I am a night person’. The advice comes with this practical guide: set your alarm 30 minutes early. If you wake up at 6:30 am, then set it at 6 am. I think this advice is important because we follow Indian Standard time which is set in Allahabad. We might be 1 hour ahead of it. At 4:30 am, it is bright already here. We may be losing around 22,000 minutes per year of day light, which translates to 365 hours or 15 days approx. Bangladesh, which is west of us is ahead of us by 30 minutes! This advice is said to be for the busy person as well who never has enough time (and work into the night). There is hardly time to meditate or think of matters that matter eternally. I was also reading about the person who wrote the beau...

Today is World Health Day (April 7) and as I was coming home from work (early to attend a wedding), I began to think of this year 's theme: Depression. My mind went to those who suffer depression and I thought of my own life. A powerful phrase came to my mind and I had a supernatural experience as I was driving up Billy Graham road: ' The sweetness of faith '.  I'm so grateful that I have found and have been experiencing faith . It is not just a head belief but it also tastes sweet. Have you tasted it for yourself? It is not something which many other people agree upon and make sense and therefore you believe it, although that is a part of it. It is not a habit or ritual which is formed out of repetitive thought or practice, although those will definitely strengthen it. I can't quite describe it but if you have it, you will know what I mean, the sweetness of faith . You have to have it to know it. It is so sweet to know that there is a reason f...

In this month 2 years ago, my wife and I - then a newly married couple – took a trip to Kizari village to attend Mission Week program.     We knew the road till Lanye river beyond which we have not been. We took a turn from the highway and started on a small road which could easily end in someone’s paddy field. Therefore, it was such a relief to see this sign board which says ‘Way to Tizu Bridge, Tuzatse’. ‘Take the kaccha road just after the stone crusher. But as you reach a junction, don’t go all the way up to Lozaphuhu village, take the turn which leads to the Tizu River’ we were advised.    We reached a good stretch and along a bend, we stopped to take rest. As we looked back, this (photo) wa s the road we came from. I thought we would come back through this road, but that was not to be due to some unforeseen event which was to unfold. I wonder if we would cross this path again. But we will never do so again in the same s...