These are some of the things that make me happy and keep me in tune with myself.

There is nothing more I enjoy than sitting on a deep cushion, with a hot cup of filter coffee (I love coffee) and chatting with a friend about life.

I am a reader, and read as much as I possibly can and enjoy reading all kinds of things though I am a little partial towards non fiction and spiritual poetry.

I enjoy walks in the Himalays, going through villages and just watching people go about their lives, the simplicity of life has always amazed me, how we clutter our lives with so many things that we dont need becomes glaringly clear when one watches the simple village life.

Photography is another thing that I enjoy and take as my pictures as I possibly can, long drives with the windows down and music playing, heaven ! Visiting places of historic interest have always fasinated me and the first thing that I look up in a new place that I visit is the ruins of old forts and palaces and then ofcourse the museums.

Collecting antiques, silver, porcelain, jewellery, books and works of art done by upcoming artists, though I dont like abstract too much untill I can feel it as the artist intends it to be.

Cooking is something that I enjoy and find de-stressing and much to the horror of the kitchen staff am in the kitchen nearly everyday, I am also working on writting a cookbook on the foods of Kutlehar.

As it is such an integral part of our lives, I enjoy designing jewellery, and needless to say most of the time things from our collection are subjected to my 'artistic whims' I must add though that I never touch the major pieces or the pieces of historic intrest.

For a long time my friend, Sonali kept telling me about the joys of surfing the net and chatting online, eventually when I did listen to her and got on line, I can hardly get off, and can now sometimes be online for hours at a strech.

Gardening is something that my English friend Jane Perkins introduced me to, before that all that I knew were names of everyday flowers and tress, she introduced me to the wonderful feeling that one gets with ones hands in the mud.

Another thing which has come to mean much to me, but I started it late is writting. I like to write about philosophy, self improvement, spiritual poetry, among other things.