I wrote one blog post. No newsletter edition.
I am currently reading/listening to:
I watched the following on OTT:
I watched a lot of YouTube this week. I am not able to watch so many videos.
I missed sending out Weekly Notes 16/2023, as I was not well.
I wrote one blog post.
I wrote one newsletter edition.
I am currently reading/listening to:
Ranveer Allahbadia did a recent interview with Acharya Prashant in Hindi, titled Forgotten Hinduism. Ranveer tries to talk to Acharya about hot takes and it takes time for him to reach the point about the question of whether the Hinduism we practice today Vedic?
Acharya Prashant says that the Hinduism we practise today is not Vedantic. He says that the Hinduism we practise today involves praying to Puranic Gods following Tantric rituals and methods.
He defines the periods from an average of 2000 B.C.E. He refers to the period from second to eight century CE is the Puranic period.
He says that we no longer pray to Vedic gods (like Indra, Varun etc.). He claims that worship in the Vedic era was mostly the worship of the natural phenomena. He claim that Vedic worship did not have the concept of idol worship and does not involve temple worship.
He suggests that Vedic practice begins with reading a few suggested Upanishads and books by the Adi Shankara.
After the initial reading on Indian philosophy, this is what I plan to start reading this year. I may not read it all in two months like the Acharya suggests, but I will read through these after I begin with the Mandukya Upanishad.
Writing at work was good.
I wrote a blog post on the tree walk I went with my daughter.
I wrote the 50th edition of my space newsletter, since July 2019.
I read/listened to:
I did not cycle nor play badminton because of a muscle spasm in the back.
I watched:
Soviet Rocket Engines
P Sainath
What does a Quantum Computer look like?
IndieWeb
My daughter and I went for a Tree Walk in Camp, Pune on 26 March 2023. This follows the star party that we went together for.
We travelled to Camp by car and parked opposite Bishop’s school in Camp. We met with the group of about 10 people who had also come there. After a brief round of introductions, we started the walk.
The main thrust of the walk was not to make us overnight experts on all things trees. It was to get us to look at the trees in our surroundings with more curiosity. Learn how they transform through the seasons. How to identify them using the Internet and thereafter, by yourself. Observe how they flower and grow.
I tried to get my daughter to climb one of the trees but she was afraid to go more than a couple of feet off the ground. She collected a lot of fallen flowers, fruits, berries, etc. Being the youngest in the group, she got the attention of many others in the group, who helped her collect these things.
I did not follow all the tree related guidance too closely.
I have been enjoying the tree-related articles on The Marginalian. I also enjoyed the theme of trees when listening to Richard Powers’ The Overstory.
Writing at work was good.
I wrote the newsletter, Pradeep’s Space Newsletter #49. 49 posts since July 2019.
I read/listened to:
I had a back injury. This allowed me just two days of playing badminton this week.
The same meant that no cycling got done either.
Another week where most of the writing was focused on work. I did not get any other writing done.No blog posts. No newsletter post.
I read/listened to:
I got back to playing badminton this week. I got the badminton racket gutted again.
I got no cycling done this week.
I delivered a lot of writing work this week. Left me in a high. But, this did not overflow to other writing. No blog posts. No newsletter. No other writing.
I watched:
I read/listened:
I am probably going to focus on one and not on both. I stopped the badminton middle of this week. I am going to focus on cycling.
I cycled for a day for about 11.3 km.
Focus continued to stay on work related writing this week. I hope to complete and deliver many of these in the next week.
I managed to write one blog post:
I managed to also send out one edition of Pradeep’s Space Newsletter:
I wrote one post on my Tumblr, Working Column:
This week’s writing was not of the quality that I would have preferred but means that I shipped content.
I watched:
I am reading/listening to:
Another week of no cycling.
Played badminton on all days save one.
Parallel Spirals 