“…true purpose is found in giving yourself one hundred percent to every moment, rather than having to do with any kind of achievement.” ~ Richard Rudd December begins slowly this year, a bit like the sun peeping out from behind heavy grey skies, promising to shine after the rain. Bangalore has been cold and wet; the gloomy skies making it hard to stay with practices, hard to go to the gym, hard to do very much at all if I’m honest. If that resonates, well, like many of you, I

Earlier this month, I spent a few days in Ooty with family, breathing in the minty eucalyptus air of the Nilgiri hills. It was delightfully nippy all week, with bursts of bright warm sunshine spilling out of a rich azure sky studded with rainclouds in the mornings, rain pouring through every afternoon in a steady silver stream. All that generous rain this year has turned the lush hilly landscape alive with colour, flowers growing in profusion everywhere you look. Every garden