Category Archives: Philosophy

The Buddhism Post

Posted on 01/06/2015 by Anu M

I had done this set of posts starting on Buddha Purnima on tumblr but it’s taken me till now to collate it on WP.  In some ways posts are more coherent on WP so despite the delay here it is.  … Continue reading →

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On Clothes

Posted on 06/08/2014 by Anu M

Now and then i think of the underlying philosophy of clothes and how markedly this differs from country to country but haven’t sat down to pen a deeper piece.  So I have kind of relied on extracts as preliminary thoughts. … Continue reading →

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