Bollywood and Krishan Chopra....

... have probably my first contacts to India.

So - as often in my life - two very different aspects of one wonderful country. Then again, India has so much more sides in itself, that it does probably not signify.

My love for Bollywood Musicals was mainly initiated by accident. I saw one film on a - very - rainy sunday. And I hung on. It was fun, it was colourful, it melodious and ther was a lot of drama. It took three hours, because there was quite a lot of advertisement in between. But it was all of the above. So I watched the next one and the next, also the ones afterwards. I have even watched some in cinema. And I have som on DVD.

But beside all that I liked, there were the traditions and rites and holidays they had, Diwali for instance. And the clothes and food as well. so I was hooked on many levels. These days I do not have a TV-Set, but I watch the DVDs. And still like them a lot.

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Krishan Chopra, the fater of Deepak Chopra was found by a different way of accident. I was very much into selfhelp-books about a lot of things. One of them was healthy living and so I found one of his books. It was quite interesting, I never parted with it (which means, that I never put it in my cellar, but kept it in my flat).

Now I have a book of the son: Perfect health, because he explains some things about the doshas, helps to find ones Dosha and then explains about what to eat and what to take care of.

And he writes well as well. I have only glimpsed so far.

Other than that: I have finished "Dying to be me" and learned a lot more. I wrote, that it inspired me to try Ayurveda, because she tried it. It did not heal, but it gave her balance and I like a good balance. Somewhere inside me, ther is a libra, warring with the virgo. So balance is important. For the libra of course, but for the virgo also, as we virgo love things orderly or some such thing. At least I love to have some method in my life.

Which means, since it is late already, this is the end of this post... :-)