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About Me

Kuli: well travelled, well loved, ambitious, creative, fearless, romantic, intellectual, adept, liberal, considerate, educated and idealistic...an aspiring servant of the servants of God, oh and humble too ;)

My Interests

God Consciousness;Reading- in particular anything that combines psychology, history, philosophy and politics.Writing- movies, plays, stories, poetry, travelTravel- Istanbul, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Cairo, Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Rome, Berlin, Atlanta, New York, Miami, LA, Amsterdam, Vancouver, London, Edinbourough, Cardiff, Mumbai, KolkataActivities: Horses- training crack headed horses that like to run too much; skiing; yoga; clubbing; house parties; bhajans (newly aquired); walking through cities; racing; videogames; conversations; wine bars (Gordons in London);

I'd like to meet:

I'll know when I meet you.

Music:

Nitin Sawhney; Siddharta by Ravin; George Harrison; Cheb i Sabbah; Black Eyed Peas; Ghetto Boys; The Pharcyde; Ghost Brothers; Cold Play; The Killers; Snoop Dogg; Karnamrita; Gauravani; One Way; Mozart; Wyclef;

Movies:

Emperor, by Kapila Monet--- coming soon; Gladiator; Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon; Pulp Fiction; 50 First Dates; One Fine Day; Cyrano de Bergerac; Amelie; Leon; La Femme Nikita; City of God; Gone With the Wind; Devdas; Austin Powers; Quest for the Holy Grail; Wedding Crashers; Dumb and Dumber; Othello; Usual Suspects; Moulin Rouge; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; Clockwork Orange; Fight Club; The Great Dictator; Zoolander; Ong Bak

Television:

Black Adder; Fawlty Towers; Rome

Books:

Must read: Shantaram, by Gregory David Roberts; Indaba my Children, by Credo Mutwa; Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky; Anna Karenina, by Tolstoy; Bhagavad Gita As it Is, by AC Bhaktivedanta Swami; Mahabharata, version by Subramaniam; Julian, by Gore Vidal; Don Quixote, by Cervantes; Stalin the Court of the Red Tsar, by Simon Sebag Montefiore; The Gardens of Light, by Amin Maslouf; The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell; The Wisdom of Crowds, by James Surowiecki; A Suitable Boy, by Vikram Seth; Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson; Brief History of Infinity by Brian Clegg It's hard to imagine, but out of the thousands of books I've read, these trully stand out and have changed my understanding of myself and the world.

Heroes:

Srimati Radharani; Srila Prabhupada; Yudhistir; Ghengis Khan; Akbar; Augustus; Suleyman; Tecumseh; Trudeau; Newton; Leibnitz; Plato, Socrates; Bakunin; D'Arcy; Cyrano de Bergerac and Rani

My Blog

Various expressions of a mind evoked by Immortality and thoughts of love squeezed by Kundera

Nothing you say can shake the love I feelNothing you do can break the love I feelNothing you feel can confuse the love I feelNothing is this love I feel unless echoed I have not hurt youBut I have sca...
Posted by Kapila on Thu, 24 May 2007 03:34:00 PST

My religious beliefs

It seems at least I believe and know my own religious beliefs :) I wouldn't be surprised if half the people who think they believe something would actually find out they believe s...
Posted by Kapila on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:44:00 PST

Life will cheat you

A credit to the wise, silence. But in such silence the seekers may falter. It is for the poet to thus inspire with words and bluster that touch on truth but raise no higher and pr...
Posted by Kapila on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:50:00 PST

The Flip

A coin toss Landing onA knife edge Fear.. Flashing siteBut will itLand alright? Anticipation.. And fallenwill it thenbe settled? Hope. The flip isjust one pointbefore another. Flow....
Posted by Kapila on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 12:43:00 PST

Vaccine

Sometimes it is quite apparent that each preceding strand of shadowed love conditions a potent immune reaction to the circumstance of loss of love and the torment of this diminished reaction far excee...
Posted by Kapila on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 03:23:00 PST

What is, is.

I am seeking a new experience, a new expression, a new identity of love. I have reliquished those films and stories that defined me. They no longer speak to me. But their residual hold ask...
Posted by Kapila on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 08:11:00 PST

Running

Running as if in movement one can disappear. Adjacent to contact was the dual impression: Cuddle or flight. Stop running: Embrace this power, magic, purpose. Love: Is there really a dou...
Posted by Kapila on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 05:31:00 PST

Kulimela DVD Release and New Events

KULIMELA future events and dvd release. (Kuli - family, community, or tribe; Mela gathering) Kulis commit themselves to a number of initiatives following the success of the first Kulimela event he...
Posted by Kapila on Sat, 25 Nov 2006 03:03:00 PST

Uncertainty

I remember coming out of high school thinking to myself, the world is just a vast empty black void.... no plan, no insight into the future, no idea what happens next or how I fit in. Then I was off to...
Posted by Kapila on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 06:36:00 PST

To all the athiests

Let me help clarify my position. I am not so interested in the how, as the why, of human experience. Whether it is evolution or creation, physics or magic, the necessary knowledge is not r...
Posted by Kapila on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 06:18:00 PST