VISA, STICKERS AND OTHER MATTERS OF THE SOUL
VISA, STICKERS AND OTHER MATTERS OF THE SOUL LOM HARSHNI CHAUHAN
Visa, Stickers and Other Matters of the Soul is a charming personal account of a mother’s efforts to inculcate the values of Indian culture and spirituality while bringing up her daughter as a global citizen.
Thus it was that as I rocked my little baby to sleep, I often wondered what I should give her: a mind conditioned towards the accepted societal concept of God, or a blank mind that would make its own opinions once older.’
One of the major concerns of Indian parents is how best to pass on to their children the time-honoured traditions of Indian culture and spirituality, even as they try to raise global citizens.
Visa, Stickers and Other Matters of the Soul is a delightful and endearing account of a young mother’s experiments with raising her daughter in the Indian spiritual way while living in atheist China. As she begins to educate her daughter, she is surprised by her daughter’s sense of understanding and realizes that parenting is her biggest life lesson, with her daughter as her teacher.
LOM HARSHNI CHAUHAN
Lom Harshni Chauhan is from the Himalayan town of Shimla, India. She has been living in China since 2002, and has worked in both India and China in higher education and corporate learning and development. She has also run an NGO in south west China. She believes living is a skill and that all skills can be learnt. She likes to explore cultures and in that quest, attempted learning Guzheng, a Chinese folk instrument. She gave that up when Kyra, her six-year-old daughter, started playing better than her and is now concentrating on improving her Mandarin instead. Lom is also a swing dancer and Kyra is yet to catch up with her. Lom studied philosophy at the university founded by one of the foremost spiritual figures of modern India. In the twenty years since she graduated from the ashram’s University, and especially since her motherhood, Lom has been experimenting with the practical application of the spiritual lessons received from her Guru which has resulted in this book.