The flight of the hummingbird

A flitting hummingbird moving from flower to flower, but in a brief time having the ability to absorb the nectar from the flower and illuminate the surroundings with a melodious hum and graceful beauty, is the image that resonates with my life the most.

I have been blessed with a life that has taken me places across the world, and like the proverbial hummingbird I have been able to assimilate the learnings from a wide swath of associations and experiences.

A life established in religion and spirituality, my upbringing always inspired me to celebrate the conversations of the “why”, the “what”, and the “how”.

My academic and work-life led me on the path of life sciences and Biotechnology. I lived and worked across the US, India, and Germany and spent years understanding and collaborating with brilliant thinkers and scientific minds. This gave me a scientific temperament and the muscle to seek logical explanations for everything. While my scientific career gave me tremendous intellectual satisfaction, I yearned to go deeper to understand this life. This led me to study the scriptures of the timeless Eastern civilization — the Srimad Bhagawad Geeta, Upanishads, Yoga, Ayurveda, and music — only to find that everything is interrelated and the goal of all these paths is Self-actualization, an awakening to an experience of Bliss that is in each one of us.

A mother of two young boys, and having lived and worked across three continents for two decades, I have been inclined to go back and study our scriptures, to find the connection between human well-being and the knowledge and wisdom of the ages. It is this quest that has drawn me to create a platform where we can all come together to discuss, learn, share, and collaborate — the common hum of hummingbirds in one place, partaking in the nectar of knowledge and resonating as one with the universe.