has left the house.
We should introduce an award for her.
A joint one with Ina
Ina visited every year over ten, Maïlis has created a new record — a total of nine months over two years.
Maïlis was also here in 2025 to say farewell to Lucie on her last day.
Maïlis it’s been an absolute joy having you become part of our Mysore family.
Thank you for being you and being with us and we look forward to your return in 2027.
Byeee
After staying with us in 2025 and 2026
Initially here for yoga conference she soon branched out to all sorts of activities — stone carving, chanting, Kannada and Sanskrit — she returns to France next month to continue her studies to become a doctor.
She’s a great example of why we do this. Making new friends from India and around the world and together doing good in our community.
She’s joined our ‘family’ in so many ways. Probably the most important is how she helps us with Kaveri.
Kaveri is one of the young people we support in the community. She stays with us alternate weeks and Maïlis has been her chaperone this year. Ensuring that each evening and night there’s a woman available also staying who can guide, support Kaveri and generally available to help ensure she’s happy and safe.
We’re asking our women friends if they can help us and become a chaperone, like Maïlis. That’s being here and staying overnight when Kaveri does. It doesn’t pay but there’s somewhere to stay and sometimes a meal to share, most importantly you’re making an important contribution.
You can get involved as little or as much as you can.
Want to find out more? Help us broaden Kaveri’s horizons through the diverse people she meets.
We’ve shifted from enlightenment street (Moksha Marga) to
Yes, she’s most definitely with us
Images of MAnjula are all around the house, as is her memory wall,
Billet-Doux and messengers.
and her latest portrait from our favourite artist
And lots of Mangoes
Helping us connect with our new community
…
We’re at
https://maps.app.goo.gl/eyHFxUAiRUaQd7RW8?g_st=ic
The mouthful of our actual address is…
No. 179, 10th Cross, 2nd Main, Gokulam 3rd stage, Mysore – 570002
Climbing trees
Finding and moving house
Looking after Kaveri
Shopping
Welcoming Guests
Eating
Activity
Tolerance
Robustness
Nursing
Holidaying
Mango cropping, making Lassi and clearing up afterwards
Thank you Sowbhagya
Aged twelve on the 3rd May
Present shopping
Girls passing on Barbie – tips and skills
Baby time, Radhika’s
The traditional cake sharing
Stepdad
Into the new house.
Shifting Manjula’s library to our new house. The team were fab.
Manjula loved the joke
After acknowledging a job well done —— we realised the light switch was trapped behind the shelves.
Celebrating later at home.
Factoid
We opened Manjula’s library after her spirit left for its search.
She’d joked that my constantly bringing books home would lead to her setting up the house as a library when I stop guiding tours at age 75.
So as we never reached there together I set it up in her memory
And now it’s the first bit to establish itself at the new house.
I’ll be reducing the clutter.
By next season (October 2026 onwards) we will be in a new home.
It’ll prove to be challenging — leaving the home that I shared with MAnjula, that we created together. But it’s a positive change and MAnjula would approve.
We’ll continue to share our home with our community from around the world and new friends who find us.
A first step will be to reduce the ‘clutter’ here at home.
Already friends have been eager to pick souvenirs from our home. Furniture, paintings, and Knickknacks as their mementoes.
We continue to invite our community of guests and visitors to spot things they’d like.
Soon I’ll start posting specific things that are available to buy.
So …
For details of our new home and things that may become available.
Or contact me with your requests.
A light wavered.
It didn’t go out as she’s very much with me.
Today on the fifth anniversary of losing her —- physically yes —- but not in any other way.
We remember Manjula
A meal is prepared including all her favourite things.
We offer it to her and by praying to her God we help her spirit find her way to the next incarnation.
Another tree bites the dust without any heavy rain or wind but it’s the one next to it they were proposing to cut down
Here’s evidence, if we needed it:
1 the current team failed to spot which tree would fall next, their approach is random
2 in any case, it’s difficult to predict which trees will fall but it’s impossible without some expertise
3 we need some expert knowledge, supervision and accountability to target which trees are fundamentally weak and stop the unnecessary felling of trees
I have no idea where the railing is there. It’s not managed.
You’d be correct in assuming it’s to celebrate MAnjula and help more people meet her.
It’s also ..
.. because it’s life affirming and fun.
… meeting new lovely lively people,
what’s not to like?
Thank you to our latest new friends from near Barcelona (one of my favourite cities) for spending time here and we getting to know you….
… that’s Martina, Jana, Marta and Angel
Me and MYCycle 