Adit Negi

[Adit Negi @kupapanegi]

Always heard about a few people from Kinnaur either going to Lahore for Higher studies or going to Tibet for Buddhist studies, pre & post independence. But never met one until today, 'Pannam Tete' as my Dad calls him, had travelled to Tibet & stayed there in his teens & early 20s

[Adit Negi @kupapanegi]

Since a very long time ppl from Kinnaur have visited this place as a pilgrimage site, and have been going on a parikarma across the mountain to Chitkul as also mentioned in Jai Chand SP's song.

[Adit Negi @kupapanegi]

Rangrik Monastery, situated at more than 3600 meters above sea level & is entirely managed by Village Nuns (Jomo). Such a sweet feeling to be present here on this site which is more than 1000 years old & is still intact with all the ancient paintings & sculptures.

[Adit Negi @kupapanegi]

He narrates about how he went there for Higher studies (in Buddhism) & came back a year after the Dalai Lama took refuge. Fascinating max! from a 90 year old who's seen it all, wars, development & connectivity in our region.

[Adit Negi @kupapanegi]

Always heard about a few people from Kinnaur either going to Lahore for Higher studies or going to Tibet for Buddhist studies, pre & post independence. But never met one until today, 'Pannam Tete' as my Dad calls him, had travelled to Tibet & stayed there in his teens & early 20s

[Adit Negi @kupapanegi]

@kyang_himalaya @mahesh_ronseru Amazing!! 😍👌

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Photographs taken in the right place at the right time, intentionally or by chance - a thread 🧵

1. Wilma Hurskainen

[Adit Negi @kupapanegi]

@ChalchitraT
@knowkenny

[Kyang @kyang_himalaya]

पिछले दो दिन की बर्फ ने कई सालो मैं जो बर्फ नहीं देखी वो दिखाया हैं किसान आम आदमी , पशु सब के लिए ये बर्फ एक अच्छा संकेत हैं ।
गाँव ब्रेलिंगी में एक मार्च से दो मार्च कि बीच लगभग दो फीट बर्फ आई हैं , आपके वहाँ कितनी बर्फ हैं ?
#किन्नौर #kinnaur

[Mahesh Negi Ronseru @mahesh_ronseru]

I was birdwatching, as usual, and this time I planned it at the height of 9,900 ft in #Kinnaur.
While following a trail in the jungle, I noticed these marks. I'm sharing a comparison of the size of the marks with my hands on this #WorldWildlifeDay
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#Thread

[Adit Negi @kupapanegi]

Past Lives ❤️

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

When he was 19, Andre Agassi started losing his hair.

Deeply ashamed of his receding hairline, to hide it, Agassi started wearing a hairpiece.

Not long after, at the 1990 French Open, Agassi made it to his first Grand Slam final.

“The night before the final,” Agassi writes,

“Catastrophe strikes.”

As he was taking a shower, Agassi felt the hairpiece disintegrate in his hands. He summoned his brother, who was able to clip the hairpiece back together with 20 bobby pins.

The next morning, Agassi writes, “warming up before the match, I pray. Not for a win, but for my hairpiece to stay on…My tenuous hairpiece has me catatonic…With every lunge, every leap, I picture it landing on the clay. I can picture millions of people suddenly leaning closer to their TVs, turning to each other and in dozens of languages and dialects saying some version of: Did Andre Agassi’s hair just fall off?”

At times, he looks into the stands and sees fans sporting hairdos just like his. This only exacerbates his sense of shame. “I can’t imagine all these people trying to be like Andre Agassi,” he writes, “since I don’t want to be Andre Agassi.”

Because of this fixation on his hairpiece, though he was the heavy favorite, Agassi lost three sets to one.

After, his girlfriend, aware of the hairpiece catastrophe, says, “I think you should just get rid of that hairpiece.”

“Impossible,” Agassi replies, “I’d feel naked.”

“You’d feel liberated,” she says.

He thought it over for a few days: “I thought about the pain my hair has caused me, the hypocrisy and the pretending and the lying.”

And then he went back to his girlfriend, “Let’s do it…Let’s cut it all off.”

His first tournament with a bald head was another Grand Slam, the Australian Open, and, “I come out like the Incredible Hulk. I don’t drop one set in a take-no-prisoners blitz to the final.”

You were right, he told his girlfriend before the final, “my hairpiece was a shackle.”

In the final, he won three sets to one. “Everyone says it’s my best performance yet, because it’s my first victory over Pete [Sampras]. But I think twenty years from now I’ll remember it as my first bald victory.”

Takeaway 1:

In his book, in interviews, and in the documentary “Stutz,” the psychiatrist Phil Stutz talks about the Shadow.

“The easiest way to say it,” Stutz explains, “is that the Shadow is the part of yourself that you’re ashamed of…It’s a flawed part of yourself that you feel you have to hide and once you start to hide things, you become very sensitive to whether other people can see them or not. It becomes an obsession—How do they see me, what do they think of me, do they like me, love me?”

The more you try to hide what you’re ashamed of, as Agassi said, the more ashamed you feel.

“But the beauty is,” Stutz continues, “once you stop hiding it, you can relax and then you get flow. If you stop hiding your Shadow, if you stop hiding, you get flow. And that’s what everybody wants.”

After he stopped hiding his Shadow, Agassi got flow. He went on to win back-to-back Grand Slams and ended 1995 as the number one ranked tennis player in the world, replacing Pete Sampras who held the spot for eighty-two straight weeks.

Takeaway 2:

Keeping in mind that Agassi was so worried about what others would think or say about his shaved head, I went searching for what others thought or said after he shaved his head.

All I could find was a passing mention in a 1995 Washington Post piece (“The wild mane of hair he sported at the tournament last season has been replaced with his new no-nonsense buzz cut.”)

It made me think of a line from the philosopher Seneca, who writes in a letter titled On Groundless Fears: “We suffer more in our imagination more often than in reality.”

In his head, Agassi thought people would think or say nasty things about him.

In reality, no one really cared.

- - -

“The most precious thing we have in life is time, so any time you spend worrying about something, get rid of it.” — Andre Agassi

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[Adit Negi @kupapanegi]

Get what you want & not what you need and vice versa.

[Adit Negi @kupapanegi]

It's interesting to see the idea of Love in the new romcoms, addressing the confusion & the act of not Kissing between characters.

[Adit Negi @kupapanegi]

Went to Lucknow as a kid, heard Mom talk about 'चिकन की कढ़ाई', got excited for the meal. Only to realise that Chikan & Chicken are different.

[Bashir Badr @BashirBadra]

वही शहर है वही रास्ते वही घर है और वही लान भी
मगर उस दरीचे से पूछना वो दरख़त अनार का क्या हुआ

मेरे साथ जुगनू है हमसफ़र मगर इस शरर की बिसात क्या
ये चराग़ कोई चराग़ है न जला हुआ न बुझा हुआ

#BashirBadr

[Adit Negi @kupapanegi]

Artists support Artists, 'I belong here' felt so strong today! Grateful. 🌸🙏

[Preity G Zinta @realpreityzinta]

This picture was taken on the first day on the set of Dil Se. I was so excited to be working with Mani Ratnam sir & Shah Rukh Khan. When Mani sir saw me he smiled and politely asked me to wash my face…. But sir… my make up will come off, I said smiling …. That’s exactly what I want… Pls wash your face…. He smiled back. I thought he was joking …. Then I realised he was not !!! So thanks to the amazing Santosh Sivan ( our Director of Photography) I filmed with a freshly washed face and got away with it 🎥🤩🙏 I guess he shot me Dil Se ❤️ #throwbackthursday #Dilse #Memories #Ting

[Adit Negi @kupapanegi]

'उद्‌गम', जिये हुए को फिर वैसे जीना तो मुमकिन नहीं, मगर उसका एहसास उन चेहरों और उस जगह पर रह ही जाता है।

अभी 'थ्री ऑफ अस' देखने के बाद ऐसा आभास हुआ मानो जैसे कुछ आगे ढूंढ रहें हों और वह पीछे कहीं छूटा हुआ है।

[Adit Negi @kupapanegi]

@SaharaBilantu Mera bhi nahi hai waise

[Adit Negi @kupapanegi]

It's The Digital age "yahaan har koi akela hai". I remember watching 'Men, Women & Children' long back which I think was a prelude to the Film 'Kho Gaye Hum Kahaan'. An affective & relatable story of our times, keeps you engaged through & through.