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Insightful newsletter of Drishtikone - Issue #76: Loneliness and the Oneness

Relationships occur when awareness of self is deficient. The importance of relationships in one’s life underscores the depth of ignorance of her/his self that one has. This self. This being. This piece of life is complete. It is at once the atom and the cosmos. The wave that

Insightful newsletter of Drishtikone - Issue #75: Democracy and Abstractions

Proximity engages our humanity. Distance engages us with aggregates. There is a fear of unknown in the aggregates and abstractions but as soon as we come closer and to specifics we become more human, more engaging. Riots and massacres, you see, are always caused by mobs against a group of

Is democracy dead?

Is democracy dead?

In the Annual predictions for 2018 [https://www.drishtikone.com/annual-predictions-for-india-pakistan-and-the-us-for-2018/], we had said that by the end of that year, credible voices will start asking if “Democracy is really relevant” anymore. Given the spate of books that have come out recently by mainstream voices, the question that needs to

Insightful newsletter of Drishtikone - Issue #68: look through the window and celebrate the world

Long time ago, before the onset of the pandemic, one fine morning while I was driving to the office I looked out of the car while waiting at a traffic light. The weather was beautiful and temperate - the kind I would have loved to play cricket in when I

Insightful newsletter of Drishtikone – Issue #67: Be a Vishnu

Insightful newsletter of Drishtikone – Issue #67: Be a Vishnu

Worship is a worthless act. Prayer is the work of a spiritual idiot. The gods we create. Those, who we put on a mental pedestal and weave stories around them – usually “male” (what a dastardly conspiracy) are mere placebos that many cannot do without. Maharishi Vasistha shared the wise words

Insightful newsletter of Drishtikone - Issue #67: Be a Vishnu

Worship is a worthless act. Prayer is the work of a spiritual idiot. The gods we create. Those, who we put on a mental pedestal and weave stories around them - usually “male” (what a dastardly conspiracy) are mere placebos that many cannot do without. Maharishi Vasistha shared the wise

Xinjiang capital – Urumqi – goes into ‘War-time’ Mode

Xinjiang capital – Urumqi – goes into ‘War-time’ Mode

There is something afoot. One of its Urumqi, the capital of China’s far western region of Xinjiang – the province where the Uighurs were has gone into “wartime mode” and launched an emergency response plan after the city reported 16 new coronavirus cases on Friday. Just 16 cases and war-time