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Today is August 15th. India’s Independence Day. Many years back when I was in school, I went up to my father and asked - “on August 14th, you all must have been so happy, right?” He simply blasted me. “Several thousands were already dead and many were dying. Which

How would India’s history have been different if it had information on the ways, workings, battles and the powers that were battling it out in Europe, Middle East and China? Would India’s response and preparation have been different to the Islamic invaders and the Mongols? Would a proactive

Mind interprets. It doesn’t experience anything truly. Even an experience has to go through the interpretive process fashioned by the limitations of the mind. Mind’s interpretative experience does not escape the confines of the mind’s quarters. What is being said by the other is not what is

Wishing everyone a very Happy Janmashtami! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Just as the sublime and amazing perfume of a fragrant rose enters your being and you cannot help but fall in love with it intimately, Krishna’s presence was probably like that. In all my understanding of this amazing being, I have always

On October 21st, 2010 a very strange seminar was going on in Delhi and no one even questioned the whole scenario. Arundhati Roy, Delhi University professor S.A.R. Geelani, Jammu and Kashmir University professor Sheikh Showkat Hussain, activist (and seditionist/Urban Naxal) Varavara Rao, activist Sujato Bhadra and writer

What if I died today and was disembodied? Would that release from the body provide me with a perspective that is different? What will I encounter? These are questions that many have. Some amongst us have had a strange experience - of Near-Death. The system stopped functioning - brain dead