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Desh Kapoor

Desh Kapoor

Seeker. Searching. Exploring. Indiscriminately chronicling his times.

International Yoga Day: Controversies, responses and Why Yoga?

International Yoga Day: Controversies, responses and Why Yoga?

With so many different types of yoga [https://thefitbrit.co.uk/different-types-of-yoga-uk-guide/], it’s no surprise that it has an international day dedicated to it. It has been shown to have amazingly positive effects on both your body and general wellbeing. And wellbeing has nothing to do with your belief

Religious Brouhaha over Yoga Day and Ray of Hope from the Indian Orthodox Church

The hallucinating “greatness” of belief, any belief, is just a stone’s throw away from complete oblivion. For, a belief is only as long as your memory is. A hit by a stone on your head can take away the belief, the god, the prophet, and god’s kith and

Breath-taking Natural Wonders: Natural Hot Travertine pools of Pamukkale, Turkey

This is fourth in the series. Continuing with the Breath-taking Natural Wonders series, we now go to hot springs of Pamukkale, Turkey. This is a place where I would love to go with my wife, Archana. Pamukkale (pah-MOOK-kah-leh) in Turkey is natural mineral-bath spa with hot calcium laden waters cascading

9 Pioneering Ways Parsis have Shaped Modern India

9 Pioneering Ways Parsis have Shaped Modern India

Parsi in the Persian language literally means – Persian. But wait, isn’t the language Persian Farsi? Sure it is, but it wasn’t so to begin with. This distorted name of the language Farsi is the gift of the Arabs. The Arabic language lacks the P / G / Zh / Ch sounds,

Indian-American kids win 8th straight Spelling Bee in a row despite racist slurs

We, the Indian-Americans, are just 1% of the whole US population. Yet officially, we own nearly [http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2012/06/11/why-indian-americans-dominate-the-u-s-motel-industry/] 50% of all motels in the US (could be more!). We are the most educated in the country out of all the ethnicities – 71% have

Piecing together a 435,000 years old Murder Mystery…

Murder is as old to human kind as human being is. Different cultures have had different views on murder. There was once a time and some cultures where murder was more easily tolerated [https://books.google.com/books?id=Kr3P4bolLOAC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false]

काव्य संग्रह “चटकते कांच-घर”: एक अवलोकन

शब्द और दर्शन एक कवि की अभिव्यक्ति के सबसे महत्वपूर्ण सहयोगी होते हैं। अमित अग्रवाल जी की यह काव्य संग्रह “चटकते कांच-घर” उनके मन की संवेदना का एक दर्पण