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Insightful newsletter of Drishtikone - Issue #78: Beauty and the Beast and Chinese Organ Trade

Beauty is good. Beast is evil. Existence is both. Manifestation of the infinite. Infinite that is Divine. Love one, shun another - then how does one embrace the existence or the divine? Those who define their activism by batting for the beast cannot shun the beauty. Just as those who

Insightful newsletter of Drishtikone - Issue #77: The Rage of Exclusivity

Spirituality is a seeking. A seeking which is leads one to the state of complete inclusivity or absolute dissolution. Either one attains to the state of the infinite or that of nothingness. In either states - the infinite and zero embrace each other. This journey of seeking does not indulge

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