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Psychology

August 24th, 2006 Pari Ramblings No comments

When one mentions “psychology” the first thing that comes to mind for most people are names like Freud, Jung, etc.
Most Hindus may not be aware that psychology (if you can call it that) was explored also by Hindu sages a couple of millenniums before modern psychology. Though it really dealt less with relationships, and more [...]

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Economics

August 24th, 2006 Pari Ramblings No comments

Few people know that the first book on economics was the treatise “Arthashastra” by Chanakya back in around 300 BCE.
While “The Wealth of Nations” by Adam Smith (considered the “father of economics”), is a monumental work, so also is the Arthashastra – it is also a monumental work (and even more so since it was [...]

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Pesticide Cocktail

August 13th, 2006 Pari Health No comments

If Pepsi and Coke’s dumping waste in India, and Pepsi’s poisoning of agricultural land by chemical wash from its production plants was not enough (vast tracts of once very green land in Kerala have been turned into toxic wasteland).
The Pollution Monitoring Laboratory of CSE (Center for Science and Environment; India’s ISO9001:2000 certified labs, similar in [...]

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