In just the last two years I’ve seen five people suffering from depression (three depressed, two semi-depressed). Just listening to them, got me wondering, is depression just a very deep calling towards spirituality, i.e. to shake you out of falling repeatedly into the trap of maya. And your running, and your running, and your running [...]
Just thought I’d blog these editorials which seem to have gotten buried in the media frenzy: India’s Antiterror Blunders – Wall Street Journal Why India is a Target – Yahoo News Calling All Pakistanis – New York Times, Thomas Friedman
Hindus have been doing this for ages. In Tamil it’s called thōpukaranam (தோப்புக்கரணம்). This is a typical ritual when praying to Ganesha (God in the form of “Remover of Obstacles” and “Purveyor of Knowledge”). Yet another spiritual technology expropriated from Hindus and inducted into science.In addition, the exercise has been used as punishment (by teachers [...]
When you think about it, nearly half our body construction have come into being just to lug around a huge baggage of a digestive tract – which itself is just sloppily packed into our belly. Not to mention the inefficiency (waste vs energy and nutrients extracted).Compare that with the efficiency of plants – light-energy directly [...]
Tarkovsky asked by interviewer on the topic of “being alone”: What would you like to tell young people? Learn to love solitude, to be more alone with yourselves. The problem with young people is they’re carrying out noisy and aggressive action not to feel lonely. And this is a sad thing. The individual must learn [...]
Have you ever stopped to think about where all those disposal ballpoints end up? Would you even dare to count the number of ballpoints you’ve lost? I’ve seen tens of packs of ballpoints being restocked in the supply cabinet all the time where I work. Where do they all end up? landfills obviously (or in [...]
While Malcom-X makes some pretty strong speeches, his core ideology turns me off. This little talk by him gives it in a nutshell: There’s nothing in our book, the Quran — you call it “Ko-ran” — that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the [...]
There’s this fear among Indians that India is being heavily influenced by western pop-culture. Where “western pop-culture” seems to imply everything that is bad or “sinful” (night clubs, dancing, partying, night life, drinking, dating, kissing in public, pre-marital sex,…). Regardless of how “sinful” this western influence is, my question is to what extent is this [...]
-->What is it about Madurai that I keep coming back to it? Why? Madurai is by no means anything rosy — like anything in India, it has its share of contrasting realities and harsh ironies – from the quaint obliviousness to the concept of etiquette (like awaiting your turn in queues!) to the more ugly [...]
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 [...]