Once upon a time, there lived an angry lion in the Garhwal region of North India. No one knew why the lion was angry. Anyone who crossed his path was killed. It seemed as if terrible death herself had taken a form and descended upon the earth. His terror was spread across all the…
I was at the picturesque beach of Puri, looking out to the ocean. It was late afternoon and the beach was relatively empty of people. A couple of families were around and they were taking refuge from the afternoon sun by playing with the ocean waves coming in. I was sitting under the shade…
Last week, a friend suggested that I should watch a debate between Javed Akhtar and Tarek Fatah that happened recently. The debate is available here. During the discussion, Javed Akhtar raised a point about the Ashwamedh and said it is not practical that similar to our past, India will leave a horse in Nepal…
The boy’s name was Santiago. This is how the one of the greatest books published in our times begins. A fable about following your destiny and finding fulfilment. In short, the story is about Santiago going on a quest to find a treasure. He crosses continents and a desert, falls in love, meets an…
This is a jar – It is made of clay – Can we conclude that the jar exists even when the jar is not manifested, solely on the basis of existence of the clay? In this piece I will try to examine this proposition. Subsequently, we will try to learn whether you or me…
Recently, I was reminded of this story about events and their meaning. I had first come across this story a few years ago in a course called A Life of Happiness and Fulfilment on Coursera. Brilliant course to say the least. Dr. Rajagopal Raghunathan has got happiness to a science and I really think…
1920 – Dwyer Stakes Duel “For just a second there loomed the possibility of the horse of the century meeting defeat. It was a rather sickening thought to those who had raised this colt to a pedestal. The same crowd would have hailed a new champion in the next breath.” – New York Times, 1920*…
Throughout history, remarkable individuals have devoted their lives and intellect to progressing human thought and deepening our understanding of existence. They pursued questions that seem eternal—What is life? Why are we here? What is the nature of reality? Across Eastern and Western traditions, such thinkers have emerged—luminaries who wrestled with these questions and shared…
As it happens with life, your quest, the secret dream you had – something that you thought of as the purpose of your existence – gets lost in the day to day minutiae of life itself. Quite a few times it so happens that by the time you get back to that dream it…