I write here on various subjects including philosophy, Hinduism, Carvaka, education, relationships and anything that catches my fancy!
This story appears in Sambava Parva / Adi Parva of the great epic, Mahabharata. Sage Mandavya was sitting in deep meditation at the entrance of his hermitage at the foot…
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A new Day is Born! What do you propose to do with it? Let us see what Thomas Carlyle has to say about the Blue Day that is born in…
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In my diurnal perambulation (meant to say ‘morning walk’ – wanna make it high-sounding!), I see sprouting of some new shops, buildings changing shape and colour, weird signboards and some…
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I am a compulsive coffee drinker – the trait that I share with most Americans. Now that Starbucks is spreading in India, should try by favourite Cafe Latte when one…
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Yesterday (2014-05-04) would have been 85th birthday of Audrey Hepburn, the Belgian-born British actress. In spite of such negative attributes as being tall, lanky, skinny and wistful, she won the…
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I had written earlier about the mention of Ramanujan in the Hollywood movie, Good Will Hunting. This mention has now “piqued” a national award-winning film director Gnana Rajasekaran to make…
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This photo story that appeared in The Hindu on 9th March 2014 laments that, “Oblivious to the fact that March 8 was celebrated as International Women’s Day, a woman cooks…
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