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There are some questions which can be answered with a simple “Aye” or “Nay.” There are others that can’t be. The latter give rise to zillions of bytes of rhetoric, and consume reams of newsprint -- to explore the grey area and/or attempt to decipher traces of “black” or “white” in it... Whether profit-seeking is a moral act or not, is one such question… More so, because in our present, intricately inter-related state of affairs, harmonisation of approaches is imperative for the sustainable development of all communities and societies.
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Life-Culture
By G VENKATESH Meat, fish and fowl are food for a vast majority of Homo Sapiens. They are also embellishments on the ...
By ABHA IYENGAR This is what the things can teach us: To fall Patiently to trust our heaviness Even a bird has to ...
By RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives. For a host of reasons. Yet, the real ...
By G VENKATESH Summertime in Trondheim, Norway, where I live, is as lively as winter is dreary. In winter, the trees ...
By G VENKATESH It was a cold winter morning in Glasgow. I had flown in from Oslo, with my wife, for ...
G VENKATESH Johannesburg, Jo'burg, or Jozi. This was the first foreign city I visited and stayed in. At the age of ...
By G VENKATESH Choti choti bathon ki hain yaadein badi [Little incidents leave behind abiding memories], so crooned the plaintive-voiced Mukesh, ...
By PETER MURRAY Decking choices are many: they include mahogany, composites, and plastics. However, the much-favoured choice, based on durability, or ease ...
By ABHA IYENGAR During my recent visit to Mumbai, I boarded a local train at Churchgate Station. As I stepped into ...
By RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR For so long as they lived -- over eighty-eight, and ninety-two, summers of their remarkable existence -- my ...
By BADRINATH DURVASULA "A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every passerby leaves a mark." True to the ...
By PETER MURRAY Think of summer -- not by just devising a unique spot in the patio for summer-time dining and entertaining, ...
By PETER MURRAY Get the light right, not because landscape lighting makes it easy and safe for you to amble through ...
Pot-Pourri
Message In A BottleGuess whose spirit — if at all it’s possible — is cock-a-hoop at the present time? You got it right. Nostradamus, the famed mediaeval seer, the man who saw tomorrow… even before it came… never ever, and never after.
Children's Upanishabd
Appa’s Fountain PenTo me, the pen was symbolic of Appa’s blessings. To him, it was just another pen. But, perhaps, he knew what I felt about it, in his heart of hearts.
Looking Glass
Horse WorshipHorses have been deified in many parts of the world. In the Japanese Shinto temples a sacred horse was maintained. Roman historian Tacitus records that in some parts of Northern Europe snow-white horses were reared at a sacred grove and never used for riding. When the king or the priest yoked them to the sacred chariot, their neighing and snorting were carefully observed and the will of God inferred from it… Many cultures believed that white horses knew the plans of the heavenly powers. The druids, as also the Persian magi, were said to practice divination by means of white horses.
Science-Spirituality
A Karmayogi Called EinsteinI just finished reading Ronald Clark’s Einstein: Life And Times. It was a birthday gift from my wife, two years ago. I was destined to start reading it last month. What follows is not a book review, though it may seem so to some readers, but gleanings which overwhelm, inspire, touch one’s heart and stand out as beacons for generations to come.
Beyond The Psyche
Think Like EinsteinEinstein, da Vinci, Thomas Edison, and many modern achievers, including entrepreneurs, have sought silence, and retreated into a world of adventure, fantasies, and dreams, in order to allow themselves to live their dreams, and also lead a blessed life.
Business-Spirituality
An Evening In SingaporeRaju was visibly agitated. He opened his purse and showed the coconut vendor the compartments. “If you think I am lying, see this…” The lady returned his impulsiveness with equal gusto. She started yelling, “I swear by Jesus Christ that I have returned your money.”
