Creativity Redefined |
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Creativity is the central source of meaning in our lives -- a joyful responsibility. For a host of reasons. Yet, the real story of creativity is far more formidable and strange than what meets the eye, and mind, and much more difficult to comprehend than what several optimistic accounts -- scientific or otherwise -- have claimed. Creativity is also the cultural equivalent of the process of genetic changes that result in biological evolution, below the threshold of consciousness. To understand creativity is, therefore, not within the canvas of straight-line thinking. It's keyed to studying individuals who seem most responsible for a novel idea -- or, a new thing. By RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR |
Life-Culture
By RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Creativity is the central source of meaning in our lives. For a host of reasons. Yet, the real ...
By G VENKATESH I do not wish to make a pretentious show of secularism. It is not possible to push this bitter ...
By PETER MURRAY Get the light right, not because landscape lighting makes it easy and safe for you to amble through ...
By BADRINATH DURVASULA "A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every passerby leaves a mark." True to the ...
By G VENKATESH On March 24, 2011, I was awarded a doctorate in Industrial Ecology at the Norwegian University of Science ...
By G VENKATESH January 19, 2011. I had to leave my parents' home and head to New Delhi, wherefrom I would ...
By PETER MURRAY Decking choices are many: they include mahogany, composites, and plastics. However, the much-favoured choice, based on durability, or ease ...
By G VENKATESH This is a story with a moral -- a parable in other words -- which was forwarded to ...
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 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 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 PETER MURRAY Think of summer -- not by just devising a unique spot in the patio for summer-time dining and entertaining, ...
Pot-Pourri
It ‘Pays’ To Be A TeacherA teacher may be deprived of promotions, awards, salary raises during her career, when she is more focused on doing her work diligently and does not find time to think about these accolades. But, these surely pale in front of the gratitude of students — a reward which comes late in life and wipes off in a jiffy any bitterness or regret one may have had about the downs of one career.
Children's Upanishabd
The Colourfree PartyIt was Mo’s birthday. She was going to be having a party after school.
Looking Glass
The Sorcerer’s ApprenticePeople from every part of the world, every culture, race or tribe, have believed and practiced magic for time immemorial.
Science-Spirituality
Wheeled EvolutionIt is not necessary that one should possess awesome talent or gift of power to energise the chakras. All one needs to do is — be sensible and sensitive to our subtle levels.
Beyond The Psyche
Dharma: The Way To Righteous LivingA meaningful way of living on the path of righteousness, in truth, honesty in action, sincerity, duty with dignity and integrity, relates to the Sanskrit word, dhri — meaning to uphold or sustain as dharma.
Business-Spirituality
Of Prosperity… Without Economic GrowthProf Tim Jackson — Director of the Research Group in Lifestyles, Values and Environment — at the University of Surrey, in his capacity as Economics Commissioner of the Sustainable Development Commission [UK], has tried to answer this niggling question in his book, “Prosperity Without Growth.” Jackson’s eminently readable tome takes economics to the lay reader who would normally shy away from the subject… on the pretext that it is drab and difficult to understand.
