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  • A 2500-Year-Old Letter from a Jewish Father to Son

    Egypt (475 BCE) IN THE BEGINNING — not the imagined beginning of patriarchs and prophets, and certainly not the beginning of the whole universe, just the documented beginning of ordinary Jews — in that beginning, a father and mother were worrying about their son. This son, a soldier boy, was called Shelomam. His father was…

  • How to Make Soma Rasa – the Drink of Hindu Gods

    How does one prepare Soma Rasa, the sacred drink of Hindu Gods? Let’s find out here.

  • Can Men Live Without Women?

    Can men live without women? And if they can, what would their life be like, in such a scenario? It’s a depressing thought. Thankfully, we have literature, which means we can probe this question with a pinch of amusement.

  • Should I Lie Or Not?

    Imagine this scenario: Your friend comes to you, all excited, flaunting her new dress. But, you don’t think the dress suits her. In fact, you suspect, she couldn’t have found anything worse. Question: What do you do in this situation? Do you tell the truth? Or do you try to be nice and polite, and…

  • Read Raymond Carver’s Short Stories

    How should one read Raymond Carver’s short stories? Should one read them at all? Before we answer these questions, let’s try to understand the writer first. And before we understand the writer, let’s try to understand the man. When Raymond Carver was a little boy he was walking to school with a friend who got…

  • A Brief History of the Middle East (Part Two)

    In the previous post we covered till around 1200 BC in the history of the Middle East. We learnt that Phoenicians escaped from Egypt and invaded the land of Canaan from the east. They seized Jericho and gradually subdued its settled population in the hills. But they had to contend with a new wave of…

  • Mandukya Upanishad: Four States of Consciousness

    Upanishads are philosophical-religious texts for Hindus. The word Upanishad is generally translated as to “sit down closely” as one would to listen attentively to instruction by a teacher or other authority figure — which is how the education system worked in ancient India. There are more than a hundred Upanishads, of which ten (sometimes thirteen)…

  • A Brief History of News Media

    It is difficult to pinpoint the exact starting point of the history of news media. Gossippers have existed ever since the first language arrived on the scene. In fact, gossip was one of the driving factors behind the evolution of language in human beings. Ibn Battuta, in his travel memoirs, tells us about some men…