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  • Gossips from the Mughal Courts

    In all of Delhi’s history, at no period was that thin dress of civilisation more beautiful – or more woven – than during the first half of the seventeenth century, during the Golden Age of Shah Jehan. After the death of his beloved queen Mumtaz Mahal, Shah Jehan decided to move his court from Agra…

  • Richard Dawkins Tells the Story of Human Eye

    Long after The Origin of Species was published Charles Darwin confessed, in a letter to an American colleague: ‘The eye, to this day, gives me a cold shudder, but when I think of the fine known gradations, my reason tells me I ought to conquer the cold shoulder.’ It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say…

  • What Happens When a Sufi’s Wife Cheats on Him

    Part of Rumi’s Masnavi, a series of six books of poetry, is the story about The Sufi and His Cheating Wife. Here is what it means when translated to English.

  • A Short Course on Buddhism by Nagarjuna

    Nagarjuna was a renowned Buddhist sage who lived in the second and third century AD. His writings, particularly his commentaries on Buddhist philosophy, hold great significance even today. One of the popular collections is called Nagarjuna’s Letter to King Gautamiputra which has been published under the same title and translated in all major languages. Nagarjuna…

  • Unusual Temples of India

    Temples are the soul of India. You find them in every street, every village, every town, every riverbank, every hillock – almost everywhere you see you find a temple. A lot has been written about the temples of India. Most of the writing happens to be on the architecturally opulent temples, on the past grandeur,…

  • Avoiding Gobbledygook in Your Writing

    Sometimes we need jargons, complicated language and excessive use of difficult words; in other words, we need Gobbledygook. But, most times we don’t. Gobbledygook only hurts the clarity of our writing. An emphasis on clarity does not mean, though, that you should limit yourself to three-letter words; but use familiar, everyday words wherever possible. You…

  • Indian Secularism: History, Form and Understanding

    The long history of heterodoxy has a bearing not only on the development and survival of democracy in India, it has also richly contributed to the emergence of Indian secularism, and even to the form that Indian secularism takes, which is not exactly the same as the way secularism is defined in parts of the…

  • An Italian Folktale: The Salamanna Grapes

    There was once a king who had a very beautiful daughter of marriageable age. A neighbouring king had three grown sons, who all fell in love with the princess. The princess’s father said, “As far as I am concerned, you are all three equal, and I couldn’t for the life of me give any one…