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  • How to Read Bhagavad Gita

    Bhagavad Gita – literally translates to The Song of God – is a holy book for Hindus. There are certainly countless other texts such as Vedas, Upanishads etc and in fact many other Gitas, but this one in particular holds a special place and is read/chanted widely in the Hindu society. How should one read…

  • Understanding Burmese (Myanmar) Conflict

    What’s going on in Myanmar? A coup? Yes. But, how did we get here? To answer that question, we have to go back into the past – as we so often do – and find out the power dynamics there. In order to understand the present-day conflict of Myanmar, or Burma as it was previously…

  • How to Kiss as per Kamasutra

    How to kiss as per Kamasutra, the ancient Indian text on the art of love? It sounds a bit funny, perhaps something close to ‘click-bait’ in modern parlance, but the ancient Indians were comfortable exploring the ideas of intimacy. Hard to believe, right? But that’s how it was. That’s why, over 2200 years later, Kamasutra…

  • The Pluralism of India: Shashi Tharoor

    Note: The below excerpts are taken from Shashi Tharoor’s book India: From Midnight to the Millenium and Beyond. My generation grew up in an India where our sense of nationhood lay in the simple thought: That the singular thing about India was that you could only speak of it in the plural. This pluralism emerged…

  • Revisiting Malgudi Days

    The world first heard about this small town called Malgudi in 1935 when RK Narayan published his first novel Swami and Friends. The town was fictional but everything about it was real. The streets, the cinema, the bank, the haircutting salon, the people believing in Indian astrology on one hand and obsessed with English education…

  • Welcome to the World of GK Chesterton

    Some say, he was the greatest writer of the 20th century. Let’s take a ride through his writing and major works.

  • Immanuel Kant’s Dove Metaphor Will Change the Way You Think

    Words matter. They can cheer you up or bring you down. This is the reason why we read and write and love our language dearly — for we know how it influences our lives. Does it always have to be a book (or a play or poem) that alters our perspectives? Could it be a…

  • How to Commit Suicide?

    How to choose death over life? Or vice versa.