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  • How Islam Came to India

    Note: Following excerpts were taken from Khushwant Singh’s non-fiction work ‘India: An Introduction’. Islam came to India before the Muslim conquerors. Arab traders brought Islam to the western coast within a few years of the death of the Prophet. Then in AD 712 the seventeen-year-old Mohammed Bin Qasim invaded Sindh. This incursion was, however, as…

  • How Christianity Came to India

    Note: Following excerpts were taken from Khushwant Singh’s non-fiction work ‘India: An Introduction’. Christianity came very early to India. Thomas Didymus, the apostle, came to Malabar in the year AD 52. Although his mission was to convert Jews who had preceded him to India, once in the country, he decided to take on the gentile…

  • Inside Saadat Hasan Manto’s World

    Saadat Hasan Manto was a rare writer who captured the essence of India and Pakistan equally well, especially the dark sides of these two societies which used to be one before the partition of India in 1947. And he lived through all of this. Born in Punjab and having spent many years in Bombay working…

  • 7 Things About ‘The Guru Granth Sahib’ You Didn’t Know

    Not too many people around the world know much about Sikhism. Occasionally you see or hear about the turban-wearing Sikh men doing community services in various parts of the world, but rarely do we talk about their beliefs. There are over 25 million Sikhs around the world and most of them live in the Punjab…

  • 3 Pandemic Lessons from Albert Camus’s The Plague

    The Plague is a novel about a plague epidemic in the large Algerian city of Oran. It was written by Albert Camus, a Nobel prize winning author, in 1947. While any novel – and certainly this one – is more about the world one experiences as one delves deep into it, there are still occasions when…

  • A Course in Discovering and Recovering Your Creative Self

    When someone asks Julia Cameron, “how can you teach creativity?” she says, “I cannot. I teach people to let themselves be creative.” That’s quite an optimistic view of life, i.e., to believe that everyone is creative and can create far more interesting things than they normally believe. But, that’s what Julia Cameron believes who is…

  • PANCHATANTRA – Indian Stories That Travelled Around The World

    The Panchatantra (Five Treatises) is an ancient Indian collection of stories that most Indians grew up with. These are interrelated animal fables in Sanskrit verse and prose (now translated into almost every major language), arranged within a frame story. The Panchatantra was written at least 2200 years ago – with a possible oral history beyond that – by Vishnu Sharma which could very well…

  • Leaves of Grass – Celebrating Life with Poetry

    Walt Whitman wrote in the preface to the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, “The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.” And that has been the case with Whitman. His poems speak to us in the same way they spoke to people in the 19th century.…