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How to Read Salman Rushdie
If you ask someone how to read Salman Rushdie, you would often hear that it’s going to be a hard task. That might be true. At the same time, it’s also true that the effort comes with rewards… and the rewards in this case are outrageously wonderful. Rushdie is not just a storyteller. While telling…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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