• 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.…

  • John Stuart Mill and Freedom of Expression

    John Stuart Mill, the famous 19th century English philosopher, has had a huge influence on the world we live in today. When he conceived of liberty as justifying the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state and social control, he shaped the idea of America which in turn has shaped the idea of today’s democratic world.…

  • 5 Writing Tips From Shakespeare

    What Shakespeare can teach today’s writers – here is the answer.

  • Why You Should Read Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

    Meditations written by a Roman emperor, Marcus Aurelius, is perhaps the only book of its kind. It contains the private thoughts of the world’s most powerful man at that time on how to lead a better life. The lessons drawn might be old, but their relevance has only grown with time. The book is based…

  • Reading Mandukya Upanishad

    The theme of the Mandukya Upanishad is an exposition of the Mystic Syllable, Om, with a view to training the mind in meditation, for the purpose of achieving freedom, gradually, so that the individual soul is attuned to the Ultimate Reality.

  • Anees Salim’s Dark, Funny And Beautiful World

    Anees Salim has weaved a world so beautiful that you cannot help but surrender yourself to the literary beauty of it.