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How to Focus in an Ever-Distracting World
In his book Deep Work, Cal Newport, an American author and professor, explains the value of focus in this ever-distracting world. Today, the ability to focus on a task is becoming increasingly rare, and at the same time, increasingly valuable. Most of us are aware that we are facing this challenge, given how much we Read more
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Was Ancient India Peaceful?
Was ancient India peaceful? Or was violence, political and social, prevalent in those times? Let’s find out with the help of Upinder Singh’s book on the subject. Read more
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A Brief History of The Taliban
The popular narrative, especially in the western media, suggests that the Taliban movement emerged out of nowhere in 1990s and it conquered Afghanistan within no time. A closer look, however, tells a different story. What is this story? We explore it with the help of the books written by Ahmed Rashid and James Fergusson on Read more
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How Thinking-People Should Choose a Career
Why is a banker a banker? A lawyer, a lawyer? A doctor, a doctor? In other words, why do people do what they do? Most of us will give different answers to this question. Robert Louis Stevenson, a 19th-century Scottish writer, had an interesting point to make on the subject. He suggested that people do Read more
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What Universities Can Learn from Religion
There are two worlds out there: the world of facts and the world of values. The first is what we learn and explore, the second is what we act upon. In the modern, secular education settings, we learn a great deal about the former but rarely do we pay as much attention to the latter Read more
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The Art of Essay-Writing
Arthur Benson, in his essay The Art of the Essayist narrates a short story to make an interesting point about essay-writing. It goes something like this. An itinerant sign-painter comes to a village inn whose sign-board he has had his eye for some months and has watched with hope its rapid progress to dimness. But, Read more
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