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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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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… Read more
