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The Earthy Crown of Felicity

The Earthy Crown of Felicity

The underlying reason behind an increasing number of people getting angry, cynical, and restless is their disconnect with their religion – something they can’t even acknowledge…

Good Deeds, Bad Deeds

Good Deeds, Bad Deeds

Every childhood is synonymous with instructions raining from parents and other people around. A child is continuously told to do this and not to do that. This continues throughout their childhood where they are influenced by the various people around…

Seeing the Unseen

Seeing the Unseen

I spent the last few months reading the copious History of Western Philosophy by the British philosopher, Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), published in 1945. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950…

Lovers of Lifestyle, not Life!

Lovers of Lifestyle, not Life!

For many months, I have been reading “Faust,” a poem of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), published in two parts – in 1806 and in 1832. Originally written in German, it has been translated by several people. The translation by the American poet, Bayard Taylor, done in 1862, reached me…

All the World is a Differential Equation

All the World is a Differential Equation

I have been unwell for a while and mostly stay at home. It has been three years since I have traveled out of Hyderabad. There was the lockdown period in between when everybody was stationed at home, and the culture of Zoom calls and work-from-home evolved, but gradually, the world has returned to normal and all the birds are flying again..

The Awe of Being Alive

The Awe of Being Alive

I have been unwell for a while and mostly stay at home. It has been three years since I have traveled out of Hyderabad. There was the lockdown period in between when everybody was stationed at home, and the culture of Zoom calls and work-from-home evolved, but gradually, the world has returned to normal and all the birds are flying again..

A Conscious Existence 

A Conscious Existence 

I have always regarded well mavericks, who are described as unorthodox or independent-minded persons. They keep coming in every age, as if to puncture the balloons flying high in their times, and to point out the limited shelf-life of every dogma.

The Truth About One-third of Your Life

The Truth About One-third of Your Life

Normally, the 24 hours of a day are divided into 16 hours of waking time and eight hours of sleep, plus/ minus an hour or two. That means, one-third of one’s life is spent in sleep. Sleep is divided into two types – deep sleep and dream sleep…

Living in the Age of Muck

Living in the Age of Muck

Everyone knows the internal drives – emotions, feelings, and, of course, thoughts – that keep buzzing inside one’s head and indeed drive the responses and reactions to the events in one’s life. Everyone also knows the dreams that every night brings a weird world…

You have an embedded Operating System

You have an embedded Operating System

Everyone knows the internal drives – emotions, feelings, and, of course, thoughts – that keep buzzing inside one’s head and indeed drive the responses and reactions to the events in one’s life. Everyone also knows the dreams that every night brings a weird world…