
Turning Point
2I am speaking of an incident that took place about 30 years ago. It concerns our late friend Sri Surendra […]
I am speaking of an incident that took place about 30 years ago. It concerns our late friend Sri Surendra […]
(Following is a compelling speech on politics and politicians by an eminent politician of pre-independence days delivered at the NagpurUniversity […]
“Education is not a mechanical system; it is a human system. It’s about people.” – Ken Robinson Any reader of […]
Thank you to my distinguished friends, President Amy Gutmann, Provost Vincent Price and Rev. Charles Howard for inviting me to […]
In this interview with Bertrand Russel , when asked what message he would like to give for future generations, he […]
(15th of September was celebrated as World Tree Day by an inconspicuous organisation is one corner of the world: worldtreeday.org […]
Bombay, 8 August 1942 The speech which Gandhi delivered at the commencement of the Quit India Movement on 8th August, […]
A tribal man with raging fever is carried on a stretcher over a long distance to the only doctor available […]
(Steve Jobs (1955-2011) truly did take our world forward and we thank him for it. To celebrate his life, we […]
(Rabindranath Tagore was undoubtedly one of the greatest intellects of India. He was a poet, writer, educationist, and India’s ‘conscience […]
In May 1908, Sri Aurobindo was interned, along with thirty-eight revolutionaries, in the famous Alipore bombing case, but was released […]
(A hundred years ago, India was like a raft in a rocky sea in the middle of a storm — […]
(The following speech by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was made on August 14th 1947 in New Delhi while introducing the pledge […]
In the 1940 presidential address at the Twenty-second Session of the Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha at Madurai, Savarkar criticizes Gandhi’s […]
(The following speech was made by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan on the eve of taking a pledge on the night of 14-15 […]
Amongst the hundreds of unsung heroes of the freedom struggle was Ajit Singh from Punjab, better known as Bhagat Singh’s […]
(Radha Kumud Mukherji, the noted historian and politician, avers in his speech that Samskrit literature is not all religion and […]
Bal Gangadhar Tilak was sentenced to six years imprisonment for seditious writing in 1908 and was sent to Mandalay jail […]
Our religions have proclaimed from the very beginning that each human individual is to be regarded as a spark of […]
In the following speech made at the Indian Science News Association, Calcutta, on 21st August, 1938, Subhas Chandra Bose elaborates […]
(Lala Lajpat Rai had left India in 1913 and gave the following reason for his departure: ‘I began to suspect […]
(Swami Vivekananda, the warrior monk who took the world by storm starting with the 1893 Parliament of Religions in Chicago, […]
President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above […]
In 2007, celebrated writer Doris Lessing, aged 88, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Presented below is her acceptance […]
I’ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: “Dad, I always told you I’d come back and get […]
(Mahasweta Devi had people in tears at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2006. Delivered with passionate heart, her inaugural speech […]
Where are we going? It is given to certain seers, Rishis, who can look beyond the barriers of physical space […]
There are two forms of knowledge of which those who know Brahman have spoken: the higher and the lower – […]
In 1958 I wrote the following: ‘There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor […]