Turning Point
2I am speaking of an incident that took place about 30 years ago. It concerns our late friend Sri Surendra […]
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Can a Politician be a Gentleman?
0(Following is a compelling speech on politics and politicians by an eminent politician of pre-independence days delivered at the NagpurUniversity […]
How to Escape Education’s Death Valley
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“Education is not a mechanical system; it is a human system. It’s about people.” – Ken Robinson Any reader of […]
Paths are Made by Walking
0Thank you to my distinguished friends, President Amy Gutmann, Provost Vincent Price and Rev. Charles Howard for inviting me to […]
Sound Advice
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In this interview with Bertrand Russel , when asked what message he would like to give for future generations, he […]
The Tree of Life
0(15th of September was celebrated as World Tree Day by an inconspicuous organisation is one corner of the world: worldtreeday.org […]
Quit India
0Bombay, 8 August 1942 The speech which Gandhi delivered at the commencement of the Quit India Movement on 8th August, […]
A True Hero
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A tribal man with raging fever is carried on a stretcher over a long distance to the only doctor available […]
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
0(Steve Jobs (1955-2011) truly did take our world forward and we thank him for it. To celebrate his life, we […]
Nationalism in India
0(Rabindranath Tagore was undoubtedly one of the greatest intellects of India. He was a poet, writer, educationist, and India’s ‘conscience […]
Looking the Storm in the Face
0In May 1908, Sri Aurobindo was interned, along with thirty-eight revolutionaries, in the famous Alipore bombing case, but was released […]
To My Countrymen
0(A hundred years ago, India was like a raft in a rocky sea in the middle of a storm — […]
A Tryst with Destiny
0(The following speech by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was made on August 14th 1947 in New Delhi while introducing the pledge […]
A Dangerous Cult of Absolute Nonviolence
0In the 1940 presidential address at the Twenty-second Session of the Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha at Madurai, Savarkar criticizes Gandhi’s […]
The Dawn of Freedom
0(The following speech was made by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan on the eve of taking a pledge on the night of 14-15 […]
The Rise and Decline of Nations
0Amongst the hundreds of unsung heroes of the freedom struggle was Ajit Singh from Punjab, better known as Bhagat Singh’s […]
Patriotism in Samskrit Literature
0(Radha Kumud Mukherji, the noted historian and politician, avers in his speech that Samskrit literature is not all religion and […]
Freedom is My Birthright
0Bal Gangadhar Tilak was sentenced to six years imprisonment for seditious writing in 1908 and was sent to Mandalay jail […]
Education for Perfection
0Our religions have proclaimed from the very beginning that each human individual is to be regarded as a spark of […]
Science and Politics
0In the following speech made at the Indian Science News Association, Calcutta, on 21st August, 1938, Subhas Chandra Bose elaborates […]
Towards Freedom
0(Lala Lajpat Rai had left India in 1913 and gave the following reason for his departure: ‘I began to suspect […]
The Work before Us
0(Swami Vivekananda, the warrior monk who took the world by storm starting with the 1893 Parliament of Religions in Chicago, […]
The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination
0President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above […]
Hunger for Books
0In 2007, celebrated writer Doris Lessing, aged 88, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Presented below is her acceptance […]
The Successful Dropout
2I’ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: “Dad, I always told you I’d come back and get […]
The Republic of Dreams
0(Mahasweta Devi had people in tears at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2006. Delivered with passionate heart, her inaugural speech […]
Where are We Going?
0Where are we going? It is given to certain seers, Rishis, who can look beyond the barriers of physical space […]
Evaluating Sanskrit
0There are two forms of knowledge of which those who know Brahman have spoken: the higher and the lower – […]
Art, Truth and Politics
0In 1958 I wrote the following: ‘There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor […]
