To My Countrymen
0(A hundred years ago, India was like a raft in a rocky sea in the middle of a storm — […]
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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 […]
The Idea of a Novel
0She was a smart, young and bright student of a venerable institution, which pursues spiritual values in education. We were […]
True Commitment
0Can a sense of commitment to others be harmful to oneself? It is possible that some of us have experienced […]
Silence
0In the hush of the primordial nakedness, All garments fall away. Nude in the transparency of being, The myriad becomings […]
Hanging with the Uncool
1Some say God is not cool enough for the world as it exists today. He doesn’t know how to ‘hang’. […]
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 […]
Not so Mysterious, After All
0The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. He prayed feverishly for God to […]
Project Warm!
1We run, we hide, we pretend we can’t see. But we cannot ever fool ourselves enough into believing that He […]
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 Good and Bad of Obsession
0Of all the hours we have in hand, if one was to observe sincerely, it would turn out that many […]
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 […]
The Victory of this Moment
0This moment let me thank you for the deliverance, I know not what battle the next will bring, This moment […]
Different Perspectives
0One day a father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the […]
Straight Lines and Circles
1It is said that the most difficult path to walk on is the one that leads to the Divine. Despite […]
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 […]
Aspiration
0Aspiration A yearning for Thee An infant awareness aspiring Responding timely To a blind faith old A heavy handed silence […]
Courage
0World War II produced many heroes. One such man was a Lieutenant Commander Butch O’Hare. He was a fighter pilot […]
Freedom is My Birthright
0Bal Gangadhar Tilak was sentenced to six years imprisonment for seditious writing in 1908 and was sent to Mandalay jail […]
Sweep the Temple
1On observing the bird life in cities these days, it will come as no surprise to find crows and more […]
Education for Perfection
0Our religions have proclaimed from the very beginning that each human individual is to be regarded as a spark of […]
Knocking at Your Door
0Why this begging for alms of human love When your sweetness waits to descend from above? Why are my ears […]
Science and Politics
0In the following speech made at the Indian Science News Association, Calcutta, on 21st August, 1938, Subhas Chandra Bose elaborates […]
Divine DNA?
2Someone recently cited an example of how there was such a disconnect between his generation and that of his children. […]
Three Blind Men
0There are three kinds of blindness in the world of men. The first is the one which robs a man […]
Towards Freedom
0(Lala Lajpat Rai had left India in 1913 and gave the following reason for his departure: ‘I began to suspect […]
The One Constant
0If one takes a moment to reflect, it would seem incredible to review the number of changes that take place […]
The Technique of Enjoyment
0There is some meaning in describing the Upanishads as rahasya, mystery. The Upanishads are profound, and only the seeker who […]
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, […]
Reaching Out for a Blade of Bliss
0A friend sent me an sms recently, inquiring about my state of health by literally mentioning all the malfunctioning bits […]
