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Education, religion and spirituality
When Adviti started school, I learnt an analogy between education vs learning to religion and spirituality. Spirituality is like learning.
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Clinging to wealth
There have been many Messiah, and many have learnt to have peaceful life because of them. There are many who have learnt violence, the lessons were given and listeners have learnt what “they wanted” to learn. It is up to you what you learn. The invention of this story is Read more
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Neeraj in Kabir’s style
Gopaldas Neeraj is an Indian poet. He wrote many poems, some I studied in my course work may be. I remember his Bollywood songs such as O meri sharmilee (from the movie Sharmilee) and Phoolon ke rang se, dil ki kalam se (from the movie Prem Pujari) etc. Read more Read more
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Yoga – Secular or not?
It takes a lot of time for courts to offer a judgement, there are argument and counter-arguments. Logic and intuition fails if you do not have proof. That’s why Indian courts take 20 years even for high profile cases (e.g. Mumbai bomb blast), small cases are either solved out of Read more
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Miracles of life – are we sleeping?
As usual, this story again comes from – ‘The prayer of the Frog’ by Father Anthony de Mello, S.J. The book has small stories and worth reading one at a time, sleep over the story and think what we can improve in our life? A man took his new hunting Read more
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The circle, conflicts and avoiding conflicts
Perform an experiment – a simple 2-minute experiment. Take a blank sheet of paper and a pen. At the center of the page, put a dot. What is it? A dot nothing else right? Now draw a big circle with the dot as the center of the circle. Now what Read more
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Incentive to cheat – Problem with Democracy
I read a book – Games Indians Play by Mr Raghunathan a Professor in IIM-A and CEO of GMR group. I have written on this book earlier too – Individually smart collectively dumb. The problems with Indian – supposedly sharp – minds is given below in story format. This story Read more
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Border-less world
Let us imagine, a border-less world. A world where 1. people can move from one place to the other without Visas 2. goods and services can be bought and sold without import/export duties 3. education is free (at least basic education) 4. people would be free to do what they Read more
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33 – Understanding change and change in understanding
33 Understanding change and change in understanding is a book by Richard Saul Wurman. You know TED conferences? He created that. I want to write a lot of blogs (perhaps one for each page from the book). Professor Mankad gave this book to me, when I requested him for opinions Read more