“For the one who has conquered the mind, The mind is the best of friends; But for one who has failed to do so, His very mind will be his greatest enemy”. – Bhagavad Gita 6.6 John Hunter, an English Physiologist was a man prone to become extremely angry. He used to say, […]
“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.” ― Edith Sitwell As you are reading this, millions of cells in your body are shrinking and pulling away from its neighbours. The surface […]
“People are ruined by challenged economic lives. But they are ruined by wealth as well because they lose their ambition and they lose their pride and they lose their sense of self-worth…” – Malcolm Gladwell (David and Goliath) An average human being would eat just three meals a day, put on just one […]
“A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings Introduction We are all afraid to die. At least most of us are. I believe that the fear of death arises out of the mystery […]
“For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.” – A P J Abdul Kalam Arun Shouri (journalist, former minister in the NDA government and an economist with the World Bank), while participating in a recent book launch function attended among others by former Prime Minister Manmohan […]
Dear Reader, The first posts on this blog were published on 26.10.2014. Thus, the first anniversary of this blog falls today. And I write this to express my gratitude for all those who have been supporting, encouraging and inspiring me in commencing and continuing with this venture. I had completed three articles for my blog during the period […]
“Our sincerest laughter, with some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought”. – Percy Bysshe Shelley My Mother and My Son (30.11.2013) On a day in the second fortnight of September 2015, my mother was wheeled into the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a hospital in the city. She […]
“Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another, they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire for a better life. They have surrendered their fight for self-esteem and they have compromised their great potential… Yet they need not remain in that state…They can each perform the greatest miracle in […]
“The idea that a country or a people could somehow be ordained by heaven to commit unspeakable acts in God’s name is insane. Unfortunately, history is full of inhuman acts by religious leaders in the name of their dogma or holy war.” – Zain Winter Introduction On September 11, 2001, nineteen Islamic terrorists boarded four […]
“Murder, considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse.” – St. Cyprian (200 AD – 258 AD) Introduction Auschwitz, the death camp set up in Poland by the Nazis during World War-II (1939-1945), is considered the largest mass murder site in human history. Precise number […]