An Eye for An Eye Makes the Whole World Blind
The saying “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind” was a response by Mahatma Gandhi to a…
The Newfangled Gentry
The Industrial Revolution dismantled the aristocracy—gravitated the peasants to urban pockets, taking the citadel of the transformation as an example,…
Finding Strength and Wisdom in the Hanuman Chalisa
The Hindu religion encompasses a wide swath of ideas, deities, poems, ways of worshiping, myths, places of worship, and festivals. Truth…
Open or Closed—The New Global Political Divide
The general notion is that there are individuals who incline right, left, or center in terms of their political and…
Kingdom of Ideas — Without a King?
As I am on the cusp of entering a new phase in my life—entering undergraduate school—I wonder what such an…
Empathy — The Heart’s Mirror
In the third decade of this present century, a lot has evolved, for better or for worse. But human inventions…
The Tempest of Needless Fear
During the course of the past week, global markets were in a state of deep panic. With concurring breaking news…
The Past Month.
“Yes, we can” was the slogan of a presidential campaign that was unprecedented and initiated five decades after LBJ’s Civil…
My Missive to the Deniers of Technology — A Lamentation
Innovation is part and parcel of human civilization. From the stone ages to the multiple industrial revolutions—the transformative tools that…
India’s Reluctant Ascent
The ruling dispensation in India has numerous times iterated that it hopes to become the third largest economy in the…