16 thought compelling images from 2016
An image, a thousand words, and a million interpretations.
Economics of a 3600 crore ₹ statue?
It is hard for this enormous expense to make sense in a state where uncountable number of farmers commit suicide.
My experience with Kalaripayattu
I recently had the honour of visiting Kochi, and watching Kalaripayattu experts show their skills in a wondrous and breathtaking series of attack like scenarios. Kalaripayattu is believed to be the mother of all martial arts. Amongst many Chinese traders, was Boddhidharma who visited Kerala. When he was acquainted by the art of Kalaripayattu he…
Does love make any economic sense?
Economics in it’s most bare form is the study of optimal and efficient allocation of scarce resources. There cannot be anything more scarce or precious than love.
When I asked Devdutt Patnaik about hair and mythology
“What role does gender identity and representation play in the world of the Gods? There has no supreme God that I have come across, who has short hair, for example the Greek Gods, Shiva, Devis, Jesus or Mother Mary”
How the Bhutanese people love their royalty
Unreal is the only word, to explain their connection with their leaders.
Albert Camus and Optimism
There are many ways of looking at optimism… However, I interpret Camus’ words from his writings in Myth of Sisyphus differently.
In Buddhism, why do nuns have more rules than monks?
It is not possible to say that every woman who knew she was not treated equally, was ready to be treated as an equal, since the societal conditioning was so strong.. But among the teachings of the Lotus Sutra, that of women attaining Buddhahood is foremost.
What Bhutan taught me
After visiting Bhutan I do not remember it as a place, but as a home that hosts honest love to the environment like never seen before. It hosts the philosophies that people can not understand easily, but only observe the effects of when followed in their daily lives. The ideas perpetrated by many are followed in…
My experience studying in Israel and Palestine
India and Israel, in many ways have so much in common, yet at the same time they are completely different. Both emerged as independent countries from under the yoke of British colonialism, and more interestingly…
