In the seventies when I was growing up, we were all Greta Thunbergs, environmental warriors. Except that we did not know it. The way of life, adopted by our family of nine with my dad being the sole bread earner,...
“Covid-19 eventually will peak and then dissipate. By God’s grace that will happen sooner rather than later. I am neither an epidemiologist nor clairvoyant, but I do know that eventually we will be, mostly, Covid free. While the coronavirus and...
Payal Jangid, a teenager from a village, Hinsla, in Rajasthan has made curbing of child marriages and abolition of child labour her twin missions in life. “Many resign themselves, to the way things are, far too easily. Everyone must challenge...
During this lockdown period, I found a few of the WhatsApp groups that I engaged with regularly take up gardening, especially terrace gardening. Coincidentally, just a few days before the lockdown was announced in the third week of March, I...
The most dangerous type of ego is spiritual ego. Every person on a spiritual path has to be very careful about developing it. After many years of spiritual practice or reading many spiritual books, or sometimes even after reading one...
Sitting on the steps on the banks of the Ganga in Rishikesh some summers ago gave me a feeling of peace and unity with the universe, more than I ever experienced in a church, temple, gurdwara or other places of...
Who would have thought that life would change so dramatically? It has been over two months that we have been locked up in our homes, cooking, cleaning, working from home, cut off from our friends and in some cases, even...
The lockdown gave the author time to experiment with different kinds of flower and herbal teas I will begin with the etymology of Swastha, the Sanskrit word for health and well-being. It is a compound word, combining, Swa, and Stha....
Dr Aiswarya Rao, now 47, was struck with polio when she was three, causing weakening of her muscles and locomotive disability. She has been moving around in crutches since then. But this has neither been an impediment for Dr Rao...
