I have published columns here for a brief while I blogged. The effort attracted some thousands of views - thank you. The I went away to create an Alternate Weekly Digest ...    Notes INDIA. It has fine content for the evolved reader. And no ado. It is slated to appear every Thurs... Seguir leyendo

Filosofía Rajive Malhotra’s work, ” Being Different,” is a challenging book. If literary classics are especially vested with riches that enable them to be read at different levels, Rajive’s matter-of-fact psycho-spiritual non-fiction demands a subsumation of all levels to a very specific understanding of the ... Seguir leyendo

Cultura All identities, esp religious and political, demand loyalty to a “Super” Order …  a Church, an Ummah, a Socialist Internationale, a Maoist dream, a grand global collective that bars dissent. In aspring to such a grand social or political order, it actually strikes at th... Seguir leyendo

IV Whom The Way Calls In common with every other perception, experience and knowledge, the way to truth surfaces within ourself. The witness in object–subject relatedness is forever between the fact in our eye, the meaning in our perception and the knowledge with ourself, including of our ow... Seguir leyendo

III             The Fact In The WayThere is no way to any absolute truth for those of us who are not taken up exclusively by the drive to know; untill then, facts would be the truth of our moments and action our refuge for what is in our desire and want or in our hatred... Seguir leyendo

II          What is the truth ?It is that which supports the entire tangible and intangible domain, that exists by its own potency and cannot be contradicted. It is everything material, physical, mental, psychological and spiritual … all that are perceived to exist of their ... Seguir leyendo

I           A Quick ViewThere are facts we know and the rest we do not. The divide is not just of units but also of the their constituents and compounds. The boundary though is not clearly etched but diffused all the way – now on the ground and then below the cognate surface... Seguir leyendo

Filosofía But what is truth ? It is everything material, physical, psychological and spiritual, which exist of their own accord and power in our past, present and future. It is existence that comes to be of its own potency, whose being cannot be denied in its moment or eternity, through which it exists. ... Seguir leyendo

Política Internacional ” Iranians need help, not war or sanctions, to oust their regime,” says Reza Pahlavi in Al Arabiya News today @ http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/05/18/214828.html   There is no doubt about the Persian influence in Middle East and Central Asian regions. It flows from history. Not... Seguir leyendo

Literatura MOTHER AND I … ... A Tribute   He, I hear, is terminally ill… I rush from a city far To be with the living god Odor of life churned In truth and hard earned. He, indeed, is terminally ill… I bear ... Seguir leyendo

Literatura COMMUNION One spring morning my dreams come true The sun hid and sought, Breeze was gutsy n cool Birds chirped, Hopped with cheer And flew low, About children gaming in the street below Playing... as if extending the overnight score.   ... Seguir leyendo

Artes MeenaKumari - A Soul Worth Knowing Twice ... Truly a life in which heaven and hell met ! Her biographical sketch is one of most fascinating I have ever come across... as a liberal Muslim in the conservative decades of 1950-70, who rose to undreamed of stardom and histrionic excel... Seguir leyendo

Artes Movie Review :  Imagining Argentina... My Impressions   Antonio Banderas has a furrowed brow in the best of the times. In Imagining Argentina, a powerful and disturbing political drama, his look serves to best append with the role of Carlos, a passive but tor... Seguir leyendo

Historia GURU TEG BAHADUR   One of the grandest stories ever anywhere, from the annals of Indian history… a real tale of transcendent courage in the cause of universal human values and rights, of unflinching compassion for the oppressed and the downtrodden, and of one man’s infinite commitment ... Seguir leyendo

Literatura India :  through the ages ...The Kalinjar Fort in Bundelkhand is an entire history in itself, a story through 6000 human generations in immediate past alone. You cannot think of it without the convergence it includes – of people and events from the wide, wide world within the sub-... Seguir leyendo