Every great culture and civilization has a clear concept of its self identity. This definition is not rigid and can change with times, but it is perilous for any civilization to not know ‘who they are’, at any given time in history. The logic behind this is similar to the logic behind borders. They are […]
Taking a bath was a simple activity, back in the 1980s. While many of our homes had bathrooms, men seldom had a bath inside. The children, almost as a rule, bathed in the open, under the hand pump, which were common in every other home. And children didn’t mean just infants or toddlers. We were […]
Once again going back to the days of my childhood as an anchor in time, I remember a world full of dukkha but empty of depression. This is what makes me wonder, whether depression is the way of the Shakti telling us that pain can never be completely eliminated from life, and when you remove […]