I know a lot has been written about rape and rape cases. Jyoti’s rape itself was a demonstration of mind-numbing inhuman traits… Worse than animals. Now, this another one – close on heels of so many others, is equally baffling. Do we not have human beings living in India anymore? In a shocking incident, a woman who got down from a Delhi-bound train in Bhagalpur district, was gangraped, killed and her semi-naked body hung from a tree in a mango... Read more
A country is not a one-celled animal that it can only focus or do one thing at a time. Nor is a human being so. A country needs to have an organizational ability (through its Executive, Administrative, Legislative, and Judiciary) to tackle many fronts at the same time. Lately, we have had a horrendous incident of Rape, which has brought the issue of rape to the fore-front. Now, it seems rapes are happening everywhere and everyday and with every one. ... Read more
Anant Goenka of Indian Express (Head – New Media, Indian Express Group) discusses his role in taking the legacy of Express (been there since 1931) viral by using online technologies. Given that print is still very profitable in India and advertising pie and readership still growing; the technology and online platforms aren’t so top of the mind options for most entrepreneur. Online revenue is not even a One percent limit of the whole thing. One interesting insight from him: Most... Read more
Why is there misery in the world? Specially why do people suffer from disease and disability causing misery to themselves and others? Someone asks this question and Sadhguru goes into the depths of this question with him. Read more
JO Wood is an English model, television personality, entrepreneur and ex-wife of Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood. She is settled in London. She went to Kailash and Mansarovar with Sadhguru Jaggi. In this video she shows her journey as well as her interest in Project Greenhands. To know more about this afforestation effort, which has established a Guinness Book record for most trees planted in a day, and make your donations, you can go to its website. Read more
It is as if the collective male consciousness has just become mind-numbingly criminal in India. Close on the heels of the death of Jyoti Singh Pandey, the Delhi Gang rape victim, come another gang rape, which can bring the images of Delhi’s nightmare back. The victim had boarded the service to her in-laws’ home in the northern state of Punjab when she was abducted Friday and driven to a district bordering the Sikh holy city of Amritsar, local police officer... Read more
When they say “Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder”, apparently they were dot on! Judgments – causal ones – are indeed made only in the eyes. Judgment, say about beauty, wouldn’t even involve the mind! So, do we even think while making a judgment about someone? This is not a rhetorical or even a philosophical question. Medically, researchers are finding out that at the primary level of judgment no thought is employed. Judgments are only at the level... Read more
Are the Bollywood just being holier-than-thou when it comes to issues, while in their films they themselves showcase women as sex objects? People like Mahesh Bhatt, whose heart probably beats for every social ill, which he blames on Religion, is probably the shallowest of them all. No one has used women.. and I want to deliberately have that word here.. USE…. as much as Mahesh Bhatt. Specifically, in his movies. Using Porn Stars is not to show the acting talent... Read more
Here is an interesting discussion between one of the greatest minds of the last century, J. Krishnamurti and Huston Smith, religious studies scholar in the United States. Read more
Some absolutely hilarious Commercials from India. Its a great compilation here. The last one specially just left me in splits! Read more
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