The word yoga means literally means “union” or “to merge”. More than a set of physical postures or exercises, Sadhguru defines yoga as a science to determine the nature of who you are and what you want to be. Sadhguru explains that yoga means to liberate yourself from that information which determines who you are right now. If you can distance yourself from this information, then you’re moving into yoga. A great series on Yoga. To learn more about Sadhguru... Read more
This guy reading the newspaper on the subway is Keanu Reeves. And he is travelling in the New York subway just like other millions of commuters. It seems that the New Yorkers either don’t care or are just acting cool. However, he not just travels in public transport but is actually quite a gentleman. The Matrix star has had a tough life: His father was arrested when he was 12 for drug dealing and his mother was a stripper. His... Read more
Two interesting pieces of information on the Boston Bombers have emerged. First is that none of the Bombers (younger was less than 21 years old anyway) had licenses to buy firearms. Yet they had a large cache of arms to carry out many attacks! And this comes right after the Senate has voted against improving the background checks. The Boston bombing suspects engaged in a deadly firefight with police last week, possessing six bombs, handguns, a rifle and more than... Read more
Sumit Dagar, a postgraduate degree from the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, is collaborating with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi to come out with a unique device. Now, soon blind people can read SMS and emails on their smartphones. No matter what language you send the email or SMS to the person, the message will be converted into blind-friendly braille. Sumit’s company is being incubated at the Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) based on the... Read more
To place a lot of importance to the debt that the US has accumulated is to ignore the other strengths from which the US comes to table with. The impact of debt in case of US specifically is the sum total of its economic, military and political clout. Fortunately for the US, and unfortunately for the world, debt is not the only thing that plays a role in the debt-dynamics between US and the world. We saw that in the... Read more
A few months back, Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) started a “My Jihad” campaign that aimed to “legitimize” the word Jihad and also somehow take away the “stigma” from what is happening in the Islamic world. The idea is to deceive the Americans as opposed to establishing their version of Jehad in the Islamic minds. The ads took ordinary life situations – that in the first place DO NOT require any deep introspection – for example, “befriending non-Muslims”, doing exercise,... Read more
Questioner : You say that persons like krishna don’t make friends nor do they make foes. Then how is it that he as a king comes running down to the gate of his palace to receive sudama, his poor old friend of childhood days and gives him all the wealth of the world in return for a handful of rice that his poor friend has brought as his present to him? Please shed some light on this special friendship between... Read more
There are many crazy men and many interestingly crazy things that people do, but what this young man did to check out how it feels to be shot by a gun is the most amazing! Check it out. Read Quote of Mircea Goia’s answer to What does it feel like to be shot/wounded by a bullet? on Quora Read more
What is Rashtra Dharma (or Duty to your Nation)? Is it sucking up to the dynasties? Or is it Unity, integrity, security and prosperity of your mother-land? Chanakya deals with these questions very effectively in this one interaction. Whatever he says is still relevant… just replace Nand-vansh with Gandhi dynasty. Same thing. And honestly, this is the issue I have with Dr. Manmohan Singh. Nothing has put him down in my eyes more than how he has collaborated with the... Read more
“No Place on Earth” is the incredible story of a small group of Jews who literally went underground, into caves, to escape the horrors of the Holocaust. It happened in 1942 in the Ukraine. The story began to come out only much later when a cave explorer fro new York City happened upon the scene. And now it’s told in a documentary that mixes the first-person accounts of survivors with re-enactments of events from the past. For 511 days, they... Read more
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