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October 2024

October 05, 2024
In the agora of ancient Athens, Socrates walked among the crowds, his face creased in...

September 2024

September 15, 2024
Truth is singular. The wise have always known this. They call it by many names,...
September 04, 2024
It's 2024, and as voters, we face the complex landscape of our identities and beliefs....

December 2023

December 01, 2023
The philosophy of Effective Altruism has been in the news lately, thanks to the developments...
December 01, 2023
Religions that rely on scripture alone will face a reckoning in this new age. A...

July 2023

July 07, 2023
We Care For The Self Alone Maitreyi stopped her husband, the fabled Sage Yajnavalkya, as...

June 2023

June 29, 2023
Religion is everywhere in India. Growing up, I didn't think much about the question in...

April 2023

April 10, 2023
A few weeks ago, I was returning from Trader Joe’s and noticed a young man...

March 2023

March 08, 2023
It’s International Women’s Day in March, and for many years, the women of the Islamic...

November 2016

November 14, 2016
In 2016, November 14 is Gurpurab, the full-moon night celebrating the enlightenment of Guru Nanak...

October 2016

October 28, 2016
It’s October, and each day is now shorter, and every night longer. As the shadows...
October 19, 2016
We close our yoga classes with a prayer for universal well being. It’s about a...
October 15, 2016
Yoga classes begin with Shanti (peace) mantras in Sanskrit. Here’s what the most popular opening...

September 2016

September 23, 2016
PC: Some pray to forget. Some pray to remember. Stories help us remember for...

February 2016

February 09, 2016
Photo Credit: Flickr Metanoia. “Metanoia”…the word came to mind silently one morning in that period between...

July 2015

July 25, 2015
Infinity Lights. Source: link I’d like you to read, as plainly as possible, the following sentence,...

May 2015

May 11, 2015
Credit: Flickr (link) Atheists come in all shapes and sizes. The only thing conforming about...
May 11, 2015
photo credit: photopin (license) Legend tells of a magic carpet that would transport its Prince...
May 11, 2015
Anonymous. Photo Credit (link) At a party the other day, while mingling with old and...
May 11, 2015
Three perspectives on a truncated life! — Religious beliefs come in different packages. In most...
May 11, 2015
I made this logo, I really did! a fictional short story by Gaurav Rastogi The Restless Sannyasi Deva...
May 11, 2015
Henry David Thoreau wrote, “The bluebird carries the sky on his back”. What did he mean?...
May 09, 2015
Hope and dreams are the dollars and change of Silicon Valley. ‘Unicorns’ was the name...

April 2015

April 06, 2015
Review of “Rearming Hinduism” REARMING HINDUISM: Nature, Hinduphobia and the Return of Indian Intelligence by...

January 2015

January 15, 2015
We often hear the words ‘career’ and ‘job’ being used interchangeably. However, the two terms...
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