Learning from Hunters and Gatherers
Where humans have multiple partners, does monkeys have multiple partners too? Where humans love sea food, does birds love seafood…
Cognitive Dissonance
Would you kill something because you feel empathy towards it? I don’t mean killing it to reduce its suffering, but…
Travel narrows the mind – G. K. Chesterton
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” However,…
The Power of Hope and Meaning: How Faith Can Heal or Harm
Faith can move mountains. It can kill you too. In the realm of human experience, faith is a potent force,…
Milinda and Nagasena: The Art of Debating
King Milinda was a powerful and intelligent ruler. He was also curious about Buddhism. One day, he met a sage…
Evolution of Durga – Connecting with the World
Travelling by train from Xian to Moscow, and interacting with different people of totally different cultures, I have come to…
SECRET OF SUCCESS: ADDED PERSONBYTE THROUGH TEAMWORK
Information is not the things that make it, but rather the pattern in which things are arranged. The accident altered…
Kamakhya Temple: Story of love lust anger and sacrifice
“Indian gods and goddesses are personal, down-to-earth and human-like, despite their powers.” We started from our hotel at Guwahati on…
A Case for Empathy
From ‘I think therefore I am’ era we have landed into the post-truth era of ‘I believe, therefore I am…
Female Fatale
Female Fatale. Sketch By Subhrashis Adhikari Since antiquity, women had silently left their mark on the world, and at times…