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‘One’s class, wealth, position, power or education doesn’t make one wise, refined, reformed, humble or emancipated. These virtues are precious gifts from nature. One can’t buy, learn or acquire them. Material detachment and humility may be two of the doorways to receive them from nature. Despite this philosophical realisation, a […]

“It is said ‘absolute power corrupts absolutely’. In your corrupted form, you will become arrogant, overconfident, boisterously proud and ruthless. You will develop a short fuse and tend to lose temper on facing even the slightest challenges and provocations from your critics. You will tend to speak without thinking, as […]

“Physically, we may seem to be living in one world that we see with our eyes, hear with our ears and feel with our hands. Realistically, however, we live in several worlds, sometimes concurrently. Based on our individual beliefs and superstitions, perspectives and imaginations, knowledge and understanding of the cosmos, […]

“Nature does not respect weak and meek. As per law of nature, weaker life-forms are consumed (mercilessly) by relatively strong and powerful. Plants hardly put up any defence against animals, although some plants are known to be carnivores. Animals consume plants – fruits, vegetables, roots, herbs etc. – at will. […]

“Wisdom may be the only gift that could set humans apart from machines otherwise, in terms of intelligence, humans may soon become comparable and possibly find themselves as inferior to intelligent machines. Logically, the day may not be very far when humans may find themselves in an awkward state of […]

‘At her cremation, he whispered, “Mother, I’ll join you soon on the other side. I pray you find peace at last.” It was like one of their numerous parting hugs at airports. As usual, his eyes were wet, but on this occasion, his hands shivered; they had just consigned her […]

“Unselfish empathy, compassion and care, without bias or discrimination,  define the humanity in its best form. It is better to be a good human before becoming anything else. Expecting others to be good first, as a condition, before taking the necessary initiatives to be good does not help us or […]

‘“To err is human and to forgive, divine”, goes an old English saying, from a poem, An Essay on Criticism, by Alexander Pope (1688–1744), a famous English writer.  Two more famous quotes are also from his poems: (a) A little learning is a dang’rous thing; and (b) Fools rush in where angels fear to […]

“What goes around comes around; that is karma. What goes up must come down; that is gravity. A day is followed by night and winter is followed by summer. Things keep going round and round. We come from nothing and return to nothing, and that is the truth of life. […]

“India, home to 1.37 billion people and the world’s largest democracy, with about 900 million eligible voters, is  feverishly celebrating an election festival at present, with such unbelievable euphoria. Alarmingly, none of the real issues facing and undermining the country – population, pollution, corruption, education and women security issues – […]