“According to Manusmiriti, there are six policies of dealing with such an issue – Sandhi (peace treaty), Vigraha (war), Yaana (preparation for war), Asana (neutrality), Samsraya (forming alliances) and Dvaidhibhava (double-dealing or pretending to be friendly). So please discuss among yourselves and let us reach a consensus on how we are going to tackle this …
न विश्वसेत् पूर्व-विरोधितस्य शत्रोश् च मित्रत्वम् उपागतस्य ।दग्धां गुहां पश्य उलूक-पूर्णां काक-प्रणीतेन हुताशनेन ॥ १ ॥ na viśvaset pūrva-virodhitasya śatroś ca mitratvam upāgatasya |dagdhāṃ guhāṃ paśya ulūka-pūrṇāṃ kāka-praṇītena hutāśanena || 1 || One should not trust a person who has been an enemy before, but now offers the hand of friendship. Look at the cave, that was …
Read part 1 – Miles to go – here… So, what lies ahead? Before we get to that, a question for you. How many of you ‘know’ your grandfather? By know, I mean what he was all about. His daily life, his joys, the challenges he encountered, his friends, colleagues…let me put it this way. …
And so we finished the second book of the Panchatantra – Mitra Samprāpti. With it, comes a new layout to the website. A few tucks here, a few nips there, and hey and pesto…you cannot find anything anymore:| If that’s how you feel, then do excuse me while I complete the mammoth exercise of collating …
Work hard…or work joyfully? I read an insightful blog by Paul Graham a few years back – it was about “How to do what you love.” Paul says that when growing up, “life had two states: some of the time adults were making you do things, and that was called work; the rest of the …
How ‘unbreakable’ are you? I’ve been watching this sitcom on Netflix – Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. For those who haven’t watched it, UKS is about a girl who goes about her life after being rescued from a doomsday cult. Although she pretty much received a raw deal for a larger part of her life, Kimmy refuses …
One year on, the feeling lingers… Winning is not everything, it is how one conducts oneself in defeat that matters. The biggest scientists, the leader of over 1 billion people – are humans after all. And sometimes, it is more important to feel human, than to keep it all inside and cry. A leader is …
So when is the tech bubble going to burst? This year has been the one of the worst on record, with GDPs across the board plunging, not dipping. Yet the tech mania seems to continue – the latest entrant being Ant Financial. For those who lived through the Dotcom boom of 1999, and it’s subsequent …
Read the previous part here… The hunter arrived at the scene as Mantharaka was speaking. He strung an arrow on his bow, pulled the bowstring all the way to his ear, and…. He strung an arrow on his bow, pulled the bowstring all the way to his ear, and got ready to kill the deer. …
Read the previous part here… After waiting for more than two hours, Mantharaka told LaghuPatanaka “My dear friend, Hiranyaka and me are too slow and will take forever to comb the forest looking for him. So can you please fly around and see if you can find Chitraanga?” LaghuPatanaka immediately agreed and rushed off to …
