I was at the dentist today. It’s so bad nowadays, so bad that I qualified for the clinic’s in-house rewards program. No I am serious. They have invested quite a bit (or so they think) into tech, and this includes a WhatsApp bot (intelligent they say, Bot I say) to schedule appointments, an app to …
Food. Yesterday – none of it. Today – too much of it. Yesterday was Ekādashi, and as usual, I fasted the whole day and night, with water and a banana when I felt the pangs. Today, as usual, I woke up and broke the fast with simple food that I cooked myself, and then had …
“In breathing, as in everything in life, the numbers are staggering—indeed fantastical. Every time you breathe, you exhale some 25 sextillion (that’s 2.5 x 1022) molecules of oxygen—so many that with a day’s breathing you will in all likelihood inhale at least one molecule from the breaths of every person who has ever lived.” “And every …
We love our watches, don’t we? Yes, their significance in actual timekeeping may have lessened, given the number of digital devices we have on us, but a watch is still a watch. Smart or not. So which watch is the best in the world? The obvious answer may be the one that keeps best time …
And we are in election mode again. Unless the “one nation one election” proposal is implemented, this election process will continue throughout the year, year-on-year, perpetually. One set of assembly elections gets over, panchayat elections take over. Then another set of assembly, and so on and so forth, until the Lok Sabha elections, and then …
ONE ART The art of losing isn’t hard to master;so many things seem filled with the intentto be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the flusterof lost door keys, the hour badly spent.The art of losing isn’t hard to master. Then practice losing farther, losing faster:places, and names, and …
“It’s better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.” You may have read this quote and many derivative formats, and it’s core message seems to be the same. Be yourself, and content on your own path rather than trying to imitate another and be somebody …
If the ship on which Theseus sailed has been so heavily repaired and nearly every part replaced, is it still the same ship — and, if not, at what point did it stop being the same ship? The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned had thirty oars, and was preserved by the …
Simplicity, talent and ideology all captured in one frame. From morning, I have read a lot of op-eds, each trying to outdo the other in paying tribute to her. Between nightingale, silence and loss of one’s voice (ah and yes, end of an era), everyone says nearly the same things, seemingly focusing more on the …
Rāmānujācharya was one of the most important exponents of the Sri Vasihnavism Sampradaya within Sanatana Dharma. He was also the proponent of the Viśiṣṭādvaita school of Vedānta. I must confess that I have not read much of his teachings, but I recall something I read a few years back, that I reproduce here: Whether we …
