By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation Sadhguru: What we call as education is just an organised approach to the fundamental human longing to know, to be free from ignorance. What areas of knowledge open up in an individual’s life varies from person to person, but every human being essentially wants to be free from the…
By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist There are two forms of Hanuman. In one he sits at the feet of Ram, an obedient assistant. This is Ram-dasa Hanuman. In the other, he stands alone, displaying ten hands and four extra heads: that of a lion, an eagle, a wild boar and a…
By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam I have spent a considerable part of my life trying to understand shoe size. Not in the literal sense. I know what a size nine is. I have worn one for decades without philosophical confusion. What baffles me is the way we use the idea of shoe size as a proxy…
By Maj. Gen. (Retd.) S.G. Vombatkere Politicians and bureaucrats view city development as constructing flyovers and widening roads. In the context of citizens’ objections to the felling of 561 trees for National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) projects in and around Mysuru, our MP stated that these proposed development works “will go ahead while protecting…
By R.G. Singh, Secretary, Ramsons Kala Pratishtana Title : The State Entry into Delhi.1907. Artist : Roderick Dempster Mackenzie, (1865-1941) Size : 366×289.8 cms. Oil on canvas. Collection : Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery This painting captures the impressive grandeur of the 1903 Delhi Durbar main entry procession which consisted of 48 Maharajas seated…
Meet The Neighbours’ is one of those sweet comedies so full of subtle and not-so-subtle humour, ideally suited for an intimate theatre ambience, which the JCAC amphi-theatre Angala, provides so appropriately. In this staged-reading production, the middle-class couple, Ted & Carol, so well-presented by Shashi & Nima, are a quintessential pair who are, kind of,…
By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation In the body that you carry right now, what came out of your mother’s womb is hardly there — it is mostly gone. Today, whatever the number of kilograms you carry, it is all from mother earth. I am not trying to belittle the genetic or biological mother, it…
Mythri Charitable Trust nurtures abilities, builds confidence and empowers special children By Alankrita Latkar and S.N. Venkatnag Sobers Caring for children requires patience and attention. But nurturing specially-abled children demands something more: Dedication, compassion and unwavering commitment. For over four decades, Mysuru-based Mythri Charitable Trust has quietly embodied all three through its Mythri Special School,…
By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist When we think of creation myths in our country, we usually jump to the big Sanskrit stories: Brahma sitting on a lotus, Vishnu sleeping on the serpent, Shiva dancing the cosmos into being. But India is not just Vedas and Puranas. India is also Bhil, Gond,…
By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam There is something profoundly democratic about hailing a cab through an app. You open it with great optimism, as if you are about to solve a complex equation. The app responds by showing you seventeen drivers, all of them suspiciously close, all moving in directions that have nothing to do with…
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