Mystic’s Musings By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation The body has its own memory. Today, there is research going on in this direction. To put it in a simplified way — let us say your father, when he was a child, liked to play with round objects and he developed a certain level of involvement…
crumbling
August 6, 2026After century-old Maharani’s Science and Arts College… 143-year-old Maharani’s Junior College Mysuru: The heritage Maharani’s Junior College building on Narayana Shastri (NS) Road in city is in a dilapidated condition, but the students are forced to pursue their education under a grave threat. The 143-year-old structure was built during the princely rule in the year…
Accounting Rivals and Saints
August 6, 2026By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist Originally Brahmins were simply transmitters of the Veda. Later, as keepers of dharma-shastra, they offered administrative services to kings. From the 10th century AD, they faced enormous competition from a rival caste group offering scribal, accounting and advisory services — the Kayasthas. Brahmins had a ritually…
The phone that was smarter than me
August 5, 2026By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam There comes a moment in every man’s life when he realises that the world has quietly marched ahead and forgotten to leave him a note. Mine arrived the morning my old phone, a faithful companion of many years, decided it had laboured enough and began switching itself off in the middle…
Vintage Vignettes … from a Princely State
August 3, 2026By R.G. Singh, Secretary, Ramsons Kala Pratishtana “My noble Prince, this life is short. The vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive. One such high, noble minded and royal son of India as Your Highness can do much towards rising India…
CJP Protest: IQ Vs EQ
August 1, 2026The CJP (Cockroach Janta Party) protests and the Government’s response revealed something far bigger than a controversy over a leaked examination paper. They exposed a clash between two generations, each convinced that the other is fundamentally broken. Ask the older generations about Gen Z and you’ll hear familiar complaints such as, they are intellectually lazy, with…
Guru: A path to the Divine
July 31, 2026Mystic’s Musings By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation Today modern science is proving that everything you know as existence is all just one energy manifesting itself in millions of ways. Or in other words, if everything is one energy, the difference between the rock and what you call as human, is just a question of…
Re-centring the Hindu Goddess
July 30, 2026By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist If you only consume today’s festival talk, you would think India’s calendar is a relay race between Ram and Krishna. That is a late narrowing. The older seasonal spine is goddess-centred and nature-driven. It was about paying attention to the weather, to the vegetation, to the…
Brains we have… institutions we don’t
July 29, 2026By Dr. B.S. Ajaikumar As the CJP protest comes to an end and students return to their drudgery we have to ask, why do hundreds of thousands of bright Indian students pack their bags for overseas Universities. Not because India lacks talent. But because India has failed, for over seven decades, to build enough world-class…
The real power of quiet authority
July 29, 2026By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam I attended a function the other day where the chief guest arrived twenty minutes late and the entire hall rose as though a great wind had passed through it. What struck me was not the man himself but the small army that preceded him. There was someone to carry his folder,…















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