Moonballs from Planet Earth

Jiddu Krishnamurthy was the chosen one. He was the messiah. He had been anointed as the messiah, as the World Teacher, the new Maitreya, by ...

My family I are hooked on a TV miniseries called WandaVision.  WandaVision is a part of the Marvel-verse - an alternative reality with many...

Tiger Woods on the importance of winning How far does one go to win?  As far as one possibly can.  Most sportsmen would agree with Tiger Woo...

Goddess Lakshmi Deepavali's Presiding Deity It is Deepavali today. We’re going to play cards in the evening. We always have. It’s  a tra...

Samudra Manthan My children were listening to a story. I was sitting with them, squirming with discomfort. The story was Samudra Man...

St Michael Yesterday, Saint Michael saved me from a terrible fate. I could have wasted my Friday evening watching the Indian cricket ...

"Our works do not ennoble us; we must ennoble our works" - Meister Eckhart. I came across these words at a corporate...

"Oftentimes have I heard you speak of one who commits a wrong as though he were not one of you, but a stranger unto you and an intru...

Came across another classically inspired poem. This time, I didn't randomly spot it on the tube. It came to my inbox in a farewell e...

Ox Travels has been resident on my bedside table for several months now. This is a collection of stories by travel writers, each story ...

"Why don't we teach our children compassion?".  Roshi Joan Halifax asked this question in the TED talk I posted about l...

"Compassion has enemies...like pity, and moral outrage..." I came across these words in a TED talk by the Buddhist Roshi Joan H...

I read, and enjoyed, a book that called Christ a scoundrel. The book is by Philip Pullman, a well known atheist. Pullman isn’t being su...

Jalaluddin Rumi was wandering the streets of Konya, overcome with grief at the death of a dear friend, when he was captured by the rhythmic ...

"And then a scholar said, Speak of Talking. And he answered, saying... In much of your talking, thinking is half-murdered. For thought ...

“So, Prithvi, we have heard that Indians mostly have arranged marriages. Is this true? How does that work?” I was out at dinner with ...

Homogocene : the term ecologists and evolutionary biologists use to describe the current era, when ecosystems are becoming more homogeni...

This post is being published on December 25 to honour a deity whose birth is traditionally celebrated on this day: the sun god, Mithras . ...

Sachin Tendulkar and Cheteshwar Pujara Cheteshwar Pujara, looking back on his test debut, remembers that “ he (Sachin) told me that God ...