Monthly Archives: June 2017

Youth is the time when important life decisions must be made and if energies are not channelized well during this period one may face a lifetime of regrets and unhappiness. It is at this time that the presence of an understanding master transforms one’s vision of life and helps discover one’s inner potential.

The Scholar misses the essential. Books, information, theories and logical constructions divert him from what really matters: the fragrance of the flower, not the theory of the flower. However, the Sufi carries the inner light; he experiences and realizes. With his characteristic lucidity Osho—the mystic philosopher—takes us to the world of Sufi stories.

As the iconic Champaran movement completes its 100 years it is time we invoke the Gandhian spirit of social transformation and collective mobilization. In the contemporary age plagued with severe challenges his ideas are relevant than ever before, reminding us over and over again of the need for social change through collective action.

Rethinking Education in the light of the Board Examinations We are aware of the many tructural constraints of the Indian education system among these what...

SAY ‘NO’ TO “SMART CITIES”  Here is a reflexive piece that interrogates the idea of ‘smart’ cities, and pleads for the recovery of the...

GANDHI AND HIS CASTE The recent controversy revolving around M.K. Gandhi which involved labelling him a ‘chatur Baniya’ has attracted people’s attention. The left and...

What has failed: Children or the System? Each year the results of the Board Examinations reveal the poor condition of the Indian education system which...

Hindi medium: A case to understand the social imagination of “a good school” In the age of hyper consumption education has been transformed into a...