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(Published in The Speaking Tree column of the Times of India on March 13, 2024) What if an actor won an Oscar only based on the character he portrays and not the quality of his acting? Won’t that be unfair? Our lives in this physical world are a lila, play, in the mind of Brahmn. […]

(Published in the Sunday Speaking Tree of The Times of India on February 10, 2019) Recently Elon Musk said that he believes it is entirely possible that our physical world is a highly advanced virtual reality game being played by our advanced future selves. But what if it’s way more glorious than that? Think about

(Published in the Speaking Tree, The Times of India April 12, 2018) Sometimes we don’t understand life – the things that happen to us or in some cases, that don’t happen to us. But the important thing to remember is that life on earth is about evolving spiritually, and this is not only about meditation

(Published in The Speaking Tree column of The Times of India Edit Page May 22, 2017) Yamuna Pushta is an embankment of jhuggis (hutments) behind Raj Ghat, Delhi, on the banks of the Yamuna River. I had gone there in 1995, as a reporter for a Delhi-based evening newspaper, to cover a story about drug

(Published in The Speaking Tree Column, Edit Page, Times of India, August 24, 2016) Many people fear that becoming one with God means they will cease to exist as an individual soul. But you will never cease to exist; you will always have your identity, awareness and consciousness. What will change are the boundaries of

(Times of India, Speaking Tree Column, Edit Page, October 20, 2015) Unless we experience darkness, we will never value the light. Everybody has experienced or is experiencing some kind. Sometimes it is a lonely place to be in. You get the feeling of being alone and disconnected. Worry and doubt seem to be ‘solutions’ when

(Published in The Speaking Tree, The Times of India – Jan 11, 2014) Life, is the greatest show on Earth. But imagine a story without conflict. Would it even be called a story? Every successful novel or drama has to have conflict in order to be interesting. Imagine a novel about a mundane ordinary existence,

(Published in The Speaking Tree, The Times of India – August 29, 2013) The simple art of passive observation is something that is becoming a rarity. In today’s world we are many times obsessed with ‘doing’ something. In the car, we are either driving, listening to music, reading or talking on our cellphones. Or we

(Published in The Speaking Tree, The Times of India – June 3, 2013) Before Galileo Galilei and Nicholas Copernicus, we lived in a geocentric solar system. This was the truth that was the accepted one. This was excepted by the church, the governments, the scientists, the philosophers and the common people of the day. There