The late British philosopher and writer Alan Watts is perhaps best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy in the Wes...

A great deal was written about Jarasandha, the King of Magadha, and his refusal to accept Krishna as an incarnation or a god.

“As a rule (however), man views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-fivehundred heartbeats an h...

Life can and should be a continuous celebration — albeit without the bubbly constantly flowing if we don’t want to end up the Omar Khayyam ...

Oscar Wilde said, "You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit." Is Wilde makin...

In the traditional Newari culture of Nepal, which traditionally has had deep roots with Sikkim, the bael tree is part of a fertility ritual...

People slip. It happens to almost everyone. They lose their bearings, their feet slither under, they miss their mooring.

Largely thanks to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), an unprecedented number of journalists, writers and academics are seeking popular mandate this...

It’s funny how so many writers and intellectuals get the apocryphal story of England’s King Canute wrong.

In spite of yoga having become a $27-billion industry in the US commercialisation had caused adeep disconnect with the spirit of the ancien...

Some four million people today own autonomous robotic home cleaners that wet mop and vacuum rooms on their own and also clean window glasse...

Stanley Kubrick once half-jokingly told an interviewer that the film was actually a happy one because “any story about ghosts proves there ...

The divide between knowledge and wisdom is not a thin line but a yawning chasm, and at least one famous persona.

A survey showed a third of philosophers believed personal ego would survive; a third thought it would perish and the rest believed in somet...

On the way down, one can formulate theories of what the ground underneath our life is like and what it means to hit it headfirst.

But are there other people who perhaps unknowingly participate in their dying as they do in their living? People who actually script their ...

In real un-Hindu Mukul was ticked off by the powers that be to not screw around with reality in future.