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YAYATI MAHABHARATA
Work-life balance: Those who worked never enjoyed what they created. Now, they want their kids to do the sameOld rich men are the modern Yayatis. Yayati is a character from the Mahabharata who wanted to stay young and so begged his sons to give him...
Girish Karnad dug the past to mine the newKarnad was playwright, filmmaker, actor and public intellectual.
Narayana Murthy: The Bhishma who will not be pinned out of the battlefield so easilyFounding members of businesses cling to the throne, and to power, even after retirement, insisting they are guides, and mentors, but actual...
Pulping of Wendy Doniger’s book: How 'hurt sensibilities' of fringe groups muzzle scholarsIgnorance of the law is no defence against it. However, when one seeks to represent a culture or a nation, one expects better homework.
Lust for lifeYayati committed infidelity and was cursed by his father-in-law , the Sage Shukracharya, to lose his wife and virility but not his desire!
Have your cake and eat it tooWhat should people desire in life? The answer would depend on who is doing the desiring, and at what stage of life, and under what sort of ...