The Benefits of Being Socially Ostracized

What are the benefits of being socially ostracized? I have experienced these benefits myself and so can speak about them. I will list them below: I used to read a lot of self help books when I was young and one sentence in a book by Napoleon Hill really stands out. He says, “Every adversity, […]

A Doctrine of Hatred

Indian society and culture have been shaped by the communal violence that accompanied the partition in 1947 into India, East and West Pakistan. Thankfully all these events occurred well before I was born and have not been repeated on the same scale as happened then. But it scarred the psyche of the country and much […]

The Appropriate Response to Fanaticism

This is going to be a short article as whatever I have to say has, I think, been said by two of the greatest philosophers of history. The question is – Should fanaticism be opposed with fanaticism or should it be opposed through democratic means? In India, in the decades past, there was a tit […]