You will notice that I have said, a powerful impression, not necessarily a good impression. If that does not deter you read on. The best way to impress people is by not giving a damn what they think of you. Quoting from Emerson’s essay on Self Reliance: Honor is venerable to us because it is […]
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Take the Good with the Bad
The point I want to make in this article is that right and wrong, good and bad are joined at the hip. You can no more separate the good from the bad as you can have a right without a left. I’ll start with a quote from the Taoist masters: When everyone recognises beauty as […]
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 […]
Napoleon Bonaparte on being slandered
I am supposing there is nobody reading this post, who is of a mature age, who has not been slandered. In this day and age libel suits and claims for damages are mounting and making the headlines. Recently Anil Ambani filed a suit against NDTV for Rs 10,000 crores as damages. His accountants and lawyers […]
The Essential Principle of Life according to Socrates
This article will be about two of the most essential general principles to live by. I can do no better than to quote the philosopher, Paul Brunton, in his own words. The following passage is taken from his book The Secret Path. I would have liked to live in Athens at the time when one […]