2014
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Differential Values
Everyone assumes they have values. Problem is that their values are different from other people’s values.
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Customer is not the Only God
The attribution of ‘devata-hood’ to every thing and everyone was an attempt to draw attention to the uniqueness of all things. Nothing was without value.
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Don’t ask me that question!
In modern management, we are supposed to look at people only as a set of skills. We hire them for their skills and we pay them for skills provided. Period. Nothing more. Nothing less.
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Objective fact vs subjective truth: A textbook fight
A quick look at some (not all, one must repeatedly clarify) of recent books about Indian culture authored by Western scholars reveals a rather disturbing tilt in the interpretations of objective data.
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What Is ‘Indianisation’ Of Education?
What we choose to teach our children reveals our prejudices and our hierarchies: it shows us up – what we consider to be true and worthy knowledge and what we dismiss as irrelevant and false – whether we are parochial,…
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Meaning of Bhagavan
The word bhagavan is traced to the word bhaga, which means share. Bhaga also means womb, or material delight, or even fate.
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Mother Brahmi
When I hear stories of how Ganesha acted as a scribe and wrote down the Mahabharata dictated by Vyasa or how Hanuman wrote his Ramayana on leaves, or the name of Rama on the rocks used to build the bridge…
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Never-complete and Ever-Changing truths
The world is constantly changing. Nothing lasts forever. Nothing is fixed. Seasons change. Societies rise and fall. Contexts change. Reasons change. Values come and go. Meanings shift. So ‘the truth’ is never complete and always changing.
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Pink Things to Good People
We are conditioned to believe the mythology of ‘fairness and justice’ popularized in recent time, and yet despite the complex of well-meaning laws, bad things continue to happen to good people.
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Cradle of Monotheism
When empires came into being, emperors believed their god was the greater god, and he was the chosen man, and his people were the chosen people.
