Society
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Why corporate CEOs often resist talent management
Like parents who feel their children are not as good as them, most leaders feel their successors are not as good as them.
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From intellectual Gita to sensory Gita
Non-cognitive ways are as valid to evoke the exact same feelings that Gita seeks to evoke cognitively.
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How many times should we do it, God?
How similar people are around the world, in different times, in different places, for all their apparent differences.
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Delightful truths of cult leaders
To be a cult leader you need to have fans who believe everything you say, evidence notwithstanding, and are willing to attack, sometimes violently, those who criticise you or your ideas.
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Tale of the dragonfly
I wondered what prompted the great astrophysicist, who spent his entire life studying the sun, to tell the tale of the dragonfly.
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In a Traditional Relationship With Shiny Surfaces
The greatest tragedy in the world is not to be able to see oneself.
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Making Gita a Rashtriya Granth may confuse the world
From being Gandhi’s moral basis for non-violence to capturing essential mystical truths for Aurobindo, the text means different things to different people.
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Self-styled saints and registered saints
To be a saint, one not only needs to be holy (that can be disputed) but also have followers (that can be proved).
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Vegetarianism and the idea of untouchability
The simple act of eating vegetarian food has become more political than it ever was.
