Life and Spirituality

, A  path  leads to the gate at front of author's home O ur world has both, the beautiful and the ugly at different times and different places. While focusing on the ugly tends to dissipate us, the beautiful charges and inspires. Yet, it does become necessary to focus on the ugly whenever a desire arises to see it eradicated. It is from this point of view that this blog focuses time and again on it, as in the last post attention was drawn to severe income and wealth inequalities that exist in our world today causing severe distress for very many humans and an earlier one on the violence humans perpetuate even in acquisition of food. While talking about this in a group discussion, a friend, Aditya Thakur, said that these have always been around and even if the one percent of the world were removed, another one percent would come to replace them. My answer was that some such things did happen after the French revolution and the communist revolutions of bygone eras, ye...

Shri Narendra Modi in shades of  NAMO  Blue S ome things that used to take months or years of research a few decades ago can now be done amazingly in a few minutes with the help of new technologies and services.   Just as an example, if we wished to search for the best dressed persons in the world today who are also regarded as some of the most beautiful humans on the planet, one can do that in seconds provided the right key words for that are used in a google search, and voila within seconds, with a high degree of accuracy you would have all the persons with their images neatly compiled on one page as this blogger discovered by using the search terms. What is even more significant is that it is a living list that is updated on a continuous basis. There are other famous agencies and organizations in the world that put out similar lists from time to time. However this list has the advantage that it is discovered on the basis of the best available computer...