We have been fighting wars since the beginning of recorded human history. The Mahabharata documented the most devastating war ancient India ever witnessed. 18 days of battle on the plains of Kurukshetra. 18 million human beings dead. An entire civilization brought to the edge of annihilation. And at the end of it, when the last arrow had fallen and the last warrior had collapsed on blood soaked ground, the victor sat on his throne and wept. B
THE ONLY TRUTH NOBODY WANTS TO FACE. What losing my father taught me about the one appointment none of us can cancel. We are all chasing something. Money, status, power, relationships, wealth, recognition, security, the next goal, the next milestone, the next thing that will finally make us feel that we have arrived somewhere worth arriving. We spend our entire lives in this chase, breathless and relentless, convinced that whatever we are
Three Kailash journeys. Seven years. What I learned that no book could have taught me. Every time I try to describe Kailash, I fail. Not because words are inadequate, but because Kailash does something to words. It makes them feel small in a way that nothing else does. No scripture prepares you for it. No traveller’s account does justice to it. You stand before that mountain and something in you goes completely quiet without being asked. No
For every father whose love was too large for words. And every child who understood it too late. The world has always known how to celebrate a mother’s love. We have songs for it, poems for it. Entire traditions built around honouring it, and rightly so. A mother’s love is visible, present, expressed in a thousand daily acts of care that surround a child from the very first breath. But there is another love. Quieter. Less celebrated. R
On International Yoga Day, the question almost nobody is asking: what was this actually built to do? Today, millions of people across the world will roll out a mat. Studios from Los Angeles to London to Sydney to Mumbai will be full. Social media will fill with photographs of perfect headstands, perfect backbends, perfect stillness held in perfect light. The global yoga industry, now worth billions of dollars annually, will mark its bigges
Introduction Throughout history, humanity's relentless pursuit to comprehend the cosmos and its own existence has led to the formation of diverse religious beliefs and scientific theories. This journey, rich in its diversity and depth, often converges on the idea of a supreme, all-encompassing divine force. In the quest to understand the universe and our place in it, various cultures and religions have conceptualized the divine in myriad f