Under-evaluation and Over-evaluation
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There is a wonderful short story by Anton Chekhov called ‘Overdoing it’. Here is an extract. . . . It was dusk by the time the cart drove out of the station. On the surveyor’s right hand stretched a dark,…
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Keeping Our Cities Clean
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Read more: Keeping Our Cities CleanMy daughter stays on the first floor of an independent house in Bangalore. When she first moved into this house she tried to figure out how to get her garbage disposed. The landlady downstairs has her daily help take the…
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Sangoshthi on Bharatiyata at Kaneri Math
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Read more: Sangoshthi on Bharatiyata at Kaneri Mathजीविका आश्रम, इन्द्राना, मध्यप्रदेश व सिद्ध, मसूरी, उत्तराखण्ड के संयुक्त तत्वाधान में दिनांक 2 से 5 नवम्बर, 2023 को कणेरी मठ्ठ, कोल्हापुर, महाराष्ट्र में एक संगोष्ठी आयोजित हुई। संगोष्ठी में देश के विभिन्न प्रान्तों से 7 संस्थानों से जुड़े लगभग…
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On Toxic Relationships
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Read more: On Toxic RelationshipsI was talking to a friend about his toxic relationship with an elderly relative and thought that the controversial insight that came up is worth recording in a post here. Friend: I talked to my old aunt last night and…
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On Pointless Jobs
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Read more: On Pointless JobsIn August, 2013, the American anthropologist David Graeber wrote a tentative essay about the pointlessness of most modern jobs. The essay, that went viral, was later expanded into a book published in 2018, ‘Bullshit Jobs – A Theory’. The book…
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Livelihood Vs Life
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Read more: Livelihood Vs LifeThere is a story that when the British wanted the weavers of Bengal to produce more cloth, the first response of the weavers was to refuse. The British who had assumed that more money would be an incentive to produce…
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SIDH Samvaad at Varanasi
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Read more: SIDH Samvaad at VaranasiThe 4-day SIDH samvaad centred around reading and discussing Dharampalji’s Bharatiya Chitta Manas Aur Kaal has just concluded. The samvaad was held at the Krishnamurti Study Centre set in the 100-year-old, 300-acre, wooded campus that also has the Rajghat Besant…
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A Film Review
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Read more: A Film ReviewRecently I saw a wonderful Malayalam movie, ‘Nanpakal nerathu mayakkam’ (titled ‘Like an afternoon dream’ in English). The movie, directed by Lijo Jose Pellissery with Mammootty in the lead role, tells a simple but strange story. A Christian group from…
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What is wrong with the Western political class?
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Read more: What is wrong with the Western political class?I came across an article that I thought had many important insights about the Western political establishment. Here are some excerpts: Excerpt 1:A breakdown of diplomacy doesn’t quite describe how bad things have become. The behavior of US and European…
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Advice to a young educator – Part 2
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Read more: Advice to a young educator – Part 2(Continued from last week…) Young potential educator (Ype): I am not saying that I agree with you but you have certainly given me some food for thought. Tell me some more about modern education. Me: Let us look at it…
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Advice to a young educator
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Read more: Advice to a young educatorI was talking to a young man who wanted to leave his corporate job and go back to his town to start a school and I thought that the (slightly exaggerated version of the) conversation we had may be useful…
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The Crisis of Global Liberalism
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Read more: The Crisis of Global LiberalismExcerpts from an interview of Alexander Dugin, Russian philosopher and author of over 70 books: Question: If Liberalism won against its only competitors – Communism and Fascism, where does the crisis of global Liberalism come from? – Till Communism and…
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