On the Bhagavad Gita
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“The Gita can only be understood, like any other great work of the kind, by studying it in its entirety and as a developing argument. But the modern interpreters, starting from the great writer Bankim Chandra Chatterji who first gave…
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Visit to an organic farm
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Read more: Visit to an organic farm(A few days ago, I went to the yearly function of a large organic farm near Bangalore. The morning pre-lunch session had many interesting talks about diet, lifestyle, sustainability etc. and it was all very intense and contemplative. At the…
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Ghar Wapsi
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Read more: Ghar Wapsi(The following is extracted from a long note Pawanji wrote on the SIDH WhatsApp group) Since 2014, a sharp divide has emerged in the Bharatiya samaj. No, I am not talking of the Hindu-Muslim, or the caste, or the rich-poor…
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Who Am I?
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Read more: Who Am I?Sri Ramana Maharshi, in 1902, wrote out the answers to some questions asked by a disciple seeking spiritual guidance. These questions and answers, collected together as ‘Nan Yaar?’ or ”Who Am I?’, give a short introduction to self-enquiry as a…
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What are our retreats about?
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Read more: What are our retreats about?(The following is collected together from messages written by Pawanji on a WhatsApp group) In the retreats that SIDH has been organising over the recent past, we have tried to invite only those who in our opinion are more or…
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Learning to learn – Part 2
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Read more: Learning to learn – Part 2Part 1 of this post talks about the first of the two books on ‘Learning to learn’. Here are some excerpts from the second book, ‘Learning to learn – Ideas on implementation’. Excerpt 1: The Annual Status of Education Report…
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North and South
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Read more: North and SouthMy wife and I prefer to travel sleeper class and not in the AC coaches on the many 12+ hour train journeys we do. We have a simple rule – when we travel anywhere in South India, we buy sleeper…
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Announcing a two week break
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Read more: Announcing a two week breakThe first post on this blog was written on 23rd November 2020, just over three years ago. The blog has 158 posts that broadly cover the areas of education and modernity. The next post here will appear on 25th December…
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Why China Survived Its Dark Ages
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Read more: Why China Survived Its Dark AgesIn his last week’s blog post, John Michael Greer talked about the reasons for China’s culture continuing more or less intact after repeated collapses, while so many other civilizations rose, fell, and vanished. I thought that the insights in the…
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Satya Anirvachaniya Hai
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Read more: Satya Anirvachaniya Hai(To a question on WhatsApp about stark contradictions in what Osho says, for example that Krishna is great in one talk and Krishna is no good in another, Pawanji responded in the following manner. I thought it needed to be…
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Under-evaluation and Over-evaluation
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Read more: Under-evaluation and Over-evaluationThere 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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