(Based on a series of WhatsApp posts over the last few days) Modernity is embedded in the systems we are compelled to live in. Systems we cannot do anything about. That is a fact. More importantly, at the level of perceiving (drishti), modernity creates drishti doshas. Something can be done here at the individual level.…

(The first part of this post was published last week and is available here…) Let us look at lokeshna and its relationship with individualism. I may be wrong but I am proposing that people who step-out tend to fall into the trap of lokeshna—almost unconsciously—to cope with loneliness and, of course, because of the disease…

People, who are sensitive to the happenings around, who are socially and politically aware and who have the courage to take a step to move out of their comfort zone and ‘do something’ to make a difference, face a lot of difficulties. After the initial enthusiasm (momentum) wears off the loneliness strikes. There is a…