Why Do We Need Ram?
By MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI Some critics say that the ‘Ramayana’ and Ram’s example are irrelevant in the modern world. Their view is that in today’s age of science and technology, Ram’s path is too extreme...
View ArticleDigital Economy
By CATHERINE TUCKER Digital technology is the representation of information in bits. This reduces the cost of storage, computation and transmission of data. Research on digital economics examines...
View ArticleOf goodness, likes & dislikes
By Swami Sukhabodhananda A crow found a piece of meat. The moment it picked up the meat, other crows and eagles began chasing it. The crow soared higher and higher and the others chased it...
View ArticleBoost resource efficiency
By Vannessa Goodship In order to understand how best to recycle plastic it is necessary to know what the material is and how it is likely to behave. Plastics are made up of polymers and...
View ArticleHealthy mind, healthy body
Acharya Mahaprajna Mental health promotes physical health. The reverse is also true. The mind and the body are two mutually connected entities. However, the mind’s influence on the body is deeper than...
View ArticleThe Making Of Mahavir
By Malini Ajit Sanghvi Mahavir was a prince and was given the name Vardhaman by his parents. Around the age of 30, he left his family and royal household, gave up his worldly possessions in...
View ArticleManaging oneself
by Sigal Barsade Employees are not emotional islands. Rather, they continuously spread their own moods and receive, and are influenced by others’ moods, a phenomenon known as emotional contagion....
View ArticleSentience in a petri dish
by Narayani Ganesh Attempts to ‘grow’ the human brain in the laboratory from stem cells and brain matter have given rise to a curious debate: would lab-grown brains — called brain organoids — have the...
View ArticleBalance inner and outer
By Paul Brunton The antagonism between the meditative life and the practical life is only a supposed one, not a real one. If it exists at all, it exists only between their extreme and, therefore,...
View ArticleAmerican Identity
By David Roediger Democrats and Republicans vie for the lead in terms of promises to stand up for the putatively noble but chronically fragile middle strata of the class structure. Both parties praise...
View ArticleCentring of The Mind
By SWAMI SIVANANDA Once a Sanskrit scholar approached Kabir and asked him, ‘O Kabir, what are you doing now?’ Kabir replied, ‘O Pundit, I am detaching the mind from worldly objects and attaching it to...
View ArticleCost-Benefit Analyses
By JAY BHATTACHARYA ET AL Why should we assume that the market for healthcare is operating inefficiently or in need of any government intervention? For many years, economists did not treat health...
View ArticlePrescription For Living
By BAHA’U’LLAH Be generous in prosperity and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbour, and look upon him with a bright and friendly face. Be a treasure to the poor, an...
View ArticleCapital Issue
By WILLIAM GOETZMANN Stocks captivated the American imagination in the 1920s in a fundamentally different manner from the British investor movement of the Victorian era.… The Foreign and Colonial...
View ArticleZero Plus Zero is Zero
By ANANDMURTI GURUMAA Knowing oneself is the first step towards making good rapport not only with one’s own mind and body but also with the other. This other can be husband, wife, mother, father,...
View ArticleManaging Property
By VAIBHAV GUJRAL ET AL For investors and owners of office properties, 2020 was a rollercoaster year that left an unprecedented amount of office space empty for many months. Although working from home...
View ArticleBliss is eternal
By Swami Kriyananda What everyone really wants is bliss. Happiness is counterfeit: too much of it diffuses one’s very concept of bliss. To a mind full of attachments, bliss seems almost a threat. A...
View ArticleWorld As A Sanctuary
By NARAYANI GANESH A placewhere you can feel protected and be safe – that’s what the word ‘sanctuary’ means. In a sanctuary, all life is revered, and there is balance, harmony, peaceful coexistence and...
View ArticleMaharashtra Needs a Better Administration
By Keshav Upadhye The Shiv Sena-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government has given the people of Maharashtra more than one reason to complain about its incompetence in dealing with crisis situations....
View ArticleESG: a marathon, not a sprint
By Rajiv Memani & Shailesh Tyagi Just as the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated several trends such as technology adoption, supply chain transformation and digital consumer behaviour, it has also pushed...
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