philosophy
Speaking River, Speaking Rain

Languages, in complex ways, are braided together with living ecologies and places.

टागोर, दीनो दान – अनुवाद – त्याच वर्षी, राजाधिराज (in Marathi)

"या जगासमोर, हे राजाधिराज, तुम्ही देवाला नव्हे, तर स्वतःलाच मांडले आहे." संत म्हणाला.

The Impoverished Gift

"Upon the jewel-studded throne- the lonesome Deity Suffers silently in ultimate rejection.”

Lord Ram and His not very Humble Abode

Does the grand Ayodhya temple ceremony ensure that the common Indian will find Ram in this temple?

“The Plant that is not One”

Plants in adivasi spaces may have been looked at as soulful living and growing organisms that had intelligence ...

कबीर सिर्फ संत नहीं, बदलाव के प्रतीक हैं (in Hindi)

मालवा में कबीर भजन मंडलियों में जीवंत हैं, जो नियमित तौर पर उन्हें गाते हैं, सुनते हैं, गुनते हैं, उसमें कुछ जोड़ते घटाते हैं।

The mainstreaming education

Is education facilitating turning away of the educated from the masses, from practice, from agriculture, from culture and from nature?

A Room with Many Views

The idea that we can deploy uniquely Indian alternative responses to global issues is a fascinating one. It created the non-aligned movement.

Think like a civilisation

India as a civilisation has given the world some of its most creative concepts of peace, inspired by Buddha, Nanak, Kabir, Ghaffar Khan and Gandhi.