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Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah: Prosperity and Happiness for All

Book By Sanjeev Kumar ​Sanjeev Kumar’s masterpiece “Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah: Prosperity and Happiness for All” presents an inspiring narrative focused on human values and ethics such as kindness, integrity and fairness, along with social responsibility in a world increasingly driven by material living, success and achievement. Deriving its title from an ancient Indian prayer wishing […]
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वरिष्ठ नागरिक साठ के बाद स्वस्थ और सेहतमंद कैसे रहें?

साठ वर्ष की आयु के बाद जीवन के परिदृश्य को समझने के लिए केवल डरावनी सुर्खियों से आगे देखना आवश्यक है और बुढ़ापे को उसके वास्तविक रूप में पहचानना होगा—यानी जैविक, रूपात्मक और शारीरिक विकास की एक स्वाभाविक और निरंतर प्रक्रिया के रूप में। जैसे-जैसे मानव शरीर और मन परिपक्व होते हैं, मस्कुलोस्केलेटल (हड्डियों और […]
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Beat the Blues: Wellness Strategies After Sixty

​Understanding the landscape of life after 60 years requires looking beyond alarmist headlines and recognizing aging for what it truly is i.e., a natural and continuous process of organic, morphological and physiological evolution. As the human body and mind mature, natural shifts occur across the musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, metabolic systems and state of mind—ranging from altered […]
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Hindu, Hinduism and Hindustan: Part LXXXVII

Misconception and Misunderstandings – III (B)  Sociology and Culture For the last few centuries, Sanatana Dharma has frequently been analysed and evaluated, particularly by the Western sources, through their socio-religious lenses, thereby reducing an open, vibrant and liberal millennia-old cultural matrix into some rigid stereotypes. Critics and outside scholars/observers often confuse late-historical distortions, local customs, […]
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My Journey to the South Block and Beyond

Autobiography by Somi Tandon It was a pleasure to read the autobiography of Ms. Somi Tandon, my senior colleague and a retired civil servant from the Indian Defence Accounts Service. Like many other accomplished women from various walks of life, she acknowledges that her father, Late Shri Prem Chand Tandon, was her greatest inspiration and […]
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Hindu, Hinduism and Hindustan: Part LXXXVI

Misconception and Misunderstandings -II (A)  Philosophy and Metaphysics (Contd…) (2)   Hinduism lacks a single central core or historical unity This narrative is a typical way of Western ethos of describing Indian ancient history and culture. During the British colonial era, the rulers, Western historians and scholars purportedly depicted it a civilization with narrow vision largely […]
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Hindu, Hinduism and Hindustan: Part LXXXV

Misconception and Misunderstandings – I In part XLVIII – Prodding Questions Faced by Hindus Globally – of this series, the author had addressed some common misconceptions and prodding questions that Hindus are often faced with globally from the people of other faiths, and particularly from those pursuing two dominant Abrahamic religions in the world. Then […]
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कोशा – एक समीक्षा

“कोशा” की समीक्षा लिखते हुए, मैं प्रारंभ में ही यह उल्लेख करना चाहूँगा कि सेवानिवृत्ति के बाद से लेखक और मैं वर्षों से घनिष्ठ परिचित और मित्र रहे हैं, तथा एक लंबे समय से एक ही कॉलोनी में पास-पास रह रहे हैं। उस नाते, मैं दृढ़ विश्वास के साथ यह कह सकता हूँ कि यह […]
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भारत और इजराइल: साझा सुरक्षा संवेदनशीलताएं

संयुक्त राष्ट्र के जनादेश के तहत 14 मई 1948 को यहूदियों के लिए एक मातृभूमि के रूप में इजराइल राज्य का गठन किया गया था और भारत ने 17 सितंबर 1950 को इसे कानूनी (de jure) मान्यता दी थी, ऐसा करने वाले शुरुआती एशियाई देशों में से भारत एक था। हालाँकि, उत्तरवर्ती भारतीय सरकारें चार […]
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Beat the Blues: Wellness Strategies After Sixty

​Understanding the landscape of life after 60 years requires looking beyond alarmist headlines and recognizing aging for what it truly is i.e., a natural and continuous process of organic, morphological and physiological evolution. As the human body and mind mature, natural shifts occur across the musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, metabolic systems and state of mind—ranging from altered […]
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The Scaly-Foot Snail

​Deep within the ocean where reigns endless darkThe scaly-foot snail braves thermal currents’ sparkWhere sulphur plumes and caustic vapours riseThese iron-armoured crawlers survive and thrive. No common fragile shell protects its crawling formInstead, a metallic fort is built against the stormBorn out of iron sulphides, forged in deep-sea firesWhere the ocean’s crushing weight in vain […]
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Shape-Shifting Titan

A translucent vagabond of the stagnant pondMapping the shadows of the depths beyondBody has no rigid contour, chassis or shellWith a plasmic universe inside a single cell. A shape-shifting titan of gel and liquid streamAn ever-shifting silhouette, a living-flowing dreamIt extends pseudopodia, pushing outward wideWhere the quiet, drifted water-currents glide. Engulfing unwary prey in a […]
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Beat the Blues: Wellness Strategies After Sixty

​Understanding the landscape of life after 60 years requires looking beyond alarmist headlines and recognizing aging for what it truly is i.e., a natural and continuous process of organic, morphological and physiological evolution. As the human body and mind mature, natural shifts occur across the musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, metabolic systems and state of mind—ranging from altered […]
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The Scaly-Foot Snail

​Deep within the ocean where reigns endless darkThe scaly-foot snail braves thermal currents’ sparkWhere sulphur plumes and caustic vapours riseThese iron-armoured crawlers survive and thrive. No common fragile shell protects its crawling formInstead, a metallic fort is built against the stormBorn out of iron sulphides, forged in deep-sea firesWhere the ocean’s crushing weight in vain […]
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Hindu, Hinduism and Hindustan: Part LXXV

Pilgrimage-I Nearly all communities and religions in the world attach significance to places which have some connection with any worldly or supernatural act(s) or event(s) of the divine (God) or His messenger(s); the birth, enlightenment or death of founder and saints; sites of the spiritual calling or awakening; supposedly a dwelling or living place of […]
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