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The care that is given without being asked for can be the greatest quality human beings can ever possess. Friendship is something that thrives on its own, not bounded by any conditions or requirements. Thus among all the relationships of the world, friendship has a unique quality, that it is a part of every relationship.…

Born in a lower middle class family in Rameshwaram, a coastal Hindu pilgrimage town of Tamilnadu in southern India, APJ Abdul Kalam never failed to dream big. Distributing newspapers after attending school to support his father, who owned a boat and helped commute pilgrims between Rameshwaram and Dhanushkodi, his childhood struggles taught him only to…

Many consider Immanuel Kant as one of the most abstruse thinkers of the modern day philosophers. His thoughts were originally in German language that got translated into English, which could have made it somewhat complex. But many believe that what is more complex are his thoughts as he dealt with some hard-to-explain concepts of human…

Can there be in any of the billions of stars packed in endless number of galaxies in this vast infinite universe a form of existence that can act on its own with a sense so complex and similar to that of our species on Earth? Is there anyone accompanying us within the boundaries of an…

To avoid a pre-arranged marriage In 1940, a 22-year-old African young man fled ‘The Great Palace’ at Mqhekezweni to Johannesburg. The biggest of the South African cities gradually started showing him its awkward face demurred with the system of racial segregation. Apartheid firmly spread roots as an official policy of South Africa in 1948 as…

In history, the first man-made object has flown past the smallest yet the controversial planet of our solar system. They call it an age of exploration coming to an end. But, as an optimistic race we are bound to consider it as the beginning of a new age where we are unshackled to go beyond…

Eighty years before, today Lhamo Thondup was born in a small village of Taktser that was politically a part of Qinghai, the Chinese Province. When he was three years old, he was identified as the reincarnation of the thirteenth Dalai Lama Thubten Gyatso. In 1950, when Tibet was in a political turmoil due to the…

Time is an indefinite concept; an illusion of multiple dimensions. The only purpose of our quest for knowledge is to interpret and understand the beginning of time or the events that precede its dawn. Thus in some way, time is an entity that becomes the hindmost juncture of our understanding of the origin and life…

If you understand yoga as a series of exercises or stretching muscles and body parts, then you are mistaken. Rather it is the union of mind, body and the spirit. No wonder our understanding of yoga attributes only the physical phenomenon leaving behind the mind and spiritual phenomena, as our senses are familiarized in the…

Religion is not as old as the human life span on earth. Yet it has been successful in captivating the belief systems of billions of people and in creating a delusional ideology- that only the set of beliefs followed by oneself is superior over the rest- among most of the believers, if not all. We…