Hertzian Waves, Vedanta and the Feelings of Plants: A Jagadish among the Polymaths
Across the oceans, on the western shore, Reigns the temple of the Goddess Of wealth of science. There you journeyed, my friend, And returned richly crowned. You anointed the motherland, Modest at hear, poor and shy. The great and the glorified Of...
Le Castella
Calabria: Le Castella is a small town located on the Ionian coast of Calabria, 10 km from of Isola di Capo Rizzuto in the province of Crotone, Calabria . Official name is Punta Delle Castella. Calabrian people likes to call it as Casteddi. Town is...
Dharma is all about Sustainable and Responsible Development and Existence
Dharma is that which upholds the order of the cosmos, of the society; that which upholds the multiplicity of realities; that which safeguards the reflexive tendencies of every element in the universe, coming from either self-interactions or...
I am Brown, so what?
It has been six months since I assumed office as the key student-facing sabbatical officer of the University of Cambridge Graduate Union, in my fourth stint as a student leader in the Cambridge University student unions. The role has involved...
A Clarion Call for Change of Culture of Politics in West Bengal
Bengalis came together on 19th June 2019 in front of the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Parliament Square, in front of the British Parliament, even as it rained. They were joined by Indians from across the country. The reason? They were there to...
पजै न राण प्रतापसी
महाराणा प्रताप का जन्म 9 मई, 1540 को हुआ था। अगले कुछ दिनों में हम जनके जीवन से जुड़ी गौरवशाली गाथा को जानने का प्रयास करेंगे। उनका आर्दश था, की बापा रावल का वंशज किसी के आगे सिर नहीं झुकायेगा और इस प्रण को उन्होंने जीवनपर्यन्त निभाया। स्वदेशप्रेम,...
Fat Boy in space
London: One of a kind , a powerful rocket soared in to the space from Satish Dhawan Space center, Sriharikota. On June 5th, 2017 India has successfully launched GSLV MK III D1 with hopes that one day it will be able to carry Astronauts in to the...
Indian Pluralism is Non-Negotiable
Recently, after my speech at the Leicester Vichar Manthan on how a truly Dharmic society promotes the idea of unity in diversity, a Bangladeshi friend was surprised when I said I have had a lot of close Muslim friends since my childhood. The latter...
Didi’s Hysteria and Changing Dynamics in an increasingly Modi-fied Bengal
The last time Mamata Banerjee was so hysteric was probably during the phase when she was fighting a pitched battle to take control of West Bengal from the Communist Party of India (Marxist) a decade or so back. It has been strange to see the first...
For a Dharmic Brexit and Unity in Diversity
(This reflection-piece was written for an event where I was called as a speaker by Vichaar Manthan - UK in Leicester on `The Role of Dharma in the Post-Brexit Indo-British Relationship'. It looks at the spirit of India, and how the idea of 'unity...