March 2025
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Frances Moore Lappé (born February 10, 1944) is an American researcher. She is the author of 20 books including the 2.5-million-copy selling 1971 book Diet for a Small Planet, which the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History describes as "one of the most influential political tracts of the times." She was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "revealing the political and economic causes of world hunger and how citizens can help to remedy them." In this issue, we have given some of her quotable quotes.
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February 2025
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Adi Shankara, also known as Adi Shankaracharya, was a great Vedic scholar and teacher (acharya) who lived in the eighth century CE. In his writings, he synthesised the Advaita Vedanta teachings of his time and offered a harmonising reading of the Shastras with liberating knowledge of the self at its core. In this issue, we have given some of his quotable quotes..
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January 2025
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Masanobu Fukuoka (2 February 1913 – 16 August 2008) was a Japanese farmer and philosopher celebrated for his natural farming and re-vegetation of desertified lands. He was a proponent of no-till, herbicide and pesticide-free cultivation methods from which he created a particular method of agriculture, commonly referred to as "natural farming" or "do-nothing farming".
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December 2024
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Barbara Ellen Kingsolver (April 8, 1955) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, essayist, and poet. In 2023, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the novel Demon Copperhead. Her work often focuses on topics such as social justice, biodiversity, and the interaction between humans and their communities and environments. In this issue, we have given some of her quotable quotes.
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November 2024
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Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" an argument in favour of citizen disobedience against an unjust state. Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry amount to more than 20 volumes. In this issue, we have given some of his quotable quotes.
This month, in our front page, a professor of a college teaches us with a novel play of balloons that “if we care about other people’s happiness, we’ll find ourselves too”.
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October 2024
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Wolfgang Sachs, (born 25 November 1946) is a researcher, writer and university teacher in the field of environment, development, and globalization. In 1992 he edited and co-authored the volume The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge in Development Studies, which has been translated into a dozen languages.
Since 1993 Sachs has worked at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, since 2009 as head of the Berlin Office. He served as a lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change from 1999 to 2001. Sachs is also a member of the Club of Rome, a lecturer at Schumacher College and an honorary professor at the University of Kassel, Germany. In this issue, we have given some of his quotable quotes.
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September 2024
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Herman Edward Daly (July 21, 1938 – October 28, 2022) was an American ecological and economist and professor at the School of Public Policy of University of Maryland. In 1996, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "defining a path of ecological economics that integrates the key elements of ethics, quality of life, environment and community." In this issue, we have given some of his quotable quotes.
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August 2024
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Daniel Goleman (born March 7, 1946) is an American psychologist, author, and science journalist. For many years, he wrote for The New York Times, reporting on the brain and behavioral sciences. His 1995 book, Emotional Intelligence was on The New York Times Best Seller list for a year and a half, a bestseller in many countries, and is in print worldwide in 40 languages. In this issue, we have given some of his quotable quotes.
This month, in our front page Osho very nicely and in simple words tells us that “Totality is The Foundation of Freedom”.
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