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Dear Friends, Namaskaram! Desmond John Morris (born 24 January 1928) is an English zoologist, ethnologist, and surrealist painter, widely recognized for his work in human sociobiology. Renowned for his 1967 classic The Naked Ape and the television series Zoo Time, he has profoundly influenced the popular understanding of human behaviour. This issue presents a selection…

Dear Friends, Namaskaram! George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright, critic, and political activist whose influence on Western theatre, culture, and politics spanned from the 1880s well into the mid-20th century. Over his career, he wrote more than sixty plays, including landmark works such as Man and Superman…

Dear Friends, Namaskaram! "Chanakya (c. 300 BCE) was a renowned statesman and philosopher who authored the Arthashastra, a classic treatise on polity. This work is a comprehensive compilation of nearly everything that had been written in India up to his time concerning artha—a concept encompassing property, economics, and material success." "Educated at Taxila (in present-day…

Dear Friends, Namaskaram! Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), was an Irish playwright, critic and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1913) and…

Dear Friends, Namaskaram! Candace Beebe Pert (June 26, 1946 – September 12, 2013) was an American neuroscientist and pharmacologist. Pert published over 250 scientific articles on peptides and their receptors and the role of these neuro-peptides in the immune system. She held a number of patents for modified peptides in the treatment of psoriasis, Alzheimer's disease, chronic…

Dear Friends, Namaskaram! Daniel Quinn (October 11, 1935 – February 17, 2018) was an American author, cultural critic, and publisher of educational texts, best known for his novel Ishmael, which won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991. Quinn's ideas are popularly associated with environmentalism, though he criticized this term for portraying the environment as…

Dear Friends, Namaskaram! 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…

Dear Friends, Namaskaram! 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…