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Dear Friends, Namaskaram! Leo Tolstoy   (1828 – 1910), was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. He received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1909; the fact that he never…

Dear Friends, Namaskaram! Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931) was a Lebanese-American writer, poet, and visual artist, also considered a philosopher although he himself rejected the title. He is best known as the author of The Prophet, which was first published in the United States in 1923 and has since become one…

Dear Friends, Namaskaram! Thich Nhat Hanh (October 11, 1926 – January 22, 2022) was a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, peace activist, prolific author, poet, teacher, and founder of the Plum Village Tradition, historically recognized as the main inspiration for engaging Buddhism known as the "father of mindfulness". In the mid-1960s, Thich Nhat Hanh co-founded the School…

Dear Friends, Namaskaram! Lao Tzu was an ancient Chinese philosopher and writer. He is the reputed author of the Tao Te Ching, the founder of philosophical Taoism, and a deity in religious Taoism and traditional Chinese religions. In this issue, we have given some of his quotable quotes. This month, our front page anecdote is…

Dear Friends, Namaskaram! Herman Edward Daly (born July 21, 1938) is an American ecological economist and emeritus professor at the School of Public Policy of University of Maryland, College Park in the United States, best known for his time as a senior economist at the World Bank from 1988 to 1994. In 1996, he was…

Dear Friends, Namaskaram! Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (28 May 1883 – 26 February 1966), was a multifaceted personality, although people know him mainly as a freedom fighter. He was an activist, a social reformer, prolific writer, historian, a poet and a wonderful orator.  Veer Savarkar was a leading figure in the Hindu Mahasabha. Savarkar began his…

Dear Friends, Namaskaram! This year we celebrated 125th birth anniversary of Subhash Chandra Bose on 23rd January 2022 in a big way. The government also announced that in future republic day celebrations will start from January 23 instead of January 24 to include the birth anniversary of Bose. Subhas Chandra Bose is considered the most…

Dear Friends, Namaskaram! Laurie Baker (2 March 1917 – 1 April 2007) was a British-born Indian architect, renowned for his initiatives in cost-effective energy-efficient architecture and designs that maximized space, ventilation and light and maintained an uncluttered yet striking aesthetic sensibility. Influenced by Mahatma Gandhi and his own experiences in the remote Himalayas, he promoted…

Dear Friends, Namaskaram! J.P. Vaswani (2 August 1918 – 12 July 2018), better known as Dada Vaswani, was   the spiritual head of the Sadhu Vaswani Mission founded by his Guru, Sadhu Vaswani. The Mission, a voluntary organization having its headquarter in Pune, has centers around the world. He promoted vegetarianism and animal rights. Dada Vaswani…