Monthly Archives: July 2020

‘Idgah’ by Munshi Premchand

Premchand (Dhanpat Rai Srivastav, 1880-1936) was one of India’s greatest writers. He wrote in Hindi and published over a dozen novels and nearly 300 short stories.

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DHONI TAKES INDIA TO THE SUMMIT – An Excerpt from Mihir Bose’s ‘The Nine Waves’

Three days before India played England at Lord’s in the first of the four Test series in July 2011 a dinner was held in honour of Mahendra Singh Dhoni at…

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The Island of Self – Thich Nhat Hanh

When the Buddha was eighty years old and knew he wasn’t going to live much longer, he offered the practice of the ‘island of self ’ to his students. He…

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Suffering And Happiness Are Not Separate – Thich Nhat Hanh

When we suffer, we tend to think that suffering is all there is at that moment, and happiness belongs to some other time or place. People often ask, ‘Why do…

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