Publications
Recalling Adi Shakaracharya’s Vedantic Legacy On His Birthday: 09 May 2020
“The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind,” said Felix Frankfurter, the jurist-philosopher. This belief and dictum has…
Laughter Is The Best Medicine; Know Why
It has become a practice, rather an obstinate habit honed over the years, with a firm belief in the elevating powers of music, that I start my day with a score of some lilting background…
A Tribute To All That Is Jazz On International Jazz Day
As a young naval officer, with a diadem of Alexander Selkirk’s ‘The Monarch of All I Survey’ (in reference to the poem by William Cowper, 1731-1800) gait and anticipation, I was once…
Reflections Of A Humble Bibliophile On World Book Day
Earth Day Musings Amid COVID Lockdown
“The Earth has music for those who listen,” said Shakespeare. These very words from our Bard of Avon resonated in my mind in the morning, as I sat thinking of this much-talked of and very…
Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre Thoughts In The Times Of Corona
“The unexamined life is not worth living,” uttered Socrates at his trial, for impiety and corrupting the youth, for which he was subsequently sentenced to death and drank the hemlock, as…