This is article #7 – part of deep trip series on Sanskrit. Before you proceed, please read the previous articles in the series. Click here for Article #1… Click here for Article #2… Click here for article #3… Click here for article #4… Click here for article #5… Click here for article #6… This …
Read More »Loss of Cultural Knowledge #2: Library destroyed, Scientist murdered in the name of religion!
Alexandria, the city named after Alexander the Great, once hosted over a million scrolls at the Great Library of Alexandria. The library was created in 3rd century BC by King Ptolemy I, the successor of Alexander. Hypatia, the first female mathematician of the world, was born in the very same …
Read More »Loss of Cultural Knowledge #1: Did an Atomic War destroy Mohenjo-daro?
The Indus Valley Civilization was arguably the most advanced ancient civilization that we know of. However, the sudden end or destruction or abandonment of the Indus Valley Civilization and Mohenjo-daro is a mystery. Built around 2500 BCE, Mohenjo-daro was one of the biggest urban settlements of the Indus Valley Civilization. …
Read More »Sanskrit, why so serious? Mankind’s oldest jokes translated to English
This is article #5 – part of deep trip series on Sanskrit. Before you proceed, please read the previous articles in the series. Click here for Article #1… Click here for Article #2… Click here for article #3… Click here for article #4… After some serious exploration in the last 3 articles, …
Read More »2nd October Special: Experimenting with Truth or Playing with Fire?
‘At the stroke of the midnight hour when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.’ Words are always chosen carefully when it comes to deliver a message to the masses. They can be used to bring up hate, love, violence, riots, peace and many other social conventions …
Read More »3000 years old forgotten Science of Lucid Dreaming & Transcendental Consciousness
This is article #1 – part of deep trip series on Sanskrit. “We are asleep. Our life is a dream. But we wake up, sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein (20th century) Even though Lucid Dreaming as a concept has been accepted & discovered …
Read More »Do you feel free, punk?
Let us talk about the illusion of free will. “Hukabakuchinukamakazire” One of the most important quotes that humanity would ever come across – words by one of the first homo-sapiens to walk on the face of this godforsaken earth! (Fact check – I can’t prove it but you can’t disprove …
Read More »Asking and Receiving- I
Context: there are three main aspects that you can actually utilize in life, which are asking the right questions, reading the signs and listening hard to what experience tells you. If you are attuned to going beyond and actually yearning for the answers; as in if you want the answers …
Read More »HERO
I can’t find peace in the surroundings When there is no room left for my mind To go beyond the limits of material excesses And float free in the cosmos of the divine How can we measure a man’s worth If he can’t be a hero without a cape How …
Read More »Culture Week Recap: 12 things we learnt from an exploration of ourselves
1. A civilization has the power to thrive as well as annihilate itself As we saw in this article, there are strong evidences that suggest the extinction of the Indus Valley civilization in an atomic blast. This is a good enough warning for us to understand that we are as …
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