Sadhguru’s Huffington Post piece from last week, If the Feminine Ruled This Planet, Life Would Be About Living, really struck a chord with me. Firstly, a caveat:
When I say feminine, I am not talking about it in terms of male-female; I am talking about it in terms of masculine-feminine.
Yes, but women certainly are implicated. The [...]
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Sadhguru praises “the feminine,” wins over world’s women
June 7th, 2010 · View Comments
Tags: culture · economic development · empowerment · feminism · gender roles and division of labour · human development
Money can’t buy me love
May 26th, 2010 · View Comments
From Kathy, “The Pursuit of Money is a Dead End“:
Here’s a little story from my husband which he loves to tell but can’t take credit for because I’m sure he got the story from somewhere else. It goes like this:
A man who was about to enter the pearly white gates of heaven was greeted by [...]
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Social media, spirituality & transformation
April 30th, 2010 · View Comments
I feel so refreshed after attending NASSCOM Foundation’s workshop with Gaurav Mishra (aka Gauravonomics). It was informative and inspiring. Not to mention I was totally impressed by Gaurav’s humility and approachability, his genuine eagerness to share his business and marketing knowledge for activism and social change.
I have been doing tons of research on how non-profits [...]
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Hilarious Delhi-rium
April 30th, 2010 · View Comments
Caught up in the race
of cars, thoughts and rats.
Continuous comparison,
city life of crowds and competition
no space to hear yourself think
others breathing down your neck
the heat grit smoke dust
choking all life around.
The seat of government and diplomacy,
madness and no mercy.
To thrive: a miraculous task;
most just barely survive.
The dream and drive of making it big,
the unbeatable will [...]
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Education=empowerment + alcoholism?
April 17th, 2010 · View Comments
For my dissertation at LSE, I wrote about a UNICEF project for girl’s education and questioned its assumption that education was automatically empowering. A contact of mine currently at the LSE, Layla, has posted some very interesting research–conducted by the LSE, no less–that again brings these questions to my mind: Cleverest women are the heaviest [...]
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