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 [...]
Hilarious Delhi-rium
April 30th, 2010 · View Comments
Tags: GOI · activism · culture · economic development · environment · health & well-being · human development · leadership · legal issues · me · politics
Mangoes & madness
April 6th, 2010 · View Comments
An update on my recent post, courtesy of my mom who provides me a steady stream of articles on India in the New York Times. Somehow I decided to read this one, on the U.S. Treasury secretary’s visit to India:
Mr. Geithner has his work cut out for him, economists and policy analysts in both India [...]
Tags: GOI · Isha US · culture · economic development · globalisation · leadership · politics · trade
India, the spiritual superpower
April 3rd, 2010 · View Comments
We’ve all heard the predictions that India’s meant to become one of the next global greats. But what about it’s spiritual power?
India as a culture has invested more time, energy and human resource toward the spiritual development of human beings for a very long time. This can only happen when there is a stable society for [...]
Tags: culture · economic development · empowerment · globalisation · human development · leadership · politics · spirituality
In honor of Sadhguru’s US visit
March 28th, 2010 · View Comments
“Individual transformation is the way to global transformation.”–Sadhguru
For those of you who may not recognize this icon, it was popularized by Obama during his campaign for ‘change’ in America. Sadhguru has said, though, that change is temporary whereas transformation is permanent.
“If I show you a seed and say, this will become a great tree, if you [...]
Tags: Isha US · economic development · empowerment · environment · health & well-being · human development · leadership · politics · spirituality
India’s female politicians
September 9th, 2008 · View Comments
The TOI has an interesting response to Sarah Palin’s nomination: the examination of political tokenism of women in India.
“A patriarchal ethos dominates both the societies, American and Indian, but they operate in different ways. In India, despite the patriarchal ethos, powerful women leaders have emerged,” says political scientist Imtiaz Ahmed.
The most famous examples are BSP [...]
Tags: GOI · Renuka Chowdhury · culture · empowerment · gender bias · gender roles and division of labour · leadership · politics



