My favourite Zen story is when a question is asked of a Zen monk – ‘‘A house is on fire....

A superstition is any belief or practice that is irrational, arising from ignorance, a misunderstanding of science or causality, a...

Last week I received a frantic email from a teacher in Puducherry. The school principal had decided to remove all...

I’ve just finished reading ‘Ten Million Aliens’ by Simon Barnes, a collection of articles that looks at animals in a...

Plants and animals are so interdependent that many plants change themselves, and even where they grow, in order to accommodate...

A human eats, defecates, reproduces, dies. And in between tries to give meaning to his life by being as destructive...

Altruism is the conscious and deliberate giving of something you may need yourself but are prepared to donate for another’s wellbeing....

Last week I received a frantic email from a teacher in Puducherry. The school principal had decided to remove all...

Every summer I make a thick mango juice, put it into plastic kulfi holders and freeze it. We have it...

One of the reasons I don’t eat sweets is because, over the years, I have discovered that most of them...