How Can We Matter

Unity in diversity of culture, language, food, dress, caste, religion, beliefs... is our strength as a nation. Our Indianness - socially, culturally, intellectually, and spiritually - was challenged five times:  in 1947, 1965, 1971, 1999 by the Pakistanis and in 1962 by the Chinese. At all times we rose as one to defend our country and proved that we are one nation. Seeing the desperate and reckless measures resorted to by Congress and opposition parties now, I doubt whether we can do it again! Has our Indianness irretrievably lost? Only time will tell whether sense will prevail!

No doubt JNU is India's most prominent liberal arts University. But why is it that there are so many left leaning intellectuals, consisting of both students and professors, in JNU as well as in many of the top social sciences universities in India today? Let me try to answer this crucial question.

Here is a brief and beautiful description of four well-known subjects: Physics, Chemistry, Biology, History.

Just as we wear different clothes for different occassions and places, we also wear, consciously or unconsciously, different face masks!

In today's context of the nation and people getting divided by the small-minded politicians and leaders with vested interests, I thought I shall share some of my personal experiences.

On Feb 26, 2019 evening PM Modi unveiled the world's largest Bhagavad Gita at Delhi's ISKCON temple. The giant book that ISKCON created weighs 800 kg, measures 2.8 m x  2 m , and runs into 670 pages! "Dubbed the Astounding Bhagavad Gita , it is billed as the largest principal sacred text ever to be printed," the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) said.

Is there any purpose or explanation at the core of our existence ? Is there God or any other transcendent force ? This is a rather long post touching on existential questions involving the meaning of life !  Well, if you are still interested read on.