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What the world’s finest universities do not teach Image link
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Who Will Account for the Real Cost of Cleanliness in Developed Countries? Image link
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Gita as Casteist and Misogynist? Strawmanning at Its Worst Image link
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July 2026
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NBT Navbharat Times

Dear youth, how about a real revolution? 26 Jul 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Who Will Account for the Real Cost of Cleanliness in Developed Countries? 05 Jul 2026 [1] [2] [3]
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Deccan Herald

Why the Past Keeps Following Us 31 Jul 2026 [1] [2]
The burden of borrowed expectations 22 May 2026 [1] [2] [3]
The age of emotional fragility 14 Apr 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
The fragile promise of happiness 24 Feb 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Loneliness is not the Enemy 09 Jan 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Why confidence is just fear in disguise 11 Sep 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Why do We Keep Hurting Ourselves? 11 Aug 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
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The Pioneer

Dear Youth, How About a Real Revolution? 25 Jul 2026 [1] [2] [3]
Scrutiny, not applause: When a Philosophy meets its skeptics 18 Jul 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
What the world’s finest universities do not teach 11 Jul 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
The Spotless Kingdom: What the ‘Clean’ Countries Conceal 04 Jul 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Gita as Casteist and Misogynist? Strawmanning at Its Worst 27 Jun 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Switzerland’s ten million: What a ceiling cannot survive 20 Jun 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
The Colonial Question: Ego as The First Coloniser 13 Jun 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
What Cambridge kept asking: The crisis has a centre 06 Jun 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Climate crisis: When comfort masquerades as immunity 30 May 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
An Energy Crisis in Disguise 23 May 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Sanatan: Tradition Loudly Possessed, Quietly Unread 16 May 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Super Monday: Boredom as ballot, spectacle as sovereignty 09 May 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
The Bill The Planet Has Been Paying For You 02 May 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Counted, Not Weighed: What Delimitation Asks 25 Apr 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
The Wound That Equality Cannot Heal 18 Apr 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
What the IPL Spectacle Really Feeds 11 Apr 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Misinformation has a patron: The ego that calls itself post-truth 04 Apr 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Charged, but Unchanged: The EV Delusion 28 Mar 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Ballots in a Burning World: What Elections Cannot Vote Away 21 Mar 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
The Climate Cost of the War Machine 14 Mar 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Why do nations go to war ? 07 Mar 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
New Regimes, Ancient Hunger: Women as First Casualty 28 Feb 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
The Enemy Falls Outside. The Enemy Rises Inside. 24 Feb 2026 [1] [2]
A Defective Species: Outrage Won’t Help, Acknowledgement Would 14 Feb 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Why Scandals Shock Us, And Shouldn’t 07 Feb 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Rotating Revolutions: Iran on Maya’s Wheel 31 Jan 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Without Self-Enquiry, Rationalism Is Just Another Superstition 24 Jan 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Does God Exist? The Ego’s Favourite Shield 17 Jan 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Venezuela and Bangladesh: Two Theatres, Same Actor 10 Jan 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
New Year, or the Old Deceiving in a New Costume? 03 Jan 2026 [1] [2]
When Culture Masquerades as Wisdom 27 Dec 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Shruti Philosophy: The Hinduism That Stands Forgotten 20 Dec 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
The Collective Ego: GDP Over Wisdom 13 Dec 2025 [1] [2]
Left & Right: Ideological Opposites, Psychological Twins 06 Dec 2025 [1] [2]
Yes, the planet is overpopulated! 29 Nov 2025 [1] [2] [3]
An Advaitic Critique of Marxism 22 Nov 2025 [1] [2]
Before the Ice Melts, the Ego Must: The Real Crisis Behind COP30 15 Nov 2025 [1] [2]
From Dharma to Dogma: The Genesis of Caste 08 Nov 2025 [1] [2]
Forgotten Pandemic: The Lessons We Refused to Learn 01 Nov 2025 [1] [2]
Bihar Elections 2025: The Vote That Must Awaken the Voter 25 Oct 2025 [1] [2]
Libertarianism, Liberalism, and Conservatism: Ego as Ideology 20 Oct 2025 [1] [2]
Ladakh: A mirror cracking under climate change 11 Oct 2025 [1] [2]
Seeking validation abroad: Borrowed respect, fragile nationalism 04 Oct 2025 [1] [2]
The Forgotten Navratri: Devi as Nature, Demon as Destruction 30 Sep 2025 [1] [2]
The fetish of growth and the mirage of development 22 Sep 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Before outer revolutions, we first need an inner one. 13 Sep 2025 [1] [2]
North India's Floods: Not Seasonal Wrath, but Climate Collapse 06 Sep 2025 [1] [2]
Homes as Graves: Why Outrage Never Ends Violence 30 Aug 2025 [1] [2]
Greenwashing: Pretending to Care While Burning the Planet 06 Aug 2025 [1] [2]
India Pays as the West Neglects: The Price of Global Warming 25 Jul 2025 [1] [2]
Rethinking What It Means to Be Truly Clean 21 Jul 2025 [1] [2]
Climate Crisis: A Mirror to Our Inner State 15 Jul 2025 [1] [2]
The Climate Crisis Within: Rethinking Global Warming 11 Jul 2025 [1] [2]
Complex challenges necessitate consciousness and policy shift 20 May 2024 [1] [2]
They way to assured success 08 Apr 2023 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Self-help versus spirituality 25 Mar 2023 [1] [2] [3]
Do not consume that which poisons you 01 Jan 2023 [1] [2] [3]
The Science Behind Spirituality 31 Jul 2022 [1] [2]
Mind IT 15 May 2019 [1] [2]
June 2026
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The Sunday Guardian

The body bends, the year turns: What Yoga Day forgets to ask 21 Jun 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
At Britain’s Parliament, an ancient Indian question challenged the limits of law and power 14 Jun 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
World Environment Day: The hunger no forest can fill 07 Jun 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
The Slaughter You Choose Not To See 31 May 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
The Terms She Never Chose to Live by 24 May 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
NEET crisis: The wound beneath the wound 17 May 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Mother's Day Special: ‘The Marriage we Settled for’ 10 May 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
The Enemy We Cannot Afford To Lose 26 Apr 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Reserved seats, unchanged cages 19 Apr 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
The Child as the Ego’s Credential 12 Apr 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
The Right to Depart: On Death as a Decision, Not a Default 05 Apr 2026 [1] [2] [3]
The Climate Without, The Hunger Within 29 Mar 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
The Real War Nobody Wants To Fight 22 Mar 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
The Government Job Obsession: A Paranoia, A Mirage 15 Mar 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
The Woman Neither Tradition Nor Rebellion Prepared For 08 Mar 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Education: Expanding outer knowledge, awakening inner clarity 01 Mar 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
The Borrowed Dog and the Unborrowed Question 22 Feb 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Why Every Caste Debate Misses the Real Question 15 Feb 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Geopolitics: The Ego’s Grand Theatre 08 Feb 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
From Telescope to Horoscope: When Belief Replaced Inquiry 01 Feb 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
From Caveman to Greenland: The hunger that never left 25 Jan 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
AI Is Not the Problem: We Were Already a Machine 18 Jan 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
The law that cannot liberate: The limits of punishment 11 Jan 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Unconscious Democracy: Why Order Eludes India While China Surges 04 Jan 2026 [1] [2] [3] [4]
The Aravalli Situation: When the Hills Become Negotiable 28 Dec 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Meditation Beyond Methods: The Meditator Is the Obstruction 21 Dec 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Inner Poverty: Consumption as Hollow Consolation 14 Dec 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
The Infantilisation of Adults: Why Maturity Is Vanishing Worldwide 07 Dec 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
One Greed Six Earths: The Inner Emptiness Behind Global Consumption 30 Nov 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Beyond passion and pressure: Career as clarity 23 Nov 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Weekdays of Bondage, Weekends of Escape 16 Nov 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Delicate to Dauntless: The Myth of Female Fragility 09 Nov 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Technology: A Magnificent Servant, a Dangerous Master 02 Nov 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Diwali: The Light that Must be Lit Within 19 Oct 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Ladakh: A Climate Warning from the Roof of the World 12 Oct 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
When ritual masquerades as religion’s true inner essence 05 Oct 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Navratri and Saptashati show liberation through embracing life 28 Sep 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
The False Promise of Endless Economic Growth 21 Sep 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Cost of looking away: How denial fuels the climate crisis 14 Sep 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Teachers’ Day reminds us what it really means to teach 07 Sep 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Greenwashing the Climate: Our Favourite Self-Deception 31 Aug 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Desire and Duty: A False Divide 24 Aug 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Real Independence Demands Gita’s Clarity 17 Aug 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
When Merit is Dethroned, a Nation Withers 10 Aug 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Holy Lies: Man's Religion, Woman's Bondage 03 Aug 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
The Gita’s Revolt Against Ritualism 27 Jul 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
When Protection Becomes Possession: True Rebellion Begins Where Roles End 20 Jul 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Does Mankind Deserve Religion? 13 Jul 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Does the Gita Justify Caste? Unravelling the Misinterpretation 06 Jul 2025 [1] [2]
From Belief to Bloodshed: When Identity Masquerades as Religion 29 Jun 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Before it’s too late: Living in an age of trivialized tragedy 22 Jun 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Violent Relationships: A New Trend, or an Enduring Structure? 15 Jun 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Sant Kabir: flame that scorched falsehood 08 Jun 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
World Environment Day: The climate crisis and the need for inner awakening 01 Jun 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Operation 2030: Confronting the climate crisis within 25 May 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
War and woman: A mirror to mankind’s inner jungle 18 May 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Defeating the monster without becoming a monster. 11 May 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Responding to terror with wisdom: The Bhagavad Gita’s timeless message. 04 May 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
TCS Outrage: The Astonishment Is The Confession 03 May 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Freedom within: Reclaiming expression through inner clarity. 27 Apr 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
The climate crisis begins within: Lessons from Kancha Gachibowli. 20 Apr 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Cleanliness in 21st century Can Have Only Measure: Carbon. 13 Apr 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Self, Society, and the State: Vedanta’s Voice in Indian Democracy. 06 Apr 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Climate Change and Feedback Loops: Have We Reached the Point of No Return? 30 Mar 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Linguistic Harmony and Identity: Rethinking India's Language Dynamics. 23 Mar 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
The journey to purpose: Navigating career and calling. 16 Mar 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Redefining Representation: The case for a fairer delimitation in India. 09 Mar 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Women’s Day: A Call for True Liberation. 02 Mar 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Rejecting illusions: The true meaning of Shiv and Mahashivratri. 23 Feb 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Redefining Work: The Debate on Working Hours. 16 Feb 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
How India Pays the Price for America's Climate Negligence. 09 Feb 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Gandhi: An Earthly Journey, Not a Divine Destination. 02 Feb 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Republic Day Special: India Understood is India Loved. 26 Jan 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Contemporising Kumbh: Ancient wisdom, modern relevance. 19 Jan 2025 [1] [2] [3]
Kumbh in the light of Vedanta: Truth beyond tradition. 19 Jan 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Breaking through the cycle of exploitation in relationships. 19 Jan 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Swami Vivekananda: Struggle, Resilience, and Legacy. 12 Jan 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Loneliness: The 21st Century Pandemic 05 Jan 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]
2025: External challenges, Internal Solutions. 29 Dec 2024 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Meditation: A simple honesty beyond methods and routines 22 Dec 2024 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Welcoming Life, Without Conditions ( Covered by: The Sunday Guardian ). 15 Dec 2024 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Life without fear, and relationships without lies. 08 Dec 2024 [1] [2] [3]
Beyond the Separate Self: Transcending the Illusion of Separation. 01 Dec 2024 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Reclaiming Authenticity in a World of Impressions – Acharya Prashant in The Sunday Guardian. 24 Nov 2024 [1] [2] [3] [4]
March 2026
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Dainik Bhaskar

The Essence of Holi: Colors on the outside, dissolution within. 02 Mar 2026 [1] [2] [3]
November 2025
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Free Press Journal

You Have Lifted The Cup, And Part Of The Spell 04 Nov 2025 [1] [2] [3]
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News 24

You have lifted the cup, and with it, an old veil. 03 Nov 2025 [1] [2] [3]
October 2025
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NDTV

True Freedom of Expression Is Inner Liberation 17 Oct 2025 [1] [2] [3]
Respect Without Roots, Pride Without Substance 03 Oct 2025 [1] [2] [3]
The Mirage of Revolutions: Why Uprisings Fail Without Inner Freedom 20 Sep 2025 [1] [2] [3]
North India Underwater: Not Nature's Fury, But Human Folly 10 Sep 2025 [1] [2] [3]
The Crisis Within: When Clarity is Replaced by Content 28 Jun 2025 [1] [2] [3]
Opinion: Beyond The Mat - Yoga, The Return To The Centre 20 Jun 2025 [1] [2] [3]
Beyond the Mat: Yoga, the return to the center 20 Jun 2025 [1] [2] [3]
Opinion | War and Woman: A Reflection of Mankind 06 Jun 2025 [1] [2] [3]
Operation 2030: Confronting The Climate Crisis Through Inner Clarity 05 Jun 2025 [1] [2] [3]
Defeating enemies: The right war, the final victory 14 May 2025 [1] [2] [3]
Democracy at a Crossroads: Rethinking Delimitation in India. 10 May 2025 [1] [2] [3]
Opinion | Climate Crisis and The Threat of Irreversible Change - NDTV 09 May 2025 [1] [2] [3]
Rethinking Linguistic Harmony and Identity through Indias Language Dynamics 09 May 2025 [1] [2] [3]
August 2025
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Lokmat

Lokmat News – Independence Day: What is true freedom? 14 Aug 2025 [1] [2] [3]
Raksha Bandhan Special: Who Needs Protection Today? 08 Aug 2025 [1] [2] [3]
Guru Purnima: What is the True Importance of a Guru? 10 Jul 2025 [1] [2] [3]
April 2024
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The New Indian Express

Redefining Feminism 26 Apr 2024 [1] [2]
Turn coronavirus lockdown days into a blessing 18 May 2020 [1] [2] [3]
Ramifications of retribution 15 Mar 2020 [1] [2] [3]
The Indispensable Spiritual Intimacy 22 Feb 2020 [1] [2] [3]
Not ripe enough? Keep hanging there 18 Jan 2020 [1] [2] [3]
Spirituality is not an isolated activity 26 Dec 2019 [1] [2] [3]
February 2024
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Patrika

दूसरों के खिलाफ जाना आसान, अपने खिलाफ जाना मुश्किल 20 Feb 2024 [1] [2]
They way to assured success 08 Apr 2023 [1] [2] [3]
January 2024
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Lokdesh

आंसू अगर सच्चे हैं तो भीतर आनंद ही आनंद है 06 Jan 2024 [1] [2]
क्यों की जाती है शिवलिंग की पूजा 18 Feb 2023 [1] [2]
जो गलत है, वो छूटता क्यों नहीं? 22 Dec 2022 [1] [2]
ग्लोबल वॉर्मिंग: हम बढ़ रहे हैं विनाश की ओर 31 Oct 2022 [1] [2]
लिखनी है नई कहानी? 29 Oct 2022 [1] [2]
अध्यात्म संसार में आने का नाम नहीं है; बल्कि एक अंतिम विदाई का नाम है 08 Sep 2022 [1] [2]
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Dainik Jagran

कौन हैं तुलसी के राम? 23 Jan 2024 [1] [2]
जीवन में दुख आएगा भी जाएगा भी 26 Dec 2023 [1] [2]
क्या हम यज्ञ जानते हैं? 26 Aug 2023 [1] [2]
समस्याओं का निवारण 24 Aug 2023 [1] [2]
अध्यात्म बिलकुल अलग ही आयाम की बात करता है 29 Jul 2023 [1] [2]
क्या शक्ति ही शिव का द्वार है? 24 Mar 2023 [1] [2]
October 2023
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Rashtriya Sahara

शिव-शक्ति 19 Oct 2023 [1] [2]
मन सही लक्ष्य से भटक क्यों जाता है? 21 Sep 2023 [1] [2]
किसकी रक्षा हो 31 Aug 2023 [1] [2]
वर्तमान 06 Apr 2023 [1] [2]
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Amar Ujala

असल संघर्ष मन के विकारों को हटाना है 07 Oct 2023 [1] [2]
दूसरों की सोच को खुद पर न हावी होने दें 15 Mar 2023 [1] [2]
January 2023
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Rashtriya Hindi Mail

जो कठिनतम है उसे साध लो, बाकि अपने आप सध जाएगा 22 Jan 2023 [1] [2]
November 2022
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Swatantra Chetna

इंटरनेट के युग में बाज़ार से गायब होती किताबें 06 Nov 2022 [1] [2]
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Others

आप खिलिए, आपका बच्चा स्वत: खिल उठेगा 24 Nov 2022 [1] [2]
June 2020
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Zee News

You were living a very wrong life, now life is telling you. 09 Jun 2020 [1] [2] [3]