Intermediate

Originally published in The Sunday Guardian

Ask any parent and she will say, without hesitation, that she wants her child to be free: to find her own path, to live her own life, to become herself. Most parents mean this. And yet the same parent will lie awake worrying about… read_more

Originally published in The Pioneer

Serious institutions in the world now seem engaged in fighting misinformation.

Governments are regulating, platforms are fact-checking, academics are mapping how false content spreads, and journalists are building verification desks with a rigour they have not applied to anything in years. The World Economic Forum,… read_more

Originally published in The Pioneer

Every civilisation in crisis reaches first for the solution that requires it to change the least. This is not cowardice; it is the structural behaviour of the human ego, which will accept any modification to its tools before it accepts an examination of its wants.… read_more

Originally published in The Sunday Guardian

For more than three decades now, the evidence on climate change has been accumulating with a consistency that science rarely achieves. Each year’s measurements confirm and extend the last. The warming is real, it is accelerating, and its costs are being paid unevenly, falling… read_more

Originally published in The Sunday Guardian

There is a war that every human being is losing, and it is not the one making headlines. Missiles strike oil fields in the Middle East, and within days the consequences travel: energy prices spike, supply chains fracture, and LPG cylinders quietly vanish into… read_more

Acharya Prashant (AP): That which you call “Vipassana” today, is a very recent phenomenon. They claim that it comes from the Buddha, actually, it is not. The stream flowing from Buddha got extinct around the 8th or 10th century AD. This modern Vipassana came up in Burma, just around a… read_more

Listener: Why is it that people don’t recognise?

Acharya Prashant: There is nobody who does not recognises. Everybody recognises. They just don’t speak about it, it’s a secret. It’s a well kept secret. If you speak about it you will be ostracized.

L1: Because you are then a threat… read_more

Questioner: Acharya Ji, Pranaam! I read the six chapters from the book allotted to me yesterday. And now I don’t want to stop and there is a feeling of stillness. But when I look back to conclude what I have read, I cannot recollect much. There is a feeling that… read_more

Mojud – The man with the inexplicable life

There was once a man named Mojud. He lived in a town where he had obtained a post as a small official, and it seemed likely that he would end his days as inspector of weights and measures.

One day when he… read_more