For Paulo Coelho fans…

In the Parliamant of Religions, Chicago 1893, Vivekananda had made a spellbinding speech. Here’s an excerpt…

One of the biggest mistakes we make about global terrorism is to associate it particularly with one religion – Islam – this is nothing but outright racisim. Those who want to argue vehemently that its justified may read The faith militant and those who feel hurt or angry about this mistake may read The way…

History was one of my most boring subjects in school. It was mainly because I had to memorise so many dates and events and names and so on, I never understood what the point was when it had all got over long ago. Of course some of the stories were interesting, but overall it was…

Due to my job, I occasionally end up living in different countries for short periods (maybe a few months or so). During these times, I’ve been put up in a hotel or apartment room and lived off a suitcase. That was it – my entire lifetime of belongings which occupies an entire house back in…

Simply no other way to describe the smile I saw on his face. It was the last day, the silence was broken, some students had animated conversations, while others still stayed more or less silent. And this particular gentleman was among the more silent ones, quietly having his lunch. I was sitting opposite to him,…