Number of words: 1,784 It has been reported that the prime minister’s patience with the IAS is wearing thin. One of the reasons conjectured is that the efforts of the government do not seem to percolate down towards its intended recipients and hence it is vigorously pursuing the idea of taking more and more senior officers … Read more
Number of words: 617 Most people turn to personal narratives or philosophical justifications to explain why they hold a particular political opinion. A recently published psychology study suggests they should also look to the size and shape of their brains. Psychologists conducted brain scans on a total of 93 adults (first they studied 48 Caucasian … Read more
Number of words: 158 The custom of exposing the dead is widespread. Certain Kshatriya clans practiced it in ancient times; the Parsis mantain it to this day. It has been recorded from Melanesia and Madagascar. It exists only in a comparitively small area of north-east India. Dr. Hutton has drawn a distinction between the Western … Read more
Number of words: 187 ‘Only two ancient customs have had to be put down by Government: the sacrifice of mithuns by cruel methods, and head-hunting. The suppression of the first is wholly good, and more humane methods of killing can be substituted without detriment to the rites. ‘The suppression of head-hunting, though necessary in any … Read more
Number of words: 333 Dr Wulsin describes experiments on how clothes hamper the body in keeping itself cool. They act as insulators, checking heat loss by radiation. More important, they create near the skin a layer of heat, soaked through the clothing, and then its cooling effect is largely wasted. Europeans in the tropics who … Read more
Number of words: 208 There has recently been an interesting discussion of this subject in Time magazine. Professor Huntington of Yale has argued that the highest forms of civilization must develop in temperate climates. If a country is too cold, its people have to struggle too hard just to stay alive. If it is too … Read more
Number of words: 173 Bernard Shaw illustrated this point by a description of the Victorian woman. She was a masterpiece of sex appeal. She was sex appeal from the top her head to the soles of her feet. She was clothed, of course, from head to feet; all clothes! Everything about her, except her cheeks … Read more
Number of words: 105 Then he speaks of a Hindu religious song of morning, and the holy formula “Sat-Chi-Ananda”: “sat” meaning “truth”, “Chi” “that which lives” and “true knowledge” (i.e. not a knowledge void of true perception), and “Ananda” “ineffable joy”. In this conception truth is inseperable from joy. “Yet one must suffer in the … Read more
Number of words: 94 Then we have another saying in Hindu philosophy: “God alone is, and nothing else is.” You will find the same truth emphasized and illustrated in the Kalma of Islam. The Sanskrit word for truth means literally “that which exist”, “sat”. For this and several other reasons I have come to the … Read more
Number of words: 344 He marks the next stage of India’s progress. Much more touched than Gandhi by social preoccupations and much better informed of the overall worldwide social movement, he has formed an advanced Socialist party in Congress of which he is the recognized leader, although his imprisonments have made it impossible for him … Read more
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