The other side of the story!

The Earth is warming and hearts are cooling. A harsh reality of our times. A hurricane here, a melting glacier there. A depressed child here, a school shooting there. Mother Earth is convulsing with her own pain and its Children are writhing in their own angst and frustration. Both flow together, tied at the hips, in the giant unyeilding river of time. This river has been flowing forever, in a sinusoidal wave of prosperity and deprivation, with crests of abundance and troughs of lack. By many accounts, the current trajectory seems to be downwards, from Climate perspective at least,. With our futures intertwined, if Earth suffers so do we. But it doesn’t have to be that way, was the unequivocal message of the Hanuman Festival, I had the good fortune to attend on July 15, 16, 17th 2022. We the people and and our benign benefactor can both do better.  The attendees, a few hundred strong, seemed    to have found a path, that they were steadfastly moving on. There wasn’t any R...

  Purpose It’s not your purpose to save your country or your faith    from the aggressor that is determined to destroy it. Countries and civilizations have come together and disappeared over history over and over again. History is nothing if it is not a graveyard of civilisations, faiths or cultures, great and small. It’s not your purpose to save the starving child across the oceans. Millions of kids and adults will die of disease and lack, nevertheless. It’s not your purpose to build the    business or product to change the world. Companies and business have come and gone and the world pulsates and writhes in pain and lonliness evermore. It’s not your purpose It’s not your purpose to save the environment or the earth from getting destroyed by global warming. If you zoom out, worlds have come together and got destroyed limitlessly in the billions of years of the known Universe, that our counciousness understands. In other words, the Universe is apathetic and amb...