My guiding principle for the rest of the year (emphasis added):
“A decade into the 21st century, it has never been clearer that not letting yesterday’s institutions..roles, tasks, assumptions and beliefs fail..is a titanic roadblock standing in the way of a more authentic, enduring prosperity.
The future’s not predicted — it’s created. So create it.”

Umair Haque, Director, Havas Media Lab via HBR
Past quotes are here.

Dear All: I am publishing this guest post by Dr Jyotsna Kamat with the express intention of soliciting your support for a young, hard-working, earnest Sanskrit scholar languishing in a small village in Karnataka.  Please read his story (originally published here) below and get in touch with me if you can help in any way. Regardless of whether you can personally help the young man or not, please do share widely with friends and well-wishers of Sanskrit (emphasis added).
*** Sad Story of Study in Sanskrit by Dr Jyotsna Kamat ***
Recently …

Courtesy Acorn,  here is one very good reason why India must support Tibet (emphasis added):
Tibetan is the only language to preserve the entire range of the Buddha’s teachings, including the texts on logic and theories of knowledge (epistemology), which we inherited from India’s Nalanda University. This is a system of knowledge governed by reason and logic that has the potential to contribute to the peace and happiness of all beings. Therefore, the policy of undermining such a culture, instead of protecting and developing it, will in the long run amount …

Dear Friends, Please join me for a Live Chat on 27th March, Sunday at 930pm IST on  “Arunachal, Tibet and China: Are we Sleepwalking towards a Disaster?”

The chat will be on the CoverItLive platofrm. Please note that it will be a text-only chat. This will help a large number of people to join and participate (Voice chats are usually unable to handle more than 15 participants). Please register via the link below.
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“Arunachal, Tibet and China: Are we Sleepwalking towards a Disaster?”
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By way of background reading, please have a look at some …

Very brief excerpts from some of the blogs/stories I am reading (and thinking about) this weekend…
Japan earthquake: Emperor Akihito’s exceptional speech

Minutes before Emperor Akihito made his first-ever television address to his people, the Japanese public broadcaster NHK instructed its editors to cut into the speech if important news on the unfolding nuclear crisis broke
Japan earthquake: Emperor Akihito’s exceptional speechMinutes before Emperor Akihito made his first-ever television address to his people, the Japanese public broadcaster NHK instructed its editors to cut into the speech if important news on the unfolding nuclear …