WB Yeats introducing Tagore’s ‘Gitanjali’

Homi Bhabha with Paul Dirac. Source: TIFR Archives

Imagine telling a Vietnam vet flying on the last chopper out of Saigon that one day the Communist General Secretary of Vietnam would be trying to persuade an American President to embrace free markets

SoBo journalist constantly and shamelessly lies through the teeth on sensitive issues. Scum, not called out enough

Shubh Ram Navami!

Indian helmets from the 1700s. Sindhi, Maratha, Sikh and Rajput (in that order).

Khand (खांड) became Candy Sharkara (शर्करा) became Sugar

Starry Night Over the Rhône by Vincent Van Gogh (1888) and a view of the same location today

If you look at the video closely you will be able to spot Arundhati Roy pulling her hair out and screeching in the distance

Ludwig Hans Fischer - "India, Taj Mahal at Dusk"

Found a copy of Gita Press’ Bhagavadgita that’s older than me

“Life is right, in any case.” – Rilke

The father plants trees he will never climb and the son climbs trees he did not plant, and somewhere in this sacred exchange lies the mystery of time itself - how a man becomes eternal not by living forever but by teaching another man to die well, and when the son finally

The audacity to say something like this. How many humans have this confidence? And he had the bite force to match the bark decibels. This quote is emblematic of the 19th century Germanic mind. A fascinating study. The Republic of letters. Each German Man of Letters trying to one

Reminds one of