Often, we look for peace in external things—whether it's through possessions, relationships, or achievements. The truth is, ...
Ever since I read Orhan Pamuk’s The Red Haired Woman, I have been searching for a book that did what these lines describe: “the greatest happiness in life was to marry the girl you’d spent your youth ...
How a book of poems written by Buddhist nuns over a 300-year period helps in understanding suffering
A spiritual quest to understand ageing, sickness and death – suffering – marked the beginning of a philosophical tradition that continues to influence people more than 2,500 years later. Siddhartha, ...
In this episode, we are joined by Jairam Ramesh to discuss his new book, The Light of Asia: The Poem That Defined the Buddha. Ramesh, author, Member of Parliament, former Union Minister, and Congress ...
The voluminous biography of Sir Edwin Arnold’s 5,300-line epic poem, “The Light of Asia” (1879), by the former Union minister, Jairam Ramesh, is significant in the present-day context for multiple ...
I remember, in my undergrad years as a student of English Literature, our BA Honours curriculum — which, by the way, had not been updated for decades and counted T.S. Eliot as the most modern of ...
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