Category Archives: Religion

Born a Muslim | Ghazala Wahab | An Excerpt

My most vivid childhood memories pertaining to religion are of Ramzan, the month of fasting which culminates in the biggest festival of Muslims—Eid. For several years (from the time I…

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The Island of Self – Thich Nhat Hanh

When the Buddha was eighty years old and knew he wasn’t going to live much longer, he offered the practice of the ‘island of self ’ to his students. He…

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Suffering And Happiness Are Not Separate – Thich Nhat Hanh

When we suffer, we tend to think that suffering is all there is at that moment, and happiness belongs to some other time or place. People often ask, ‘Why do…

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‘Pilgrim Nation’ by Devdutt Pattanaik

  Introduction Once upon a time there was a boy called Shravan-kumar who travelled with a bamboo sling on his shoulders. On either side of this sling were two baskets….

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Vaishnodevi: Waiting for Ram – An Excerpt from Devdutt Pattanaik’s ‘Pilgrim Nation’

After a long crawl, through a narrow cave, in the hills of Jammu, you finally arrive at Vaishnodevi, embodied as three outcroppings of rock, draped with red cloth with gold…

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Celebrating 550 years of Guru Nanak

  Guru Nanak, the first of the ten Sikh Gurus, was a sixteenth-century reformer and the founder of Sikhism. He challenged ritualism and shows of piety and attacked the citadels…

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