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A summer vacation in 1955

Vishy KurugantiMarch 31, 20189 mins

[Editor’s Note: My mother, a late adopter of the Internet, used to write the loveliest of letters to her children pre-Internet era. The letters stopped after I returned to India. In the past few years…

Swami Vivekananda on Spiritual Conquest (Part 2)

Vishy KurugantiJanuary 12, 20135 mins

[Editor’s Prelude] This is Part 2 of a two-part blog series on Swami Vivekananda’s ideas on spiritual conquest – from a talk titled The Work Before Us delivered at the Triplicane Literary Society…

Swami Vivekananda on Spiritual Conquest

Vishy KurugantiJanuary 12, 20138 mins

*[Editor’s Prelude] Was Swami Vivekananda the first ambassador of Hinduism to the West? The more one reads of his writings and lectures, one begin to realize that he was possibly Hinduism’s first (and…

Nahin chalta hai

Vishy KurugantiNovember 27, 20085 mins

Tajnagar Railway Station (Pic: courtesy whataworldagain.wordpress.com) I have watched a city of a million dreams held hostage by 20 or so men who have purged from their souls every trace of humanity…

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