Anandi Sharan

Unemployment

meditation preparing for unemployment what I would say to anyone who asks me what I say to myself thoughts on Louise Glueck's short speech on being congratulated for receiving the…

Machines Are Not Bodies

Machines are not bodies. A body knows how it feels, a machine does not. The goal and purpose of life for humans and other living beings is to create and…

Need to Oust Professional Society

In his book The Rise of Professional Society England since 1880, Harold Perkin wrote: "The 20th century has seen the dissolution of the concept of absolute property. It has been…

Happy International Biodiversity Day

The National Green Tribunal had asked all States to finish preparing People's Biodiversity Registers by end of January 2020. This made various States make greater efforts to mobilise volunteers in…

Reciprocal Altruism

   Treating others with trust and happiness, and hoping for their self-realisation seems to be natural behaviour that follows natural laws. 2500 years ago the Buddha had to leave his…

Eradicating Suffering

  In the last few years I have become aware of the impossibility of removing misery externally to myself. But even very recently when a dire issue presented itself to…

Fascist Relations in India

  Brijesh Thakur is the man accused of sexually abusing 34 out of 44 young women in his care as sex slaves, and terrorising 11 others to flee from another…

First Aid for Victims of Heat

            As Earth is in a condition of runaway climate change, - as feedback effects from warming oceans unleash dramatic temperature extremes on Earth, - there are more and more…

Psychotherapy, politics and women

  I have been thinking about and reading a bit about psychotherapy. Psychotherapy for sad people is very important. Psychotherapy is very important for example because sadness and tension and…

Bail Not Jail

  In a recent case at Uttarakhand High Court at the end of April 2018 a person accused under the Indian Penal Code of cheating, of being party to a…

Democracy Means Controlling The Bank

  Every day in the papers we are reading about the impacts of the starvation politics of demonetisation by the BJP on agricultual labourers, cultivators and other agricultural workers. During…

Fascism In India

On Monday the 31st of October 2016 the Madhya Pradesh police assassinated eight alleged associates of the Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) after an alleged escape from prison near…

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