Ducking below the waves
Two young friends, both good swimmers, once went swimming off the coast of Madras. The day was...
Two young friends, both good swimmers, once went swimming off the coast of Madras. The day was...
When an inanimate object, such as a piece of wood, is broken into two, it remains broken. Never...
Crops spring from the soil of the land and not from ingots of gold and bars of silver. This truism...
There is an English proverb to this effect: “It is in giving that we receive.” The Creator of...
“Nature works,” says Emerson, “on a method of all for each and each for all.” This sums up...
It was the 4 November 1847, a servant entered the room of his master, a Scottish doctor, to find...
Man is an intellectual being. He is endowed with a mind, which is his greatest faculty. It is only...
Some people argue that social problems can be solved only through ‘social activism’...
There was once a man who stubbornly refused to believe that it is God who provides for and...
If from a vessel containing water a single drop is found to be brackish, it means that all of the...
Making God one’s object of worship raises man’s position. On the contrary, regarding something...
The March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake was the most powerful known earthquake ever to have hit Japan...
It has been said that when words come from the heart, they go straight to the heart. And that when...
One of Einstein’s biographers writes: “We can take heart that it is not necessary to be a good...
Joseph Conrad, born in 1857 in the Polish town of Berdiczew, was orphaned in infancy, and since he...
Ghanshyam Das Birla (1894-1983) was the greatest industrial magnate of modern India. He led an...
There is a saying that if you change yourself, your luck will change automatically. This is no...
Man has two facets to his personality—body, and soul—both of which need sustenance for their...
A cow gives milk. This is a universally accepted fact. But there are few who pause to think about...