Yearly Archives: 2011

Link Bazaar: Empathy

Mary Gordon emphatically believes that we cannot teach empathy, but must provide the opportunity for it to be experienced. Continue reading

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Fostering Empathy

Empathy. Its presence–and as profoundly, its absence–can be seen amongst the myriad challenges that populate our daily headlines Continue reading

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The One Who Frees You

Who is the Master? That one who frees you Breaking the shackles of slavery from your feet. — Rumi (from Deccan Chronicle)

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Inescapable Network of Mutuality

Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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Arthur Koestler’s Mimophant

Note: It is spelled as momiphant in The End of India. Fixed the error with Mimophant, the accurate spelling. Throughout the ages, painters and writers of fantastic tales have been fond of creating chimeras (a monster with a lion’s head, … Continue reading

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Evoking Nostalgia with a Painting

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The pillars (தூண்) that reminds me of old homes? The cooking pots (மண் பானை), once essential, now almost extinct? The firewood cooking (விறகு அடுப்பு) that itself feels so quaint? The flowers in the hair? The courtyard (வாசல்) and the play … Continue reading

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