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By the river of DAYA (Compassion). Bhubaneswar @70 – 1 –   The world’s first peace declaration was written on stone and engraved on the north face of the hill of DHAULI here. They are famously known as the Rock Edicts of Ashoka.   The 33 inscriptions of emperor Ashoka on DHAULI (272 to 231Continue reading “Bhubaneswar”

As this picture flashed past on my screen, I suddenly remembered one of my favorite childhood stories – The Rocking Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence. That house that never stopped whispering, “There must be more money.” From beneath the velvety cushions, from behind the satin furnishings it went on whispering, “There must be more money.”Continue reading “There must be more money”

In a given community as our wealth goes up our level of empathy goes down. In an experiment, in US a roulette wheel was control rigged so that a specific group will win twice as much as the rest. As the game went on, few people became richer and richer than the others. As theContinue reading “Kindness is a variable state.”

It won’t be long before intelligent machines begin to argue that, since they were created from human intelligence, they too are human About 15 billion years ago, the universe was born. It was a whopping hundred million trillion trillion degrees hot. As it cooled down and solidified, gravity developed. At 10 billion years ago, QuarksContinue reading “Evolution of intelligence.”

“It Floats”. Adversity is our best friend. It gives us the opportunity to innovate and break away from the pack. William Procter was a candle maker. When a soap maker named John Gamble joined him, both of them set up a soap factory in Cincinnati by the river Ohio. It was the right move. ThomasContinue reading “The P&G story”