Discover this New Year:

The joy of simple living

It was around 11.45pm on December 31, 2013. My last incoming telephone call for the day (or for the Old Year) came from an old friend whom I haven’t seen for over two decades. We exchanged the usual greetings for the dawning New Year and had a pleasant chit-chat for a few minutes. Ending the conversation, I asked him,

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Vignettes

Getting into JK’s mood

Fewer names are more famous in philosophy than that of Jiddu Krishnamurti. Was it because he had a saintly personality? Well, not exactly. But his ideas are all around us. Although Krishnamurti, popularly known as “JK”, is no more, he shows up in weekly recorded lectures at the Krishnamurti Centre and a ready flow of books containing his philosophy of life.

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Thorns on the Side

A one-way ticket to Mars

Would you like to live on Mars without ever returning to Earth? More than 200,000 people apparently want to get a one-way ticket to the Red Planet. However, there is simply no way that so many people could be sent to Mars even in stages with the current technologies.

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