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Sense of Power and Powerlessness                                                                                                 *Saumitra Mohan             During one’s interactions with members from different walks of life, one comes across different kinds of people with different kinds of mindset and attitude. Naturally, all these people have varying conceptions of life. But there definitely is a predominant idea about what makes a good life and this inva...

Managing Our Religious Institutions                                                                                                 *Saumitra Mohan             According to a recent study, some of the Hindu temples like Tirumala Venkateswara Temple at Tirupati, Siddhi Vinayak Temple at Mumbai, Sai Baba Shrine at Shirdi and Kashi Vishwanath Temple at Varanasi together have combined assets of more than 1.32 lakh crores, much more than the asset value o...

Knowing Our Self to Know the Supreme                                                                                                 *Saumitra Mohan             As we can’t feel a touch without the skin, can’t taste without the tongue, can’t think without our mind or can’t communicate without the intermediation of written or spoken words, similarly there can’t be any expression of Divine Creation without the existence of a Supreme Self. The Supreme Self create...

The Homely Chemical Warfare                                                                                                 *Saumitra Mohan             On 5 th December, 2006, a Dallas-bound American airline was forced to make an emergency landing at Nashville after a passenger lit a match to disguise the smell of her flatulence. Later, inquiry revealed that the feared embarrassment likely to ensue from an innocuous physiological function had led the Milady t...