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Reviving and Revitalizing Sanskrit Language                                                                                               *Saumitra Mohan             Language has always been a very powerful tool in the evolution and development of any civilisational entity. It has often been successfully harnessed for uniting or diving people as also witnessed in the Indian sub-continent. It was the basis of British Raj’s notorious ‘Divide and Rule’ policy, resulting in th...

Living in a Spiritually Better World             As per the Hindu mythology, the Almighty created the world in the beginning of time and is said to have entered every living and non-living objects thereof. As per Biblical wisdom, He is said to have created the humans in His own image. It is believed that while He sent the chosen souls as humans to earth, He deliberately took our memory as part of His larger plan. So, while we play out our incessantly mutating roles as part of His larger design, we do the same as a tool in His hands, stuck in a never-ending ‘cycle of birth and death’.              While we were deprived of the memory of our past lives, we were also deprived of the knowledge and belief that we all descend from Him even though numerous sages, saints, prophets and messiahs have tried to convince us about us being an inalienable part of His eternal being as well as about the ‘Gra...

Challenging the Frontiers of Human Knowledge             Many of us, while going through the grind of humdrum human life, often pause to think of the endless races we find ourselves sucked into. Howsoever may we try, we still remain mired in this often needless and senseless chase after the goodies of life. While the hoi polloi has neither time, aptitude or faculty to even go beyond their daily routine to ponder over the existential philosophies of human life, those who have the time, interest or capabilities to brood over the basic existential questions of life remain ever disillusioned and disoriented.             Many religious philosophies including Hinduism have attempted explanations of the reasons and logic behind the fathomless architecture of cosmic creations. But the common man still remains oblivious and unconcerned with the same, preferring his/her preoccupa...

Need for a National Water Policy                                                                                     *Saumitra Mohan             The Rain God has been playing pricey for sometime in this country. All the skyward prayers and purported rain-invoking rituals seem to have been in vain with the rainfall still remaining elusive and erratic in many parts of India. The erratic and delayed onset of rains is said to have negatively impacted agriculture in this country. With the water crisis looming large on the horizo...

Enriching Our Eternal Consciousness             The proliferation of a mindboggling array of ‘ Baba’ and ‘ Guru’ within and without the length and breadth of this country adumbrate to the increasing alienation in human life which keeps multiplying with increasing complexities of our day-to-day life. The growing alienation and estrangement are actually more from the carnal and material world, thereby pushing people in search of the reason and relevance of our daily struggles to make ends meet.             This often pushes people towards the supposedly better-endowed spiritual savants to make the ‘head and tail’ of the generally inscrutable turn of events in their life. The people would rather make their life more meaningful than remaining stuck in the mundane mumbo-jumbo. After attaining and enjoying the basic comforts and pleasures of human life, they long to stretch...

Can We Defeat Death?                            *Saumitra Mohan             The ‘Second Law of Thermodynamics’ says that entropy results in the gradual decline and death of all systems including stars, people and the universe. The ‘Law of Natural Selection’ has ensured hereditary transfer of immortal genes through generations. This has also guaranteed the replacement of the present with the posterity through the instrumentality of death.             Death, defined as the permanent cessation of all biological functions sustaining a living organism, is brought about through ageing, predation, malnutrition, disease, suicide, homicide, starvation, dehydration, accidents or major trauma resulting in a fatal injury.            The remnants of an organism n...