Having recovered from COVID-19, around 15:45 pm, on 22nd January 2022, two police personnel from the Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations (IFSO) unit of the Delhi Police knocked on my door. I was deep asleep, amid the recent chaos. …

The most reliable source of revenue for the government is “tax”, and the act of charging tax is Taxation. Taxes are classified into two categories: Direct Taxes are those that are levied on the income or profits of a person and include Income Tax, Property Tax, and Entitlement Tax among…

Ankita* (name changed on request) switched on her computer, in her staff room, for updating daily diary and other academic tasks. As usual, it’s a ‘ritual’ every morning she follows on reaching school. …

“My life has become a rat cycle. The word ‘exhaustion’ would be nothing, compared to what I feel!”, says Anita*, an employee working with a top MNC in New Mumbai. She has been a “good” employee, she tells me. Sarcastically, after a few minutes of conversation with her, she reveals…

It is 6:35 pm. Jasmine is reaching home, after a tiring day at work. Her daily doses include meetings in the board room, calls with clients, and hectic travel. Nothing new, nothing less. But something ‘unexpected’ is about to happen. Her boss called her up and assigned a task, like…

Mind: a beautiful servant, or a dangerous master? Or, beyond this binary, does the mind exist et al? Mind is a mystery or mind is energy? Many psychologists, spiritualists, philosophers, and religious commentators have examined or interpreted ‘mind’, yet the study has not been concluded — for once and all…

This state of mind; this nature of living, is something that cannot be defined but experienced. It is not that it cannot be comprehended through words, but the qualification of ‘nirvana’ is such that it is beyond words, beyond concepts. Nirvana is not the end, not the destination. It can…

Viewing the thundering clouds at 6:40 am, I realize that nature also vents out. The sky has no limit; the clouds are speaking, while after listening to many stories of the people, I feel, I wish, I had a listener like this sky. Listening is an art; sadly, very few…

Unlike natural science, the ‘best part’ of social science is that it is not obligated by the principles of static laws. Yes, like natural science, it is vulnerable to dogmatism but it is also prone to discourses of refutation unlike the politics of “experts” played ritually by natural scientists. Another…