Let's share and care - Udaylal Pai
A recent discussion with a reader. His problem: he had faced lots of setbacks in life – failures and unfortunate incidents. It made him so fearful and depressed. While talking to him, I understood...
Kishore, a reader, asked me this question: “What’s your opinion about lot of Hindus saying RIP?” “Why should I have opinion for each and everything? And even if I have one, why should I...
Ten years ago, I was travelling from Mumbai to Frankfurt by Lufthansa. My fellow passenger, a young Briton – Rohan Stanley – talked to me. Rohan Stanley’s ancestors were South Indians who settled in...
I have been receiving lot of letters related to cow slaughter for the last few months. Some readers would say: “Please write about cow slaughter in Indian culture.” Given below are answers to the...
“Why do you believe in Gods like Rama and Krishna? They are just mythological heroes or puranic story characters and of course NOT real Gods…” a question from another ABCD (American-Born Confused Desi). (Desi=Indian)...
Many hard-core Hindus used to forward me a totally illogical analogy related to the famous Puranic ten-avatars in our heritage. “The Dashavatar or the ten incarnations of Lord Vishnu is nothing but the theory...
I have been to Hong Kong ten years ago. I had a press conference there. I took my family along with me. One day evening, I found the group of journalists from Mainland China...
“The word Hindu has foreign origin…Europeans scholars state that the name ‘Hindu’ is a Persian corruption of ‘Sindhu’, resulting from the Persian practice of replacing ‘S’ with ‘H’…Persians could not pronounce the name of...
Do you know which is the second longest text in Sanskrit after the Mahabharata? No, it is not the epic poem Valmiki Ramayana – it contains only 24,000 verses. It is ‘Yoga Vasistha’ (Jnana...
I have been getting lots of messages and emails related to mental disorders – worry, anxiety, stress, nervous tension, depression and other conflicts and issues, asking if I can help them as my realm...
Recently, a young lady Meera Gopal (not real name) from UAE has sent a WhatsApp message seeking time to talk. She is facing a lot of problems, she said. Among lot of her problems...
David Adefuye, an African-American, my fellow journalist, told me that we are all sinners. “I don’t think I am a sinner…” I said. “Are you saying you are perfect?” he raised his eye brows....
