Storyteller of mud and grass

तत्त्वमसि (That art thou) छ ांदोग्योपनिषद् ( Chandogya Upanishad 6.8.7) THE BRAHMN Arpita Chatterjee, 23rd Aug 2019, New Delhi The fact that we see reproduction as reproduction is the fundamental barrier to our understanding of the concept of the one (the only) supreme life (or supreme being). We have separated every thing from the other. The sun is separate from the earth, the earth is separate from the ocean, for that matter even oceans are separate from each other, water is separate from salt, the plants are separate from the organisms, the organisms and plants are different from their off springs. This separation is all into our minds. If we can think of a theory where one can just remove the separation theory, imagine, a new part of an existing plant growing out of it, growing and blooming a little differently from the older part, why should it be seen as a separate entity, it is just a continuum. What is the link between the first man on earth and me? Living thin...

THE GENESIS OF PATRIOTISM IN AN INDIAN INDIVIDUAL Arpita Chatterjee, 13 th June 2019, New Delhi I have just finished reading an interesting article by one of my favorite writers Dr. Richard Dawkins, it is titled “What does it mean to be genetically Jewish” . This article has finally pushed me to put my broken thoughts together on a similar topic. On his way back to earth after fighting a war on the side of the gods, Maharaj Dilīp failed to notice the divine cow Kamdhenu on his way and passed without paying his respects to her. Thereby he incurred the anger of the cow, who cursed the king to go childless. To negate the ill-effects of the curse, the king was advised to worship the divine cow Nandini, who was the daughter of Kamdhenu, and thereby to earn her goodwill. The king faithfully served Nandini for twenty-one days. He slept where the cow slept, ate when the cow ate and washed the cow and took very good care of it. On the twenty-second day, when the cow was grazing in t...