Only small men discriminate saying: One is a relative; the other is a stranger. For those who live magnanimously the entire world constitutes but a family. (Maha Upanishad, 6; 72) Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (Sanskrit: from “vasudha”, the earth, “iya”, is and “kutumbakam”, family) is a Sanskrit phrase that means that the whole world is one single […]
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Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam is one of the most powerful phrases in Sanskrit which is the signifier of unity, peace and oneness. The phrase means that the world is one family. We all are familiar with this message in the Indian context that how being different from one and another, there lies an essence of shared essence […]
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Diary of a foreign student to India -Karen O’Neill As I was handed my passport containing my Indian student visa I was told by the embassy official that I was going to a fake university. She said that the university that I had listed was not on their register of legitimate universities. Ashoka university […]
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The word “Warrior” and “War” largely provides impression of heroism, eternal glory, fame to my mind. The meaning embedded in it expresses so much charisma and valor that nothing goes beyond sensibility of chivalry and fame of being a “Warrior”. But, interestingly, the phrase “Warrior Poet” provides pragmatics of culture and war together in the […]
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