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• Personal Exploration-5: Scheduling an Ideal Day Routine for Enhancing Health and Wellbeing: Learnings from Circadian Rhythm, Chinese Organ Clock and Ayurveda’s Dinachara -April 15, 2026April 15, 2026
  This is my humble attempt at creating an ideal day routine for enhancing health and well-being with lessons learnt from the three knowledge systems of modern medicine, Chinese Traditional Medicine (CTM), and Ayurveda. Please feel free to critique it and point out any errors in my understanding.
• Personal Exploration-4: Understanding Trigunas, Pancha Butha & Tridoshas -March 30, 2026March 30, 2026
  Personal Exploration-4: Understanding Trigunas, Pancha Butha & Tridoshas -March 30, 2026 I had for long been intrigued by the three fundamental concepts of trigunas, pancha butha and tridoshas and the relationship between the three. This month I decided to explore these concepts and their inter-relationships to help me understand them better and integrate it with my life where needed. This short writeup is the summary of my learning. I request you to share if your understanding is the same as mine and if it differs in what respect it differs so that I can refine my thinking. TRIGUNAS: Trigunas consist of sattvic, rajasic and tamasic components. My initial understanding had me wrongly believe that the three were in the descending order of what is desirable, as I believed sattvic was superior and more desirable to rajasic, and tamasic was the least desirable. My recent readings have cleared this misunderstanding and made me realize that the three are interlinked and coexist in all physical forms. Further in all and every physical form all the three gunas exist, as physical forms are the manifestation of a combination of all the three gunas. Like the circumference and circle, they come into existence together […]
• PERSONAL EXPLORATION-3: IS CINEMA THE ULTIMATE ART FORM? March 16, 2026March 16, 2026
  Among the many definitions of art, the one that appeals to me is “art as a means of translating knowledge into experience.” Reflecting on this definition, I often wonder if cinema is the ultimate art form for its ability to create almost ‘real-life’ experiences. I am aware that this is a contentious idea given the longevity and significance of the other art forms like painting, poetry, literature, sculpture, architecture, music, dance and drama. This short write up is my attempt to gain clarity and validate my conclusion. Placing Cinema in the Art Spectrum  Based on my brief exploration, art can be viewed through any one of the four lenses: considering utility art is bifurcated into fine arts and applied arts, based on senses engaged it is classified into visual arts, literary arts and performing arts, considering time as a scale it is divided into static arts and dynamic arts, and evaluating using dimensions as a criteria into 1-D, 2-D, 3-D, 4-D and 5-D arts. Classifying art forms into one of these four categories is quite contentious, as examples can be drawn to show how it can fit under more than one category. Given this ambiguity, the guiding principle I have […]