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. …
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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 …
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 …
Book Review 2026.02: Human kind, (2019), Paperback, 399 pages, March 12, 2026 Picked up this book in my first book browsing haunts of 2026. After reading it, I feel I could not have picked up a better book for its optimism that is backed by evidence; limited, but significant. This book reinforces the optimism in me and cleared the rosy lens with which I view the world for better view. The author starts by contrasting the two conflicting word views …
Exploring the Nava-rasa concept of aesthetics in Indian thought, I was intrigued by the absence of the two prominent emotions: happiness and sorrow that we more frequently experience in our lives. What I thought was a logical, missing piece in the puzzle, soon had a logical explanation that to me was quite revealing and insightful. This short write-up is my learning from this exercise. I seek your critique to see if I have missed out on anything and help me …
1. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. 2. In giving advice, seek to help not to please. 3. Mobility enhances competition. 4. Tolerance is part of justice. 5. The first duty in love is to listen. …
Book Review 2024.08: The Upanishads- Breath of the Eternals, 128 pages, Paperback, 2002 This short concise book of Upanishads was the logical book to follow after I had read The Essentials of Hinduism that provided a birds’ eye view of the Sanatana Dharam. Unlike in the past where I had started books on Upanishads only to drop it quickly, what helped me complete this book was its clear and simple language and the authors intent to convey the gist instead …
Book Review 2024.09: Dopamine Nation-Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence, 234 pages, Paperback, 2002 A byproduct of my online book buying habit is that I get a lot of articles about books in my mobile. One such article was about this book and its byline of ‘balance in the age of indulgence’ caught my attention resulting in this book purchase. Being a reasonably short and well written book, I completed reading it in a week. The need for this …
Commissioned by Development Foundation as Working Paper 002 and published in September 2012, this paper attempts to evaluate the impact of trade and commerce on human development in the Indian society over the last two millennia. A defined framework is used for this purpose in which social acceptance of private property reflected in the rules and norms for its recognition and transfer, and the relative importance of unilateral or “free” transfer is contrasted with trade or bilateral exchange of goods …
Corporate Disclosures: The Origin of Financial and Business Reporting 1553-2007Ad Hardcover – 1 January 2017 Spanning over two millennia of time and five continents of space, this book narrates the unfolding of financial and business reporting. The first part of the book traces the origin of the ‘company’ as a form of business organization and the evolution of bookkeeping. The second part: The Accounting Edifice, depicts events that led to the disclosure of the balance sheet, the profit and loss account, …
About the Book: The Wisdom of Ants: A Short History of Economics: As the fable goes, in the summer when the ants were busy gathering food, grasshoppers lived a carefree life. Come winter, the ants lived off their store, while the grasshoppers were left starving. It appears that this lesson was eventually learnt by humans, who shifted from hunting and gathering to agriculture. The wisdom of ants that they borrowed did not end here but helped to lay the foundation …
This is an extract from the book titled “Corporate Disclosures: The Origin of Financial and Business Reporting 1553—2007 AD” by Shankar Jaganathan and published by Taylor & Francis Books India Pvt. Ltd. / Routledge India in 2008 Arthasastra, written by Kautilya in the third century BC identified forty different ways to embezzle the Treasury. This is one of the earliest records documenting the science of embezzlement. The logic for listing them out is probably to educate supervisors on what to …
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