Seekers Column

Sitting amongst the MBA guys at SJMSOM my ear carefully glued to S Gurumurthy's voice who was talking about different types of Capitals. I was aware of Financial capital as whole of the economic newspapers are filled with such stuffs.   He mentioned intellectual capital is the next important capital for any nation, as this would consume the first one. Next he spoke about Social capital. Difficult to generate and quite important for any society to flourish happily. Our nation had this extensively that is the reason why we were so successful until 19 Century.   I had no idea what the third one meant. After going through Francis Fukuyama's writings on Social Capital I came know how tough was to build this one.   Social capital is the trust and interconnection between groups of people/community. It may take generations to build. It is generally the result of common tradition and culture that people share.  Although on Wikipedia the definition of Social capital c...

The scene was set. Magistrate sitting on a high chair was questioning a 14 year old child. He said to that child you were caught in an anti government activity. Do you accept and beg for pardon ? The small confidant boy said NO. Magistrate asked his name. In a loud and clear voice he said Azad. Then he asked his fathers name. Boy said 'Swadhin' Magistrate went on asking 'Wheres your home?' This time more louder the boy said 'JAIL' Okay said the magistrate and ordered 15 lashes as punishment. We all must have heard this in our younger days. But nobody narrated us the interesting part which followed .. Before starting let us see what was lash and how painful was 1 lash or koda? A lash or hunter was made up of animal leather with interlocking ties. Sharp nails were fitted in between the leather knots. So when hunter was used at somebody, it used to curl the person. And some of the nails would get inside the skin. When it was pulled back nails...

As per the Ved creation is without beginning and without end. Shri Krishna in Gita says to Arjun that there was never a time when you didn't existed and there never will be a time when you will cease existing. Its just that I remember everything and you don't ! Now let's us examine how Swami Vivekanand explained the fact. One interesting aspect of Vivekanand is that the example he uses are so connecting with today's youth. Vivekanand speaks Science says that sum total of cosmic energy always remain the same. No matter how many star breaks and forms. Agreed! He further says Then if there was a time when nothing existed, where was all this manifested energy? As per the current theories a big bang resulted in the formation of this universe. Vivekanand continues Some say it was in a potential form, in God. In that case God is sometime potential and sometime kinetic, which would make him mutable. Everything mutable is a compound and every compound ...