Life is beautiful. Life is terrible. Life is simple. Life is hard. Life is a river. Life is a rollercoaster. Life is this. Life is that. Since time immemorial, human beings have grappled with this complex idea of life. What is life? How is life? Why is life? …

The rich landscape of Indian history holds testimony to the fact that excessively rational minds often find it hard to reconcile the spiritual with the material, simple living with elevated thinking and compassion with renunciation. Whatever way of life one adopts, there is always a question of belief and disbelief…

The emotion of ‘love’ has extensively been interpreted and analysed in the literary, psychological, and philosophical domains. Poets have implicitly developed interesting theories to appreciate this heavily-loaded word, often leading to diverse academic implications. Through fictional works ranging from poems to short stories to novels to films, artists have addressed…

To empathise with people is always considered good quality. We all want people to understand what we are going through, and hence, subconsciously, we enjoy the presence of those who serve as pillars of support when we are traversing tricky waters. Empaths are people who can perceive and cognise the…

Why are we so afraid of death? What causes the fear of death within us as soon as we gain our senses? Doesn’t the fear of death rule all our efforts? In the fear of a strange inevitable force, we all appear to be powerless and meek. We feel helpless…

The life of a spiritual seeker is not extraordinary. The mere difference between his life and one of a materialistic person lies in the fact that a spiritual seeker is clearly able to see the destructive power of desire and hence considers it his prerogative to be unmoved by the…

Most of us struggle with making correct decisions in life. Oftentimes, we are unsure if we are moving in the right direction. Amidst all such confusion, we begin to look for escape routes. Do our choices and decisions affect the world? Do we drive the world? Or is the world…

What is reality? Realists hold that reality is ontologically independent of any concepts, beliefs, and perceptions. Anti-realists believe that reality is coloured by the mind or cultural artefacts. As per the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis, everything that surrounds us is simply a fragment of a mathematical structure. An age-old philosophical question…