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Category Archives: Society
History is Written by the E-victors
I read today on the Al Jazeera website that google are expanding their news search engine to include news archives from the last 200 years. I guess this will be a fantastic thing for journalists and researchers alike – giving … Continue reading
Posted in Society, Technology 1 Comment
Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague
A few days ago, while browsing the shelves of a closing-down sale at a second-hand bookshop, I stumbled across a copy of Geraldine Brooks’ novel, Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague (2001). On a whim I decided to … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Society, Spiritual 3 Comments
Scripture, Dogma & the Supreme Ideation
Photo by James Billings, who has been caught in the strife of a Lebanon being bombed. “So many scriptures say so many things, and they are sometimes contradictory to one another. Now what to do? What is an ordinary man … Continue reading
Posted in Society, Spiritual, Thoughts of PR Sarkar 1 Comment
Zinedine Zidane & the Yoga of Ethics
In a moment of testosterone-fuelled animality, a billion viewers cried in shocked unison, “what on earth is Zidane doing?” For, the captain of France’s football team, in their chase for the World Cup, had just launched a charging headbutt at … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Society, Spiritual, Sport 22 Comments
The First Human Thought
“The darkness of evolutionary night began to fade centuries ago when the first ape-like creature deserted his tree-branch kingdom and shambled out into the light of the plain. He was guided by something he could not understand: something un-apelike and … Continue reading
Posted in Society, Spiritual, Thoughts of PR Sarkar 2 Comments