Inclusive cities of the future: Creative commons, compassionate connectivity

Communities of thought, practice, and forecasting future shape our individual aspirations and value system. If these communities spur the conversation about the future generation, and forge rituals for remembering their share in our current consumption, they foster a different kind of lifestyle and institutions than when we ignore such conversations. Similarly, when communities invoke in … Continue reading →

Learning from Healthy grandmothers: from fast food to fasting foods

When did we last study the lifestyle, food habits, way of thinking and behaving and living of those grandmothers who have never gone to a hospital in their entire life of 70-90 years? Why do we always draw lessons for health by studying the problems of sick people? Why cannot we learn from those who … Continue reading →

Gandhian legacy for next 1500 years: A dialectical discourse

Shahid Bhagat Singh, whose birth anniversary nation celebrated recently, reminded us that it was easy to kill an individual, but not to kill an idea. Mahatma Gandhi was killed but his ideas endure. No idea remains valid for all times unless it assimilates evolving contradictions of social, cultural and environmental consciousness. When he gave a … Continue reading →