Vikram Hazra

“Mat kar maya ko ahankar, mat kar kaya ko ghamand, kaya gaar se kaachi,” (Don’t take pride in your wealth, nor in your body, for this body is weaker than the mud upon the potter’s wheel). These words of caution were sung to his disciple Bhavani Nath by none other than the legendary weaver/poet/saint Kabir […]

1: Darshana said…JGD VikramWhat is the best camera to use for good picture (SLR or Not) what photo editing software do your use if any?Thanks… ps. I like the look of your new Blog 😀 Hi DarshanaIt is said that “the best camera is the one you have with you at that moment.” Capturing the […]

It’s not that I haven’t had anything to say — in fact my head has been bursting with ideas these past few weeks — but I have been content to process them internally, and focus on applying them to my life. You see, I have never been able to easily articulate my thoughts, and especially […]

Nokia really is going through a rough patch. They have just not been able to cut it in the high-end smartphone market, and at the lower end the Chinese have pulled out all stops and left them struggling to resolve what is nothing less than a brand identity crisis. To compound matters, they ran a […]

The Yog Vasishtha, that ancient scripture wherein the sage Vasishtha unravels the secrets of the universe to the young, perplexed Lord Rama, is at once fascinating, revelatory, convoluted and confusing. The suggestion, especially, that each one of us creates, and then proceeds to inhabit, multiple universes simultaneously, seems to be a bit hard to swallow […]

How could the government not have expected the reaction of millions of Indians to Anna’s completely unjustified arrest? They really pressed a raw nerve by swooping down on the non-violent septuagenarian who is a model of righteousness, when noted criminals and purveyors of terror are either left scot-free or mollycoddled in the name of “democracy/secularism”!It’s […]

Perhaps the greatest hoax that we perpetrate upon ourselves as human beings is the delusion that we can “figure out” how life works. Guruji often tells the story of the man who spends all night making his bed so that he can have the perfect sleep, only to see the sun coming up when he […]