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Degeneration gap

We have all lost so many friends, family members, young people who had promising futures — that many feel they have run out of tears and words. As we grow older, we keep going back to a time whe ....

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Book Extract | A Homage to Shantiniketan Ashram and Its Legendary Gurus


Book Extract | A Homage to Shantiniketan Ashram and Its Legendary Gurus
An excerpt from Gaura Pant Shivani ’s book Amader Shantiniketan .
Shantiniketan Ashram. Photo: Soumen Ray/Flickr, CC BY 2.0
(Penguin Random House India, 2021), translated into English by Ira Pande.
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Gurudev was very fond of outdoor celebrations. A full moon, especially in spring, when the Ashram was awash with a silvery light, was like a personal invitation from Mother Nature to us Ashramites. A notice would come round that we should all assemble at a particular spot in the Ashram that night. And lo and behold, all of us would bolt down an early dinner and head there to see what new treat awaited us. Among the assembly would be our maid, Khudu, and the kitchen boy, Nagendra, his dark, lithe body almost gleaming in that light. ....

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Forget, we won't : The Tribune India


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Ira Pande
Today, for the first time in my life, I feel I have run out of words. This last fortnight has been so full of deaths and bereavements, of news of children dying before their old parents, or of friends who one had grown up with falling to the virus, that I have lost my faith and my tongue.
I do not know what will become of us after this long nightmare is over but of this I am sure that if we survive, I will never take our happiness for granted. Nor will I ever foolishly believe that if one has been good and law-abiding, one has the right to a happy life. Over and over again, I recall that famous Buddhist parable of a mother asking the Buddha why her only child had been snatched away by death. He listened to her appeal to do something and calmly replied, ‘Get me a handful of grain from a home that has never experienced death, and I will bring your child back to life.’ This is one lesson that we can never internalise simply because death, after all, hap ....

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