Parenting Tips

"From next week, you are going to join Karate lessons," he said after Josh had finished speaking.

"You will at least learn to defend yourself, if you can't learn to keep out of trouble in the first place."

"I sometimes feel like doing some damage," Josh's eyes were filled with tears, "they are so unfair. They are not my schoolmates, but curses that plague me constantly."

"It annoys me so much, I don't know what to do with them... Or myself... Anymore."

In 1955, this 75 year old battler embarked on one of her longest and most grueling journeys.

A 40,000-mile, five-month-long tour through Asia.

"Time magazine recently named six inspirational young people in its first class of next generation leaders. People, it said, who are leaders of tomorrow because they are working hard to change their worlds today."

"A 28-year-old Indian architect, Alok Shetty, is one of them. Why? Because of his pioneering work in designing affordable flood-proof houses for slum dwellers."

“Come on Pa,” Josh was incredulous. “That story can’t be literally true."

"Crows are stupid. Look at that one. He looks stupid, he acts stupid, he talks stupid. Aesop must have seen a special crow.”

Our education system has become a race. A race amongst all sorts of participants. Fast and slow, bright and dumb.

And it’s not always the fast or bright who get to win this race. Like in the old Aesopian fable about a race between a hare and a tortoise.

How to make traditional spicy tea?

Isha teaches Hosh about Indian culture & gives tea cooking tips.

Informative story with delicious Masala Chai cooking recipe.

‘What do we work for?’ Rosh reflects, when his son tries to buy an hour of his time.

For money, or for the ability to spend our time & money with our loved ones...

What is mine? What is yours? Is it borrowed wealth or real capital?

What is this world, this life? These possessions, these relationships?

Insightful Sufi story...

Josh laughed at the funny joke. Rosh loved it, that he’d got it straight away.

“Wanna play a game?” he asked.

Josh nodded, a happy smile suddenly breaking up on his face.

"Biological aging happens at two levels - one at the level of my whole being which you call Pa, and another at the part level of my individual cells that make up my body."

"The age of my whole body is different from the age of my individual cells just like the age of your toy car may be different from the age of its individual parts.”

Spiritual Story: Why Do We Seek?

Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?

Why are these questions important? Why do they compel our hearts?

The sun had vanished. Rosh sat alone in the dark conservatory. Finally, he could bear it no more. A solitary tear rolled down his cheeks.

As if on cue, the dark clouds opened their hearts and wept with pain all night.

On seeing Nakagawa bow before the human image, Phillips couldn't contain himself.

"The old Chinese masters spit on Buddha statues or burnt them down!" he said.

"Why do you bow down before them?"