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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

RECOGNIZE THAT MOMENT!

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Speaking Tree, Sunday, 20.01.2013 A group of monks were going about their daily chores at the outskirts of Rajgir, where Siddhartha had ...

FOUR THOUGHTS: TURNING THE MIND INWARDS

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SAKAAL TIMES (ENGLISH), 29.07.2012 How often have we ever wondered if we had any specific advantages over other beings with a human bir...
Thursday, December 15, 2011

WHY kirana STORES WILL NOT AFFECT FDI? A Counter Point

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It sometimes amazes me how routine chores have the ability to bestow upon us profound insights to larger economic questions of international...
Friday, December 9, 2011

ARM WRESTLING A CHINESE ARMY OFFICER

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DNA National Edition, 08.01.2012 T he road to Tawang, we were to realize later, was not much of a road, but just long winding uphill switchb...
Monday, November 21, 2011

BEWARE OF THE SIX STAINS!

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SPEAKING TREE NEWSPAPER 13.11.2011 In recent times pursuit of spirituality has become a ‘cool’ thing to do. Young and not so old are seen ta...

The Union of Spirituality and Politics

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Times of India (National), Pg 16, Editorial, 28.10.2011 Noble Cause And Effect There’s no separating spirituality and politics when the aim ...
Friday, August 26, 2011

A bogey called 'Supremacy of the Parliament'

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Sakaal Times, Editorial, 30.08.2011 The pendulum has been swinging between stalemate and hope over the past few days and this has kept the c...
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Pune born & bred. BE, MBA, GDMM. Opted for alternate career after multi-national jobs sucked for 12 years! Dint play by the 'worldly' rule book of life & living. Still don't quite do that. Avidly trekked the Indo-Tibetan Himalayas. Lived with and trained under Tibetan monks and Masters for months on end. Ran a premium destination tour company, Moving Clouds, for 6years. Wife and two grown up kids. All of us at peace with life. Presently dedicate time to Tibetan Buddhist study, practice and teaching. Write for ToI's Speaking Tree. Active in issues pertaining to Local Governance in Pune. Convenor of G.O.O.D a group in Pune that outreaches Buddha's teachings thru Tibetan Buddhist Masters under the Mind Transformation Series. An ordained Ngakpa of the Palyul school of the Nyingmapa lineage of Tibetan Buddhism since March 2016. Also, faculty and resource person at Padma Mani Translation Committee, Namdroling Monastery (Golden Temple- Coorg), S.India, since 2015.
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