Tag: culture

“If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves. Our very existence in that distant time requires that we will have changed our institutions and ourselves. How can I dare to guess about humans in the far future? It is, I think, only...

“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines,...

Over the past decade or two, with globalisation and a sharp increase in international travel, food preferences seem to be ever-changing with growing knowledge and understanding of global cuisine. As palates are developing with exposure, diets are changing thanks to an increasing focus on health and nutrition apart from...

Storm clouds gather and the rain comes pattering down.  At first as tiny droplets and then as sheets of white – blurring all vision and bringing with it a cool wind that gushes through streets and gullies. Most of us dread the monsoons because of the inconvenience of it...

If you are still getting used to drinking and reading up (Chai of course), not to worry! We are back with another edition of Good Reads with Chai. However, we suspect that laziness might be holding some of you back, so we took a different route this time. This...

From big office spaces to start-ups, every employee looks for some basic needs/wants that are essential to keep his/her productivity levels up while in the organisation. While some can afford the luxuries of pool tables and recreation rooms, it’s not always the lavish factor that keeps the employee content...

World Milk Day is a day established by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)  of the United Nations to recognize the importance of milk as a global food. It has been observed on June 1 each year since 2001. The day is intended to provide an opportunity to bring attention to activities that...

Having set you off on a path of enlightenment last time around, with a books and brews listing to get your pineal gland all activated, we thought we’d go one further, and maybe help you consolidate this little reading sojourn, we might have you set off on. While we...

With the echoes of Earth Day still ringing through eager ears, we thought we’d identify a step in the right direction in a fun, DIY setting – composting tea leaves. Tea leaves are an efficient source of organic material for gardens and compost pits, as well as soil enrichment....

In this day and age of multiple streaming services, offer-loaded set top boxes, audiobooks and a whole lot of other stuff to consume, reading a book is now something of an underground cult. As attention spans are collectively reducing across the world, and prescription medications are being dished out...