Monthly Archives: March 2009

Holi: The Festival of Colors

Sunday, March 15, 2009

This past weekend, Dharma celebrated Holi, the festival of colors, with food and kabbadi in Leverett Old Library, followed by the core event of rang, or colors, in the MAC Quad. Nice weather and a diverse turnout made for a great day of fun!
But throughout all this celebration, I did not know what the purpose [...]

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Service

Saturday, March 14, 2009

I recently started volunteering during the overnight shift at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter (HSHS), and this week I had one of the most perspective-changing experiences of my life so far. One of the guests in the shelter showed me just how much I was unconsciously biased in ways that I had never realized. In [...]

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Religion versus Spirituality

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Karl Marx, the famous 19th-century economist, philosopher, and revolutionary, once remarked about religion:
“Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man — state, society. [...]

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