Category Archives: Stories

Faith, truth, and reality

Monday, April 26, 2010

On Friday we discussed the convergence of, and tension between, reason and faith.  Harvard in particular is an interesting environment — as a leading educational institution in the world, its values are well-grounded in ideals of reason and truth.  Faith — widely known to be that which we believe in, but which doesn’t often manifest [...]

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Selections from Rajaji’s Mahabharata

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

One of my many purchases on a recent trip to India was a copy of Chakravarti Rajagopalachari’s English translation of the Mahabharata.  Rajaji (1878-1972) was an important Indian statesman, but he spent a bit of his active life on literature and religion rather than politics.  His Mahabharata is ~450 pages long, which can hardly include [...]

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Searching for a solution

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

One of my best friends was telling me a story that her dad often told her when she was young:
There once was a man that was drowning in the middle of sea. He could see no land in any direction. So as he tried his best to keep treading and holding on to life, he [...]

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