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Zen Fable : Truths are many
Once there was a monk who specialized in the Buddhist precepts, and he kept to them all his life. Once when he was walking at night, he stepped on something. It made a squishing sound, and he imagined he had stepped on an egg-bearing frog.
This caused him no end of alarm and regret, in view of the Buddhist precept against taking life, and when he finally went to sleep that night he dreamed that hundreds of frogs came demanding his life.
The monk was terribly upset, but when morning came he looked and found that what he stepped on was an overripe eggplant. At that moment his feeling of uncertainty suddenly stopped, and for the first time he realized the meaning of the saying that “there is no objective world.” Then he finally knew how to practice Zen.
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We all have our own versions of truth as our perspectives are different. We need to understand this and be accepting of all versions amicably.
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Badrinarayan Temple authorities in Surat have installed solar panels to consume less electricity. The panels are placed on one side of the temple on the terrace. They have decided to use the amount saved to build a Sanskrit college and school.
When 
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Lucy Hughes is an eco-inventor, graduate from Sussex, who just won the James Dyson Award’s international prize for her invention of a 
The Hindi LGBTQ feature film, ‘Evening Shadows’, directed by 
One of Arun’s most challenging portrait was that of Lord Krishna’s portrait, which took him three years to complete, and is currently priced at a whopping one crore!
Banking on the farm-to-fork concept, Bhagwat is a farmer from Nashik who carries freshly harvested veggies and sells them in Mumbai. Best part? His profits have increased by 20 per cent and Mumbaikars get to eat organic food.
One cowardly person came to a master of martial arts and asked to teach him bravery and courage. The master looked at him and said:
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The people of Kiunga, Kenya, have been forced to drink, cook and bathe in contaminated, brackish water for years.
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A week after the birth of her child, hockey legend Pritam Rani Siwach didn’t know whether she would ever play for India. Three years later, she won the Commonwealth Games gold!
They are typically bold, sometimes risky, even dangerous but passion is what drives people around the world to go on adventures, and more over be the best at it.
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The British humanitarian accomplished enormous feats in alleviating the suffering of civilians in Syria.
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Twenty-seven years after tying the knot, the world’s first 
“There were 328 BPL (Below Poverty Line) families in the village. They had neither house nor land. I could uplift them to APL (Above Poverty Line). I think as a Sarpanch that was my biggest achievement and my happiest memory.”
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A 2019 report from United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has warned that the rising sea levels and climate change will eventually wipe out the Sundarbans, which is one of the world’s largest natural habitats and home to the endangered Bengal tiger.
Churu-based Dharamveer Jakhar has started a free school, Apni Pathshala, for underprivileged kids in his neighbourhood. The cop provides learning and school supplies, and wants to ensure children don’t get bogged down by circumstances.
The rapid disappearance of nature and wildlife has weakened the bond which humans have nurtured with them since ages. Under such situations, the possibility of a child interacting with an animal has become rare. However, Sanjeev Pednekar, a conservationist hailing from Bengaluru is working towards building a sanctuary, one-of-its-kind where kids or adults could observe and interact with animals away from the hustle-bustle of urban settings. Located just a few kilometres away from Bengaluru, it is home to nearly 300 rescued animals and even provides a friendly space to young kids for building relationships with animals.
In the 1990s, Nepali native Anuradha Koirala would walk by Kathmandu’s Pashupatinath Temple every morning. And every morning
In a heartwarming gesture, a Maulvi (Islamic teacher) of a local mosque in West Bengal’s Birbhum district inaugurated a goddess Kali temple, on the night of Kali Puja.
“Painting takes me to another world where I am as free as a bird,” says Judhaiya Baiga. She says this is her way of putting her village on the global map and keeping her traditions alive.
A professional dancer, who’d been forced to abandon her career after being pushed in front of a subway train and injuring one of her feet, attended a retreat with Maezumi Roshi.
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In her third year of chemical engineering at Bengaluru’s R V College of Engineering when she made headlines in a local magazine. She and a group of friends had cleared a lane near their college that had been piled with waste for months.
A resident of Kalyangiri, Hashmath Fathima started gardening seriously when she moved to her current house in Mysuru about 26 years ago.
“Empowering the nation with clean energy for a sustainable future.” Imaan Javan, Director of Operations, the Asia Pacific at Suntuity, was born and raised in Mumbai. After completing her Junior College from the city’s premier institute Sophia College, she successfully pursued a Bachelors in Life Sciences from Jai Hind College, Mumbai. She further enhanced her academic understanding with a Diploma in Forensic Science from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai.
This is the story of Amarjeet Singh Chawla, or now fondly known as SportySikh. Here’s the brave man’s story in his own words:
The Eastern dharmic religion of Buddhism attracted many connoisseurs across the world for its teachings on transcendental meditation to a point that Buddhism is now almost synonymous with peace and tranquillity.
One day Nasrudin was walking along a deserted road. Night was
Setting a precedent for other states in the northern part of the country, a park designed for differently-abled children has opened in Panchkula’s Town Park.
Vikram Agnihotri from Indore lost both his arms to electrocution when he was seven years old. But he trained his legs to do all that he could have done with his arms, so much so that he never felt like he was missing out on anything. He studied at a regular school, finished his master’s degree, and is now a motivational speaker who also runs a gas agency.
Akrit Jaswal was walking and talking by the time he was 10 months old. He started reading and writing by the age of two. He was reading Shakespeare, in English by the time he was five. Akrit has an I.Q. of 146, the highest I.Q. of any boy of his age in India.
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