Shaking Off Flies
The chief of the Stasi, Erich Mielke had one overriding ambition: “to know everything about everyone.” For his authoritarian successors the ambition never faded…
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The chief of the Stasi, Erich Mielke had one overriding ambition: “to know everything about everyone.” For his authoritarian successors the ambition never faded…
…you are struck by the realization that you have actually got lost trying to find the capital city of a major industrialized country.
In India, the word “development” once referred to the spiritual growth of an individual. These days it refers mainly to the material growth of the economy, and while extravagantly celebrating the idea of unity, politicians are importing values, which by their very nature, give rise to disunity.
Are India’s deals with the West a predestined part of the great cosmic cycle? Must the downward spiral of growing division inevitably end with the the Natraj, Shiva’s final dance of creative destruction? And as home to one of the last living traditions that bears the common hallmarks of many lost civilisations around the world, what does India’s spiritual decline mean for the rest of us?
Containing interviews and photographs by the author
What is unsanity anyway?
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