Namit Arora
November 2009
Asian food for thought
I wondered: is it really true that the Chinese will eat any part of just about anything that moves? How did they turn out this way? How can two neighbouring Asian countries have such divergent approaches to what they consider food?
February 2009
What Confucius said
The gradual appropriation of Confucianism as a state-endorsed Chinese ideology undermines the Confucian ideal of personal liberty, virtue and civil social harmony.
August 2006
An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World
Mishra deftly situates the Buddha in the context of modern and ancient creeds, quoting many artists, scientists, and philosophers, including ‘Albert Einstein [who] called Buddhism the religion of the future since it was compatible with modern science’.
