Author: Rishvanth Reddy Mucheli
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Lalan Fakir: His Songs and Philosophy by Mucheli Rishvanth Reddy
For the times we live in, Lalan’s legacy and his songs are rays of hope. Lalan’s songs are great tools to construct cultural history, no doubt. But his songs can also be sung when reason loses its way in our conversations and actions. Instead of arguing over good and bad in our religions and castes,…
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Message for Our Times from Mahatma
150 years after his birth, relevant or not, Gandhi remained the most interesting and inevitable figure in the global arena. It is an undeniable truth that he is one of the greatest human beings of this century or even for the centuries to come. Gandhi is a man of multitudes. For his most adherent followers,…
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The World after Covid-19
In the past one month, I came across many articles in newspapers, social media posts, online news websites, and journals which are more or less discussing three basic questions: How to end Corona Epidemic? What are the effects of it on daily life of human being and on economies? and What after Coronavirus? -among these…
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Ends Don’t Justify Means
Can ends justify the means and whether ends and means should be seen as one rather than separate asymmetrical units are two larger philosophical questions. The answer, according to me, for the former question is no, and for the latter question is yes. Firstly, on the issue of whether ends and means should be seen…
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A Note on Jawaharlal Nehru’s Mission for India
Jawaharlal Nehru is indisputably the greatest ‘architect of modern India’ and a founding father of ‘multiple agendas’ for India. His role in sustaining India from breaking down or falling to the pray of sectarian divisions and in securing India from all kinds of external threats and interventions are phenomenal. Till his death in 1964, “Nehru…
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CORRUPTION AND CRONY CAPITALISM
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad man” -Lord Acton, the British Historian Corruption is one of the biggest threat to the welfare state and an issue which explicitly or implicitly affects every Indian. It hinders economic growth and social progress. It is hard to find a…
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NURTURING THE ‘WONDERFUL EXPERIMENT’
JBS Haldane, Eminent British Biologist of 20th Century, who settled in India and later become Citizen of India towards end of his life, when asked by an American Journalist about what makes him proud to be an India, he said, “I happen to be proud of being a citizen of India, which is a lot…
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A SHORT NOTE MAHATMA GANDHI’S CHILDHOOD AND LIFE IN ENGLAND
“All those who came in contact with him including those who were ranged against him perceived that there was something unique about Gandhi” (Varma, 2000). What is it that is unique about Bapu? I believe it is his continuous experiments in his life where he moved from inconsistencies towards perfection by being truthful to himself…
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Three Questions
This morning, I read a short story titled ” Three Question” written by Russian Novelist and Moral Philosopher, Leo Tolstoy in 1903. This story revolves around a King who was trying to find out answers for three question: What was the right time for every action? Who were the right people to listen to and…
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