Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance’—Coco Chanel
Sudha Murty has lived life on her own terms: she got her first job and changed the fundamentals of how the company hired female engineers; she funded her husband, N.R. Narayan Murthy’s, dream tech start-up (Infosys) while she ran the household and raised their children; and later, when Infosys was established, she chose to teach computer science while penning a slew of bestselling books.
A philanthropist who works at the grass roots, she is the chairperson of Infosys Foundation and a celebrated member of the Gates Foundation. The prolific author of several bestsellers, Murty champions the culture of Karnataka, and with her family, symbolizes a new India that thrives on knowledge and innovation.
But how does a superwoman like this come into existence? How does she manage to do it all? Read on as Gunjan Jain attempts to find the answers to these questions and more in this inspiring profile.
I take life as it comes. I have no complaints and hold no grudges. I am essentially content, and god is very gracious.’
Rajashree Birla was only ten when her engagement to Aditya Birla was fixed. Today, she spearheads the Birla group’s corporate social responsibility activities across forty companies. For someone who has been very successful with a job that was thrust upon her by circumstances, and for which she was totally unprepared, it is amazing to see her journey.
From dealing with curveballs of every kind to making every challenge a strength, Rajashree Birla’s story is truly inspiring. Read on as Gunjan Jain explores the secret behind the enigma that is Rajashree Birla.
Power cannot be brokered. Power is something that you lend to people and motivate them.’
She is the soft power of Reliance’s business. She is the perfect wife, an inspiring mother, an educationist par excellence, a hands-on patron of sports, a danseuse and a champion of social causes. She is Nita Ambani.
What does it mean to belong to a family that constantly makes headlines, to perennially be in the spotlight and have every move scrutinized? How did Nita—a very private person—grow into her very public role so flawlessly?
Read on and find out in this fascinating profile by Gunjan Jain.
What if we don’t know our own dark secret?
A year after the horrifying death of his fiancé Kashika, Kanav Raghuwanshi finds himself in therapy struggling to move on. Anahita, his therapist cum confidante, tries her best to help him, but when Kanav starts to see unmistakable signs of Kashika’s reappearance all over the city, coupled with an unoccupied neighbouring flat that is the source of all things mysterious, Kanav enters a battle between his imagination and reality.
Meanwhile, Meenakshi, Kanav’s new love interest, is all set to steal his heart, until Kanav discovers she’s not who she says she is. In fact, it seems no one is who they say they are. Perhaps not even Kanav himself.
Red Suits You is a short psychological thriller by Novoneel Chakraborty that promises to keep you pinned to the edge of your seat.
“Only one moment exists—this moment—all else is a projection of the mind.”
We live planning for a future that is never guaranteed, building towards a life that we may not even be around to enjoy. The only guarantee one gets in life is death and it is the most difficult truth of all to accept.
The first step along the path of enlightenment is mindfulness—being extremely present in the moment, living the now to its complete potential. In fact, this is usually considered the secret to a happy life. And yet, so many of us forget to live in the moment, choosing instead to live weighed down by our past while constantly worrying about the future.
Living in the Now is Osho’s eye-opening guide to living a truly happy and fulfilled life, and how to make the most of our time on earth.
“You are both and neither, and that is transcendence.”
The ultimate destination on a spiritual journey is enlightenment. But there’s a reason why countless people embark on this journey yet only a handful reach the destination.
Enlightenment is as much about the journey as it is about achieving the goal at the end. It is understanding and accepting different truths—some easy and some nearly impossible to handle. It is about singular focus and accepting the bigger picture at the same time. In other words, it is anything but straightforward.
However, if there’s anyone who can explain a difficult concept in the most straightforward manner, it is Osho and in What is Enlightenment?, he does exactly that. Read on.
When a person truly becomes a disciple, trust without any judgements is the only trait they must possess. The unknown—the knowledge a master possesses—can only be learned, not taught. And the only person who knows whether the disciple is ready is the master.
This is why, truly knowing your master is as important as becoming a true disciple. But how does one get to know their master, let alone get chosen by one?
Read on as Osho throws light on a subject that is rarely talked about in this short but eye-opening guide, How the Master Chooses a Disciple.
“When you don’t search for happiness, happiness searches for you.”
The biggest irony of life is that we end up spending a lifetime searching for our true purpose without actually living. Learning to value the life we have been given is a rare skill and sadly, one that very few possess.
There is plenty of literature out there that claim to help one achieve wealth and success and not nearly enough literature that tells you to cherish the more important things in life, like love and happiness.
In The Gift of Life, Osho analyses a short but intriguing Sufi story to talk about the real gift we have all been given: life. Read on.
“The husband of an ugly woman is best blind”
This opening to an intriguing Sufi story is the foundation to understanding ignorance and all that we forego because of it.
We live our lives according to an ambiguous ‘moral compass’ that’s justified by our conscience, not realising that every person’s moral compass aligns with a different north and they all believe, just like us, that they’re right.
There are countless opportunities to gain self-knowledge and yet, we as a species choose to remain ignorant. Do we realise what we lose when we choose ignorance over knowledge? What is stopping us from taking that leap into the unknown?
Read on as Osho throws light on these questions and many more like them in Going Beyond Ignorance.
“All knowledge is personal. No knowledge is impersonal.”
Everything that we know about the world around us, all our knowledge, is tainted by how our mind perceives it upon observation. In other words, it is entirely possible that one person’s reality is completely different from other’s.
It isn’t easy to grapple with this truth, but just as beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, you can’t fault another person for their opinions and their own reality. But that being said, does it negate the existence of an ‘absolute truth’?
Read on as Osho throws light on this strange paradox through the lens of another Sufi story in The Mind and its Perceptions.
