Pawan Kumar Jha Writer

Today is the 96th birthday of late  Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela , the man whose altruistic contribution to eliminating the legacy of apartheid in South Africa will remain the time-honored legacy for generation to come, not for the citizens of SA, but for the whole world.   If you ask me what personality aspect I like most from Mandela, it would be hard to tell, for the man was complete in all definition of humanity.  Today when we see people killing each other at the slightest provocation; when we watch them into futile embroilment of racial segregation/vituperation, institutionalizing poverty and inequality, and grotesquely fostering the horrible legacy of apartheid, when we see no semblance of racial reconciliation among the people born with same blood and bone, Nelson's altruism comes as an unthinkable serendipity. Long time ago in a very small village of India's Gujarat city, a saint-like child was born - unbeknownst to the parent, country ...

FORGIVENESS PURIFIES SOUL Yes, they say forgiveness is the most powerful spiritual weapon to stay serene from inward until the forgiver really means it. Long gone the days when I encountered many spiritual quotations narrating the significance of forgiveness, and they had actually their veiled spiritual sense, but alas! I  couldn't  measure the immensity of their wisdom. Does that mean I foolishly ignored the wisdom part of forgiveness? No, I  didn't . I, as a matter of fact, tried to be practical in my life and that very sense of pragmatism blocked all the incoming thoughts to me that could otherwise have enlightened my soul with the knowledge of forgiveness. It was quite incomprehensible to me that how come the deed of others, which delivered immeasurable pains and anguish in my life, be forgiven so as to put my mind or rather myself at ease/peace? I thought if the forgiveness were to be so vital in the sense that it would facilit...