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Deriving happiness from ahimsa and slaughter is perhaps as old a practice as evolution of humankind itself. It continues despite the fact that the human civilisation considers it since at least 2500 years ago that we do not have any equitable or moral right to practice ahimsa and killings.

After a long battle the NABARD (Amendment) Bill got clearance from the Cabinet paving the way for disbursing loans to farmers at the interest rates of below nine per cent. It a great relief for farmers, for the banks as well as private money lenders of our country has been exploiting them for years by giving them loans at a much higher rate of interests than many other sectors including industries.

From the title above one may perceive that this writing is to play a lexical game upon a big number of quit smoking methods available at the market for the people in need. To support this sweet sense of humor, I would say, 'Yes, it is!'; nevertheless, it will be such an unfair underestimation if I fail to confess that, basically, it is not only supposed to be a particular, strange method of quit itself, but also a realistic view over the major reason why the present narcotic overuse has come about.

There are endless ways of telling one's story. For this reason poets and writers like Roger White and Bernard Shaw may be wrong to think that the passive nature of their lives disqualifies them from even attempting to write their autobiography. Roger used to say that he did not think it was possible for a biographer to make anything at all interesting out of his life. I think time will prove him wrong. He, like Shaw, thought his life was in his writing, or as he once put it, quoting Rabindranath Tagore: 'the poem not the poet.'

Is the physical world really destructible ? The question is important because we witness destruction everywhere. Then what the philosophers wants to say by indestructible?

The limitation of the physical world and the life itself has created doubts among many about achievability of Moksh in this life. However, some give logic that we can. What is it then ?

Illusion, truth and the truth is very difficult to differntiate. And when it comes to philosophy it become all the more difficult for many, except the person pursuing the highest truth.

Dharm consitsts of two parts - Adhyatma (Pertaining to body) and Darshan (Philosophy). The question is how to make balance between the two.

There are two points of view whether the Dharm or a religion is only a belief or faith or it is based on reason. Whatever be the claims, let us probe it.

There are two points of view whether the Dharm or a religion is only a belief or faith or it is based on reason. Whatever be the claims, let us probe it.