By Sunil Kumar(Published in the Auro Society’s Renaissance Journal June 21, 2025) Whispers Among Ruins… When I walked beneath the towering stone faces of Bayon, their eyes closed in half-smiles of serene mystery, I was not a tourist. I was a pilgrim to memory, though I did not yet know it. People often speak
Read MoreBy Sunil Kumar Answered on Quora 8 years ago in 2017 Like nearly every religious founder or seeker; Mani (216–277 C.E.), a Parthian raised in Mesopotamia in an Aramaic-speaking Jewish-Christian community known as the Elchasaites visited India in 240 A.D. On his return to Mesopotamia(modern-day Iraq); he broke with the Elchasaites and founded his own
Read MoreBy Sunil Kumar Quora answer written in 2019 Morarji Desai is one of the most controversial PMs that India ever had and should be subject to more criticism and analysis than his fellow Gujarati who’s currently the Prime Minister. Many accounts of the period by different journalists have established his arrogance, resentment and hatred
Read MoreBy Sunil Kumar Quora answer written in 2017 To paraphrase a famous scientist; the best thing about being a poet is the ability to navigate strange seas of thought alone. Depending on the nature of poetry; you grapple with profundity, discover new idioms or cope with emotions and find new meanings. Sometimes new worlds
Read MoreBy Sunil Kumar The tree roots coiled around the ruins like time trying to remember a story it had once told — half of it lost to moss, the rest etched in stone. I sat cross-legged in Ta Prohm, the temple Angelina Jolie once ducked and rushed through in Tomb Raider, and let the
Read MoreBy Sunil Kumar “Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it’s usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.”- Jim Morrison Absinthe, libido, lament, art, creativity. The most visceral and evocative act – sex- and
Read MoreBy Sunil Kumar Chettur Sankaran Nair, a Keralite from a wealthy family in Pallakad district on the Malabar coast, was a distinguished Indian lawyer, nationalist and statesman. He became the youngest president of the Indian National Congress in its nascent years. In 1912, he was knighted by the British crown. At the time of the
Read MoreBy Sunil Kumar Save Hinduism from Hindutva is Arun Shourie’s earnest plea. Hinduism is the inner search, Hindutva is the means for social control and state domination. Nothing new under the sun. Heard this a million times from the vacuous opposition and a Wog media that seeks Western validation all the time. What a volte
Read MoreBy Sunil Kumar In man there is the inalienable impulse of Nature towards self-realisation, no struggle of the intellect to limit the action of our capacities within a determined area can for ever prevail.- Sri Aurobindo Poetry according to some is a window to the soul. For others like Shelley, poets are the unacknowledged
Read MoreBy Sunil Kumar Wonderful, eloquent and comprehensive work by Arundhathi Subramaniam. Liked her response to my questions and the appreciation displayed, which prompted me to explore more of her work. Glad that I read this. Profound in places, it has enhanced my understanding of the sacred feminine through different perspectives. My only gripe with
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