Debi Padhi

"The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind,” said Felix Frankfurter, the jurist-philosopher. This belief and dictum has…

It has become a practice, rather an obstinate habit honed over the years, with a firm belief in the elevating powers of music, that I start my day with a score of some lilting background…

As a young naval officer, with a diadem of Alexander Selkirk’s ‘The Monarch of All I Survey’ (in reference to the poem by William Cowper, 1731-1800) gait and anticipation, I was once…

Neil Geiman said, “A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.” Accustomed now, having been duped by Corona, with the spoilt choice of either sleeplessness, or a surfeit of it; I woke up…

"The Earth has music for those who listen,” said Shakespeare. These very words from our Bard of Avon resonated in my mind in the morning, as I sat thinking of this much-talked of and very…

“The unexamined life is not worth living,” uttered Socrates at his trial, for impiety and corrupting the youth, for which he was subsequently sentenced to death and drank the hemlock, as…