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See what  I picked up from my WhatsApp group.. Uttam Kumar: It is said in the texts that 80% of the fighting male population of civilization was wiped out in the eighteen days Mahabharata war. Sanjay, at the end of the war went to the spot where the greatest war took place; Kurukshetra. He looked around and wondered if the war really happened, if the ground beneath him had soaked all that blood, if the great Pandavas and Krishna stood where he stood. “You will never know the truth about that!” said an aging soft voice. Sanjay turned around to find an Old Man in saffron robes appearing out of a column of dust. “I know you are here to find out about the Kurukshetra war, but *you cannot know about that war till you know what the real war is about*.” the Old Man said enigmatically. “What do you mean?” *The Mahabharata is an Epic, a ballad, perhaps a reality, but definitely a philosophy*. The Old Man smiled luring Sanjay into more questions. “Can you tell me what the p...

See what I picked up off WhatsApp... *Parent Induced Wastefulness* (PIW) When parents strive to give their children the best of everything at an early age, they are sowing seeds for materially insatiable monsters that are prone to sloth, apathy, avarice and fear. Don’t stand in self-defence as yet. I have proof. As I sit in my counsellor’s chair day after day I encounter an altogether a new disorder that I have come to label as- *Parent Induced Wastefulness* (PIW). Here are a few examples: * 26-year-old Manas does not want to finish his Engineering degree because he does not ‘feel like’ studying. But he harasses his parents every day for money. He tells me that whenever he did not feel like doing any particular activity, his parents told him he could quit. They always said they did not want him to get ‘stressed’ like they were when growing up. * 34-year-old Raghav is a qualified Engineer and is married for two years but his wife is not ready to live with him hence th...