Priya Sanjay Tandon

Tetsugen, a devotee of Zen in Japan, decided to publish the sutras, which at that time were available only in Chinese. The books were to be printed with wood blocks in an edition of seven thousand copies, a tremendous undertaking. Tetsugen began by travelling and collecting donations for this purpose.

This story is from the life of Gandhiji, not the Gandhiji whom we see in pictures, but Gandhiji as a little boy. At that time, Mohan as he was called, was hardly a saint. He was as naughty as children generally are and as mischievous! Once he happened to do

A man went to see a psychiatrist and said that every night he was visited by a twelve-feet dragon with three heads. He was a nervous wreck, could not sleep at all and was on the verge of total collapse. He had even thought of suicide. “I think I can

The Moghul Emperor Akbar was one day out hunting in the forest. When it was time for evening prayers he dismounted, spread his mat on the earth and knelt to pray in the manner of devout Muslims everywhere. Now it was precisely at this time that a peasant woman, perturbed

President Truman attended the Yalta Conference of the Allies during the Second World War. He found Winston Churchill very difficult, adamant and hard to convince of anything. On the other hand, he found Joseph Stalin of Russia very affable, friendly and easy to convince. Churchill literally fought before putting his

There once lived an Eastern king whose wisdom illuminated the land like a sun, whose cleverness was surpassed by no one and whose wealth far exceeded that of everyone else. One day a Wazir came to him with an unhappy face. “Great sultan, you are the wisest, greatest and mightiest