It’s easy to write on religion and spirituality.
It’s not quite as easy to practice it.
When disaster strikes, out goes spirituality with it. Read more

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Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 9:18 pm
Filed under religion · Tagged Bhagwad Gita, Bible, big challenges, Dhammapada, Dharma, economic growth, Finance Minister, hindustan times, inflation rate, Krishnamurti, legal charges, news, Pranab Mukherjee, spirituality, Thief, Vivekananda
With due respect to all — repeat, all — his other works as an economist, in public policy or at global institutions, I think Professor Raj Krishna made one serious error by terming India’s slow economic growth as the ‘Hindu rate of economic growth’. Read more

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Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 8:45 pm
Filed under India, religion · Tagged China, Cutting the Edge, economic growth, economy, Gautam Chikermane, ht blogs, Pankaj Vohra, price rise, Professor Raj Krishna
Wearing my business journalist cap, I went to meet him on matters economic — the G20 that I track very intensively, the threat to economic growth, the danger of inflation, land acquisition and so on. But Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is the government’s No. 1 trouble shooter and I brought him to Ayodhya. Read more

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Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Friday, September 24, 2010 at 11:45 pm
Filed under Research · Tagged Allahabad high court, Ayodhya, constitution, danger, economic, economic growth, Finance Minister, G20, Inflation, journalist cap, judgement, judicial process, land acquisition, Lucknow, Pranab Mukherjee, Secularism
The link between repressive regimes and banning of information — the new currency of social, economic, political and religious interactions — is tyrannical at worst, fragile at best. Read more

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Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Sunday, May 23, 2010 at 10:50 pm
Filed under religion · Tagged business, China, cultures, economic growth, Facebook, finance, globalisation, Google, ideas, Indian Muslims, Islam, mass media, Pakistan, relationships