Learning To Be Happy
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Is There Too Much Stuff In The World? (opens the original)
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My mother is a strong woman. She did a PhD in astrophysics, a brave choice for a woman in India in the 1980s. She married a man from a different religion whose parents didn’t approve of the match. She worked at NASA for two years, writing letters to her new husband, the first person in her family to live abroad. Then she returned to India to start a family, and raised me and my sister while holding a full time job teaching undergraduate physics. Eight months ago, I learnt something about my moth
What next for the CJP movement? (opens the original)
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A Front Row Seat To Watch A Mind Take In The World (opens the original)
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When my baby was three months old, I showed him a wall hanging made of stuffed elephants. I held up the elephants one by one and counted “One, two, three, four…”. For some reason he found this hilarious. That was the first time I made him laugh. There is no mystery deeper than what will make a baby laugh, and nothing more delightful than finding the answer.The elephants were funny for only two days. There was one glorious week when sounds like ‘ba’, ‘da’ and ‘ga’ sent Malhar into peals of laught
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