Nomad Scholar

 India is undergoing rapid westernization and that includes a drastic change in our dress code. We might call ourselves 'modern' and we might actually be but our responsibility doesn't end there. Most of us still stick to our hackneyed thoughts and beliefs and it's our responsibility to show them the light. As offending as it might sound, India has many traditions and beliefs that don't make any sense and contradict each other. On one hand, we don't let girls or women on their periods enter holy places and on the other, we call traditional dresses ('dhoti-kurta'/Saree) obsolete. Since Independence, India has become more civilized and educated. We've achieved milestones in fields of education, technology and economy. As we connected with the rest of the world, we took up their dressing style particularly Western fashion. We're more comfortable in denims nowadays. IS IT GOOD? It's absolutely necessary to keep up with the world and accordingly m...

A car hits you and you die…What next? Do heaven and hell really exist? If so, what is it like there? Numerous questions like this crowd our minds. Finding a definite answer to these questions as we’ve never been able to interview a dead person. However, religious texts speak extensively of afterlife and some people claim to have been to the other side and returned to life. Based on their descriptions, we can put together a rough sketch of how things after death might look like. Someone gets hit hard on the head, suffers a stroke or sustains considerable injury in a crash. He feels like he’s disconnected from the world and passes through a gate or tunnel. He is guided through realms and comes across things more ‘real’ than this reality. These realms are both familiar and strange, possessing a music that’s not quite music and a light brighter than any other light. There are different descriptions of the afterlife in which people come across their close ones, historical characters a...