THE INDIAN COMMENTATOR

Statue of Jesus from Christ the King Roman Catholic Church, Koothuparamba, Kannur, Kerala Christ gives us a simple formula: “Follow me with your cross.” (Matthew 16:24-26) What was the cross in the life of Jesus? It was His way of redeeming the world. The cross is for us a symbol of redemption and therefore a sign of true love, as it shows us how much God loves us that he sent His only begotten son to die for our sins. For Jesus, the cross was doubly painful as an instrument of torture. This Roman tool for execution is designed to give a painful slow death to its victims, the criminals and enemies of the state. However, Jesus was also bearing the sins of mankind. Being a sinless man, an innocent man, he suffered much more than a criminal who would be sent to the cross for death. For Jesus, the sins of mankind weighed on his shoulders with many times the weight of the wooden cross. Thus, the True Cross of Christ becomes a divine tool of redemption. Although painful, Jesus endured the pa...

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Half Empty to Half Full: The Mindset Pivot is written by Srishti Baweja and published by Gurukul Publishing, Hyderabad. Srishti Baweja is the co-founder of E2E Networks Limited and serves presently as its COO and whole-time director. Half Empty to Half Full is her debut book. In this book, Srishti Baweja shared her deep convictions about how a changed mindset can positively influence one’s personal as well as professional life. As the title rightly suggests, the half-empty or the half-full mindset plays an important role in deciding our choices. The author begins the book with a “preface” and a “prologue.” The preface was short and felt a welcome gesture into the prologue. The prologue is like a vortex that will draw you right into the heart of the book. It speaks in detail about what made Srishti an author. She takes our hand and walks into the deepest and occasionally painful memories of her life. Reading this prologue made me see myself in a mirror, when I was in my younger days, ...

For some people, the ultimate purpose in life is to find permanence. They try to attain it by achieving a permanent income or settling with their family. In this process, there is always scope for improvement. What is permanent is real, a lesson we already know as children. Some lessons are learnt from childhood, some exist in our mind even before we are born. However, the person seeking permanence in life encounters the stark reality that nothing we earn or amass or call ours is permanent in life. Where is permanence? Is seeking permanence a delusion? Perhaps it is, when you seek what can be lost, like material things with an expiry date. When you seek things with longer expiry dates, they will remain with you longer. So, can we say permanence is relative, depending on the longevity of the things that matter to us? We must rightly jump to a conclusion here: permanence depends on the things that we consider, which also gives the relativity hypothesis a strong foothold. The question rem...