Pearls of Wisdom: The Unfinished Love
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON—If you’re lucky, I mean really lucky, you will fall in love—a love that merges two people together forever, and in such...
Pearls of Wisdom: Pilgrimage to India-4: When Romance Leads to a Mini Poetic Stardom
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON—Moving from a small town to Allahabad was a huge deal for me. First, I was going to live on my own...
Pearls of Wisdom: The Courage to Be Disliked and Four Other Books
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON—As late springs and early summers in New England force us to take our living and readings outdoors, the long winter nights...
Pearls of Wisdom: Truth, Fiction and the Social Media Delusion
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON—"Is it truth or fiction?” I asked. “What difference does it make?” he replied. “Sometimes, in fact, most of the time, truth...
Pearls of Wisdom: Pilgrimage to India-2: Stitching Together Scattered Pieces of Love
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON—We all have grown with fairy tale stories of romance, love and happily thereafter. I am sure it is true for some,...
Pearls of Wisdom: Pilgrimage to India-5: The Ground Zero of Love, Envy, and a...
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON—During my latest trip to India, I had planned to visit the Ground Zero where I saw her for the first time....
Pearls of Wisdom: See Yourself and Things as They Are
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON—When Pandavas are banished to forests for 13 years in the grand Hindu epic Mahabharata, many rishis and sages come and pay...
Pearls of Wisdom: Pilgrimage to India-3: Trysts on the Stairs, the Irony of Destiny,...
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON—I had moved to a new town with my uncle and aunt. I was about 16 and had enrolled in the local...
Pearls of Wisdom: How to Attain Freedom and Why?
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON—If we compress the essence of life in one word, it probably comes down to: Freedom. Freedom to do things we want...
Pearls of Wisdom: Goal, Focus and the Process: A Few Lessons From Mahabharata
By Upendra Mishra
Once you set your goal, forget about the outcome and focus only on the process. That you can do, and in fact,...
