Pearls of Wisdom: When Your Thought Becomes the Master of Your Life
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON—Indian scriptures are amazing treasures of wisdom. I often wonder what was going on in the minds of those Indian sages thousands...
Pearls of Wisdom: How Do We Know We Are Happy?
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON—After staying alive, major goal of our life is to be happy. There are many states of happiness. First, we are genuinely...
Pearls of Wisdom: Love, Pleasure, Duty and Other Lessons
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON—The beauty of long winter nights in New England is that it becomes darker early and forces us to wind down our...
Pearls of Wisdom: The Genius of Oprah Winfrey
By Upendra Mishra
Oprah Winfrey is the wealthiest woman in the entertainment industry and the first African-American woman billionaire, media mogul, entertainment queen, a serial...
Pearls of Wisdom: Never Ever Assume Anything, Just Ask
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON—Just one year after I had joined the School of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi as a graduate...
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: 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: Your Deep Driving Desire is Your Destiny
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON—In 1976, I was in the 11th grade at the Government Inter College in Lakhimpur Khiri. One day while returning home from...
Pearls of Wisdom: Vashistha, Buddha and Warren Buffett
By Upendra Mishra
Some of my friends who know me well also know my fascination with Bollywood movies and songs, Yoga Vashishtha, Upanishads, the great...
Pearls of Wisdom: Your Five Best Friends
By Upendra Mishra
After writing my column on the five most potent enemies last week, it was a logical step to write about the five...
