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… people don't use toilet paper. They rinse their butt with fresh water from a hose next to the toilet.

It makes so much more sense than the toilet paper. Why not wash it properly when you're done? Wi…

There's another theme in The Lives of Others, the great German movie about life in the GDR, and that is the police state where citizens are being watched routinely and thrown in jail with no or only a…

In India, milk comes in plastic bags:

Wild boars roam the streets:

And coconuts and motorcycles look great together:

I watched The Lives of Others a few days ago, and it touched me deeply. If you haven't seen it, go watch it. I'm not generally a fan of German movies or German just about anything, apart from cars (so…

I've been struggling with my Śīrṣāsana - headstand - ever since I first started doing it four and a half months ago. And it's an interesting challenge.

In the begining, I had no idea what I was doing,…

Ambiversion - that was new to me. Extrovert and introvert, yes. But not ambivert. According to Wikipedia:

An ambivert is normally comfortable with groups and enjoys social interaction, but also relis…

What an incredible idea and journey Kumare is. A guy of Indian descent from New Jersey is in search for a guru, but gets disillusioned with all of the gurus he finds. So he decides to grow a beard and…

Steven Pressfield keeps the hits coming:

Which brings me back to depth of commitment and the question, “What, then, are we committed to?” Here’s how I answer that for my own life:

I’m not committed t…

I'm absolutely convinced that there's a future for good writing. It's just that most of what passes for writing on the internet, in the established media, is not. It's horribly conceived of, it's horr…