Category archive for ‘U Mahesh Prabhu’ rss

  • A Homily on Love

    1/10/10 • (0)

    Not so long ago when I didn’t understand even the first letter of word “Love” – I would be in awe thinking about it. I was baffled when I saw young chaps stuck to their computer screens connected to the internet messengers only to speak to their “sweethearts”, or just talking on the phone seamlessly, without any sense of time, only to see their parents yelling at them, later. I couldn’t imagine as to what, and why, were they doing this? I found it to be silly. U. Mahesh Prabhu writes more.

  • MF Husain: Resolving the Controversy

    1/02/10 • (3)

    Maqbool Fida Husain, better known as M. F. Husain, or simply Husain, is now living abroad – in Dubai. He has been living there after his “self-imposed exile”. Revered by many as a painter – an artist extraordinaire – millions are spent by people to buy his masterpiece and the kind of publicity and support he enjoys with the Indian elite is truly enviable. U. Mahesh Prabhu writes more.

  • Demystifying the Sufis

    12/26/09 • (8)

    Perceptions are not history – they can never be. It is perceived in India, by many, that “Sufis are living testimonies of secular face of Islam.” and that “they have played a pivotal role” in shaping the secular fabric of this land. The facts, however, suggest otherwise. Folks’ Founder & Editor-in-chief U. Mahesh Prabhu Writes more.

  • And I became an unwed father!

    11/13/09 • (0)

    Folks Editor-in-chief U. Mahesh Prabhu shares with his readers his most intimate secret of being an “unwed father”!

  • Stitaprajna: Standing Consciousness

    11/06/09 • (0)

    By U. Mahesh Prabhu
    Feelings and emotions are explicit testimonies to the fact that we are men. But when we fail to tame them and flow with them, our life is on a sure path to disaster.
    There is a word in Sanskrit, which is largely unparalleled in any other language, called Stitaprajna. Simply translated the word [...]

  • Bachelor Blues

    9/26/09 • (0)

    ‘Not all are idiots’ they say, ’some are bachelors.’ But that’s only to say. With time we can only realize how much people dislike bachelors. U. Mahesh Prabhu writes more.

  • A Smile

    9/12/09 • (1)

    A Smile never cost anything. It enriches those who receive one without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash, and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. A smile can never be begged, borrowed or stolen, but it is of no earthy good to anyone until it’s given away. Folks’ Editor-in-chief writes more.

  • 21st Century and Brahmacharya

    9/12/09 • (0)

    ‘Many people talk of celibacy; but practical men are rare. A life of continence is really beset with difficulties. It is easy to tame a tiger, a lion, or an elephant. It is easy to play with a cobra. It is easy to walk over the fire. It is easy to uproot the Himalayas. It is easy to get victory in the battlefield. But, it is absolutely difficult to eradicate lust from ones bodies’ says U. Mahesh Prabhu.

  • Sorry Tale of a Fairy Queen

    8/02/09 • (0)

    By U. Mahesh Prabhu
    Born as the second daughter of Barrister Wolfe Fink and his wife Elizabeth on 15 September 1894 was Esme Mary ‘Molly’ Sorret Fink or Molly, as she was better known. Molly’s father Wolfe was a svelte person, truly intellectual, but never good at managing wealth. But, though poor, Wolfe ever made sure [...]

  • Failed Love?

    8/02/09 • (2)

    By U. Mahesh Prabhu
    It happened today. A friend of mine gave me a call and said that he wanted to end his life. Yes, he said he wanted to ‘commit suicide’.
    ‘What the hell!’, I shouted.
    ‘Because it IS hell… I want to give it up!’ he responded.
    ‘Have you made up your mind?’ I asked.
    ‘Yes’, he said, [...]