THE ESSAYIST

“Organized irresponsibility, in this impersonal sense, is this leading characteristic of modern industrial societies everywhere. On every hand the individual is confronted with seemingly remote organizations; he feels dwarfed and helpless before the managerial cadres and their manipulated and manipulative minions.”  C. Wright Mills, White Collar: The American Middle Classes, (1951)     ORGANIZED IRRESPONSIBILITY is no […]

“Because you are alive, everything is possible.” Thích Nhất Hạnh, Living Buddha, Living Christ   c Who are you travelling with in this journey of life? Tuning in to Thích Nhất Hạnh on a long-distance journey A storm of meetings, interviews, conferences, con-calls, clinical audits, chart completions  peer evaluations had scorched my soul in the […]

  Einstein:You are a Nobel-prize winning poet. They say a poet wakes up everyday and believes as if it is a new day – a brand new start.   Tagore:I wake up everyday with the realization: I am born to die.   Einstein:Death is disappointing. It often makes people sad – and so we refuse […]