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We send our best wishes for the New Year to our friends all over India and the world! As we welcome the new year, we extend our thanks to all those who have supported our work in so many different ways. There are those who managed our Center on a day to day basis, those who helped us run our online programs, those who created and managed our website, those who translated J Krishnamurti’s books

 By Kamal Thacker   As I was walking by the lakeside one day, it occurred to me that our life journey is so much like a train journey. Imagine a situation where your destination was say Delhi and you boarded a train at Kolkata for Chennai. All  along, you thought that you were moving towards your destination and seemed happy in blissful ignorance. Let’s say you discovered, as the train traveled through South India that “lo, I

Michael Mendizza is an entrepreneur, author, educator, documentary filmmaker and founder of Touch the Future, a non-profit learning center, focused on optimizing human potential beginning with the parent-child relationship. He responds to some questions put by a teacher in Kolkata, India on education related issues. Question 1.Einstein, who went to school in 1980, wrote later: “School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. The teachers behaved like Feldwebel (sergeants). I wanted to

Joyeeta is Assistant Teacher, English and Education, at Nikunjapur High School in Bankura. She reflects on how her deep admiration and love for the works of both J Krishnamurti (K) and Tagore has led to a better understanding of both. K has become so much clearer to me and I keep discovering his teachings in different ways. Read on. I attended an online Bengali Dialogue program on15th August. I would like to share some of my

Hyuga Amir describes the huge diversity in his life journey.  His father was Iranian and mother Spanish.  He spent some years in both Spain and Iran. How did he finally land up making Japan his home? How did he connect with the teachings of Krishnamurti? This is an extraordinary story. Spain, Iran, Japan………from a very young age I have been in contact with distant cultures and places and raised in many different environments. My childhood