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3 Lessons About Social Justice from ‘Bhakshak’ Film

The word ‘bhakshak’ means predator. I doubt a better title could have been chosen for this film. Trigger warning and spoiler alert! We recently watched this very disturbing movie about the sexual abuse of orphan girls. It started off in a very alarming way, portraying the absolutely unconscionable way girls at a particular government shelter, in a place called Munnawwarpur in India, are treated.…

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4 Principles that make a Champion: King Richard

Recently, we watched King Richard on Netflix. In the first few minutes, we realized that this story was about Venus Williams, and Serena Williams, both of whom reached the top of the tennis world. Yes, spoiler alerts begin here. The film chronicles the childhood development of these two superstar tennis players. It shows us how Richard and his wife Oracene, build the confidence of these girls,…

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Life's Principles in Biomimicry 4: Integrating Development with Growth

Growth in nature might refer to increases in size, complexity, and age. Development in this context refers to enhancements and positive components that support growth. This Biomimicry’s Life’s Principle is very interesting: instead of fighting change, development or threats, we can learn newer ways of dealing with them so that the life of the whole community improves. We can combine development…

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Life's Principles in Biomimicry 3: Being Locally Attuned and Responsive Part III

Previously, we shared two of the strategies of this life’s principle: leveraging cyclical processes and using readily available materials and energy. In this post, we share two more exciting ones. The first is using feedback loops. A positive feedback loop is when one variable increases, leading another to increase too, or move in the same direction. One example from nature is the increasing…

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Life's Principles in Biomimicry 3: Be Locally Attuned and Responsive Part II

Continuing our journey of learning from nature and using biomimicy’s life’s principle of being locally attuned and responsive, we are looking at another strategy in this post: using readily available materials and energy. Nature is an amazing teacher. When we look at birds, they use locally available leaves, twigs and other bits and pieces to build their nests; bees collect nectar from nearby…

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A Case for Plant-Based Eating: You Are What You Eat

Recently, we watched the documentary on Netflix called You Are What You Eat. It is based on a Stanford study on the cardiovascular effects of a vegan diet. This documentary was interesting to us because it contains an experiment (a randomized controlled trial) based on twins. Essentially this means that holding genetics constant – because these identical twins have the same genetic make-up –…

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2 Insights from our 38th Book: Infinite Power

On March 5, I sat down with a little free time and a few hours later, I had compiled our 17th poetry volume. It’s a collection of my latest poems, written between 2022 and March 2024. It’s called Infinite Power: Overcoming Trauma with Nature’s Energy. A lot of my work is about trauma healing, and these poems are about how to work on trauma and become more empowered. In this post I want to share…

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Life's Principles in Biomimicry 3: Be Locally Attuned and Responsive Part I

In this post I’m continuing with life’s principles of biomimicry and now we come to the third principle we are covering: be locally attuned and responsive. First of all, what do we mean by being locally attuned and responsive? It is to be totally present wherever you are in the world or environment. This also means eating local foods, using local products, drawing on local experts and services,…

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3 Powerful Associations that Destroy People and Planet

I attended a webinar recently that reminded me about how powerful associations are. Childhood associations can be particularly strong and difficult to uproot. For example, if your parents gave you ice-cream to soothe you, or to mark a special occasion, or whenever they were happy and all was well, chances are you still associate ice-cream with happiness. For some of us, it’s any number of other…

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2 Examples of Divine Masculine Energy: Annapoorani

I have a confession to make: I love cooking shows and movies. It’s the chef in me that simply adores watching people innovate in the kitchen. When I saw that a film called Annapoorani was on Netflix and it was a South Indian film about cooking, I was intrigued. When I watched it, I was impressed by its treatment of women’s empowerment, and in particular how divine masculine energy shows up to…

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Life's Principles in Biomimicry 2: Adapt to Changing Conditions

It is amazing to me to realize how much there is to learn from Nature, through biomimicry’s life’s principles. In this post we’re looking at how to adapt to changing conditions – another life’s principle.  It means being able to do things differently from our set routines when the need arises, to achieve the ultimate goal. This saves us a lot of frustrations and heartache as well as making us…

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Life's Principles in Biomimicry 3: Be Locally Attuned and Responsive Part II

Continuing our journey of learning from nature and using biomimicy’s life’s principle of being locally attuned and responsive, we are looking at another strategy in this post: using readily available materials and energy. Nature is an amazing teacher. When we look at birds, they use locally available leaves, twigs and other bits and pieces to build their nests; bees collect nectar from nearby…

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Life's Principles in Biomimicry 1: Evolve to Survive

After defining biomimicry and Nature in the last post, we now look at some of biomimicry’s life’s principles.  But first, what is a life’s principle? According to the Biomimicry Institute: The Life’s Principles of biomimicry reveal the deep patterns in Nature that lead to successful and sustainable existence on this planet. They are a distillation of the consistently repeated principles within…

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Biomimicry: An Introduction

I know that 2024 is going to be a very exciting year for me. After a relaxing festive season with loved ones, I feel happy and energized. We are starting the new year with a stimulating subject of biomimicry and Life’s Principles in our Beyond Medicine series, after a hiatus of several months. Marilyn has some training in biomimicry for social innovation and she loves this way of knowing – she…

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Rise of the Feminist Man: Fighter

I watched Fighter yesterday, in what was intended as a light family outing (someone’s favorite actor is Hrithik Roshan). Spoiler alerts start here. What I didn’t expect was a sub-theme about gender equality and feminism. While the movie is about India and Pakistan’s battle over Kashmir, peppered with cool fighter plane stunts and eye candy (objectification of the lead actors), there is a serious…

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6 Crucial Insights about Narcissists: Part II

In Part I of this series, I looked at what narcissism is, the various types, and what the vicious narcissistic relationship cycle looks like, along with my own examples. In this final post, I want to explore narcissistic supply, the relationship of narcissism to trauma, and Rebecca Zung’s SLAY technique for dealing with narcissists, as shared on Mel Robbins’ podcast. Let’s get going. 4.…

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6 Crucial Insights about Narcissists Part I

I recently listened to a Mel Robbins podcast in which Ms. Robbins was hosting Rebecca Zung. Ms. Zung is one of America’s top lawyers, an author, and expert on narcissists. Her latest book, called Slay the Bully, is about how to deal with narcissists. The podcast was about narcissists and how to deal with them. It contained a ton of critical information about narcissists. I’ve had my own…