Living Freedom Archive

People let’s look what’s really going down
In old Suvanna-bhumi there are gems in the ground
No rice on the table — oldest story in the book
Mercedes in a new city of generals and crooks
The Lady’s under lock and key, she says: “Freedom from fear!”
Monks and nuns are on the streets, shine their light through clouds of […]

In the eloquent book, “The Unconquerable World,” author Jonathan Schell traces the grim and brutal history of warfare. A core notion of the book is that war has become non-winnable in the settling of disputes.
Due to the evolution of nuclear weapons and the mutual annihilation inherent in their use, the reliance of politics on […]

Freedom to me is the right to be the best human that I can be. That includes the right to celebrate life; to love, to appreciate and enjoy the life and love of others as well. It is essential that we each respect other; that we listen carefully with open-hearted reverence and recognize ourselves in […]

Throughout my life I’ve believed many things. Some things, the dogma of church and country, I believed because I was told to. Other things I desperately wanted to believe.
Over time, I slowly began to examine my beliefs, picking up each one and holding it against my experience to see if it belonged, like testing colors […]

The Jewish New Year began on Friday, September 23rd at sundown. I learned that this year, Rosh Hashana happens to coincide with Ramadan. Led by our rabbi, we stood and sang for Shalom, peace throughout the world. Over and over again, our songs and prayers hoped for a better world, in which […]

To me, there are many broad categories of freedom like personal freedom, social freedom, economic freedom, political freedom, etc. Some of these categories are inherently linked to each other. Personal freedom enables a person to do something positive in his personal interest, family interest, organizational interest or national interest. Rural and illiterate women in many […]

Nearly forty years ago, Janis Joplin screamed in song that “freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.” A few years before her, an impassioned Martin Luther King called out his dreams of freedom, amplifying the determined footfall of Gandhi’s earlier satyagraha, or non violent protest for freedom. Their messages […]