P V Vaidyanathan: 17 books

Theodore Roosevelt used to say “Believe you can, and you are half way there”. This one sentence embodies what true faith is all about. What is faith? It is a strong belief –a belief in oneself, a belief in the process of existence, in God, in the Universe, in one’s fellow human beings, in...

We come into this earth empty, naked, with nothing to call our own, except our body, which too is given to us by our parents and by the laws of nature. We are empty, nothing, when we are born. And when we die, we are again empty, naked. We cannot take anything with us, when we go. Not even our own...

Despite being blessed with the power of intelligence, logic, imagination and analysis, why do we humans struggle to use the gift of common sense in so many areas of our lives? Have you ever found yourself wondering... Why do we get angry or irritated? Why do we feel guilty? Why do we tell lies or get...