INDIA NEWS
March 1-15, 2021 - Vol 1, Issue 17
BOOKS & LITERATURE
Awakening your ‘soulprint’ to Suicide preventer comes to terms with suicide find happiness and success suicide loss.
single human being on this planet has a unique soulprint. Nature never repeats itself in anything it does, thus two soulprints are never ever alike and nor are their material or spiritual journeys. In life’s journey, you can be sleeping while you are awake and be awakened even while you are asleep.
By Vishnu Makhijani It was a chance discovery of a book written 100 years ago by his great great grandfather that blended spiritual wisdom to aid decision-making that inspired writer and life coach Aditya Nath to delve deeper into the subject and pen his debut novel, “Awaken Your Soulprint - Discovering Your Own Special Path To Happiness And Success” that he believes can also provide the path ahead in today’s pandemic times. “As destiny would have it, one day on Amazon.com I stumbled upon the book of my great great grandfather written over 100 years ago. The essence of the book was spiritual wisdom based on the Vedas, which could be used in our everyday decision-making. This inspired me to start seeking a soulful path to my material world problems. “With the passage of time and having experienced a blissful state of balance between my inner and outer worlds, I thought of sharing this knowledge and learning with my friends and family and started penning them down. So, I can say I got the ‘writing bug’ through my family tree,” Nath, an alumnus of the Shri Ram College of Commerce and the National Institute of Fashion Technology who worked for a few years in a Fortune 100 company in US and then chose to come back to his roots in India, told IANS in an interview. Just like a thumbprint, every
as much internal as outer as one can’t exist without the other. To find yourself, you need to first lose yourself. This process of finding, losing and re-searching yourself showed me the path that has become the index of the book
She distils her experience, personal and professional, and her research to write “Left Behind” (Westland), a profoundly moving book that is an important contribution towards addressing the shame, secrecy, silence and stigma of suicide loss, and a step towards bringing it out of the
Thus, “Awaken Your Soulprint” (Rupa) provides you the tools to answer life’s existential questions and helps you discover your soulprint in order to create your own customized spiritual path. It postulates the concept of soulful living, a spiritually evolved way of modern-day thinking, based on the realizations of thousands of years of human evolution. Nath elucidates on how to increase one’s spiritual metabolism and propagates four simple tools - spiritual wisdom, spiritual practices, faith, and devotion - for one’s awakening. These tools activate and guide your energies to take your awareness towards the possibilities of higher existence for yourself. How does one relate this book to the present pandemic times? “The book works on balancing the inner and outer worlds, which becomes more relevant in times of unbalance. Pandemic has partially lockdown our material world globally and has given the opportunity for us to focus to foster our spiritual world. We could already see few people chose to reinvent themselves even during these horrible times by focusing on their inner energies. The book provides tools and framework for each soulprint to be awakened to seek its own solutions in any of life’s situations,” Nath explained. Speaking about the research that went into the book, he said this “had been in the form of searching again. My research was
itself”. “I found wisdom everywhere I went, available only to those who are awakened to see it. On my reading ancient texts from all over the world (holy or non- religious), I soaked the essence of them, albeit in an unbiased way. I was fortunate to connect the universal dots of spirituality, which guided me to write about these gems in the book,” Nath added. What of the road ahead? What is his next project? “The book has been an important step for me towards achieving my life’s calling. I now aspire to reach out and contribute meaningfully to the soulprints trying to walk on their own path by spreading the knowledge from the book. My purpose is to share the path of attaining peace, happiness and success to whoever is seeking it. My inner journey connects with my outer for which I have miles to go before I sleep,” Nath concluded.
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS): In April 2017, Nandini Murali lost her urologist husband Dr T.R. Murali to suicide. In the wake of that devastation, her life changed forever. As she struggled to find her feet and begin to live again, Murali, a certified life coach and a suicide prevention and mental health activist, discovered that survivors of suicide loss are unheard and unseen, their needs and concerns not recognised. She writes of the angst of the survivor, and of the overwhelming feelings of confusion, anger, shame, loneliness and guilt that survivors of suicide loss face. Her lived experience has inspired Murali to institute intervention strategies, through her initiative SPEAK to create safe, supportive spaces to prevent suicide and promote mental health and SPEAK2us, a mental health helpline for those grappling with suicide and for survivors of
closet. A chronicle of love and loss, “Left Behind” is an inspirational story of transmuting pain into purpose, healing and transforming through loss, building resilience and discovering newer meanings in life symbolised by a very evocative cover featuring an open oyster shell with the pearl intact. Nandini Murali has a doctorate in Gender Studies, is a gender and diversity researcher and practitioner as well as a communications professional. She also writes on Hindu dharma issues in a contemporary context and is a student of Vedanta. This is her fourth book. Her collection of poetry on love, loss and longing can be found at www. wildflowerpoetry.com
The race to create a world-class ventilator to combat Covid-19 A raging pandemic, a dearth of life-saving equipment, and 90 days to manufacture a worldclass ventilator. On March 24, 2020, a nationwide lockdown was imposed in India in the wake of a formidable adversary, the Covid-19 pandemic. With the number of cases increasing exponentially, hospitals were faced with a dangerous shortage of life-saving equipment and personnel. In response to the imminent crisis, Amitabha Bandyopadhyay and Srikant Sastri formed the IIT Kanpur Ventilator Consortium as a task force to assist a young startup, Nocca Robotics, in building affordable high-quality ventilators for India’s cash-
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strapped hospitals. Under the mentorship of reputed industry leaders, the task force and the Nocca team worked tirelessly against unprecedented odds - trammelled by a ban on imports and telecommuting through Zoom and Whatsapp in the face of stringent lockdown restrictions - to manufacture the Noccarc V310 in record time. This is the incredible story of its conception, creation and success, in the words of the task force coleaders themselves. Inspiring and riveting, “The Ventilator Project” (Pan Macmillan India) also offers an unmatched blueprint for business in the post-Covid era through
first-hand lessons gleaned during the task force’s phenomenal 90day run. It proves that India, with its deep recesses of talent and ingenuity, has the potential to be a world leader in both business and social impact. Amitabha Bandyopadhyay is a scientist trained at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York and Harvard Medical School, Boston. He established his independent research group in 2006 at the Biological Sciences and Bioengineering Department of IIT Kanpur. In 2012, Bandyopadhyay got involved with the institute’s Startup Incubation and Innovation Centre. In 2018, he became the first occupant of the
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Kent Chair for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Professor-in-charge of Innovation and Incubation at IIT Kanpur. Srikant Sastri is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur and IIM Calcutta, and wears many professional hats. He is Chairman, IIM Calcutta Innovation Park, and a board member at several other incubators. As an entrepreneurship evangelizer, he created the Chalo Startup web series and is on several government advisory bodies. As Chairman, I3G Advisory Network, he trains and advises corporations on accelerated business transformation.
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