Sonika Lunkar

Thorns are attached to a rose bush. A banana is covered with its peel. Coconut water is healthy, but it sits at the top of a tall tree — and even then, it is hard to open and get to. Honey is packed with great security by the honeybees. Diamonds and pearls lie deep in oceans and mountains. A bird lays its eggs on a windy tree. A boat sails on a wavering sea. Nature — and the human, as part of nature — goes through turmoil, both natural and man-made. There is no escape from these realities of...

A baby cries and we hand down building blocks — some puzzle-building toys, some creative art pieces, jumbled together. With those blocks, kids develop buildings, objects, and beautiful scenes. These are game-based constructive and creative works. Life, too, takes varied moves each single day. Good food, leisure, site visits, and similar elements give spiritual moves to life. Life's vitality shifts from an ordinary, general level towards a little higher one. The visibility of hope,...

Builder Levy’s photo of marchers in Memphis in 1968. Credit High Museum of Art Non-violence is fundamentally admitted as non-harm. Harm can be inflicted by one being on others or on one self through act, words or thought. In our everyday life we essentially attribute physical harm with violence. From domestic to terrorists’ violence. In one of the Freud-Einstein correspondence, it was asked, why war? Is there anything in human reality which tempts them to undertake war. Freud replies,...