Awakin Calls

In January 2000, a government project took Satyan Mishra, then running a computer business in Bhopal, to a village in Madhya Pradesh. It "felt like homecoming." Twenty-five years on, Drishtee, the rural enterprise network he co-founded, has supported...

Can care be trained? Tania Singer has spent more than thirty years putting that question to brain scanners, and her answer is yes. Empathy is what we ask of nurses, teachers and carers of every kind. It is also, she found, what can wear them out if e...

"This was the first thing I had done without an economic motive," says Xavier Ginesta, a successful Barcelona tech entrepreneur, recalling the not-for-profit festival of consciousness he launched in 2022. But it ended up costing five times more th...

Janice Sullivan, Ph.D., is an educator, researcher, author, transformational coach, and founder of Yogabrella whose life and work explore what she calls The Language of the Heart, the profound ways we connect through presence, intuition, silence, and...

The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. -- E.O. Wilson Born in Sri Lanka to a father who taught him to program and a mother who taught him Buddhism, Randima Fernand...

In 2014, Amardeep Singh, a Singapore-based financial executive, stood underneath a bridge in Muzaffarabad, a city cradled by the lower Himalayas in the disputed region of Kashmir, in the Indian subcontinent. His forefathers had lived there until a tr...

The yoga class for new mothers had dissolved into full cacophony -- every baby crying at once, every mother off her mat, nursing, bouncing. Then: "All mamas, Tree Pose." Put the babies on the mat. Go still. How cold, she thought. How insensitive. B...

"In my youth, I was a rebel who challenged the status quo and wrote three volumes of poetry dedicated to love and humanity. I have always been a seeker for meaning and purpose. Yet, somewhere between Saigon and Wall Street, the poet within me went in...

When he was a boy in Kampala, his mother had a saying: "If you have nothing to say, keep quiet. If you have nothing to do, go to sleep." On the long, hot afternoons when she sent him to nap, the restless child could not sleep — so he lay awake ...

"Everyone is an invited guest of the universe," Lobsang Phuntsok tells the 125 children of his community in the Himalayas every day. He means it — because he spent most of his childhood being told the opposite. Born in secret in 1971 in Arunach...