By Rahul Das Putham I absolutely love hitchhiking. Back while I was in college, vices that kept me up late into the night ensured that I would routinely wake up …

Among the spiritual and philosophic systems and traditions of the world, there are six Greek and Indian systems that share a common basic worldview and goal and means thereto. These are Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Orphism, Pythagoreanism, and Platonism. All these take as their basis and accept the fact of the repeated cycle of birth and death, of reincarnation, of becoming (Sanskrit: samsara, Greek: genesis).Among the spiritual and philosophic systems and traditions of the world, there are six Greek and Indian systems that share a common basic worldview and goal and means thereto. These are Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Orphism, Pythagoreanism, and Platonism. All these take as their basis and accept the fact of the repeated cycle of birth and death, of reincarnation, of becoming (Sanskrit: samsara, Greek: genesis).

As historians prepare to add new chapters in history textbooks across the world, different countries will end up on different points on the spectrum – from bad to worse – …