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The Kama Sutra: The proper conduct of a wife
The more I read and reread Kama Sutra, the more confused and petrified I become. So many valuable inputs for women to conduct themselves properly and nothing beats Part IV of Kama Sutra. For as long as we women would not fail to improve ourselves according to teachings and corrections, and we would do rational things and behave according to men’s wishes, we will definitely be in harmony with men and with God. Part IV starts with household guidelines for virtuous wife who should act in [...]
Understanding cordon sanitaire
Very often we hear the word cordon sanitaire, and its meaning has always been looked upon with fright, anxiety and even panic. Let us see how the term has become mainly of historical interest - from the medical or health parlance, to diplomacy, political, administrative, and architecture. Cordon sanitaire is a French phrase that, literally translated, means “sanitary cordon”. In French it originally denoted a barrier designed and implemented to stop the spread of disease. [...]
THE KAMA SUTRA Part III: On the acquisition of a wife
By this time, C&K readers have at least heard of the most famous sex manual in the world. Analyzing Part II, lovers who suffer from medical complaints such as back pain and arthritis are warned not to attempt some of the KM’s true principles of preserving and balancing virtue, wealth and sensual gratification. As one doctor-reader states, “they predispose for rheumatic pains and sciatica”. Part III is a necessary part of the liberal education and culture of a man not only in [...]
Student journalists are gold miners
Straight news, feature stories – very young aspirant-campus journalists were critiqued, each warned that shedding a tear for a “killed” story is all right, however, it is a golden opportunity for the next improved story. Deprived of the weekend play, the group enjoyed the event that launched many of them into becoming campus writers. In an era where information is as valuable as gold, campus journalists can be seen as the miners. The average public pupil neither has the time nor the [...]
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana translated by Sir Richard F. Burton
MAN is divided into three classes: the hare man, the bull man, and the horse man, according to the size of his lingam. Woman also, according to the depth of her yoni, is either a female deer, a mare, or a female elephant. Some may ask: If men and women are beings of the same kind, and are engaged in bringing about the same results, why should they have different works to do? Because the ways of working as well as the consciousness of pleasure in men and women are different. The difference [...]
The Kama Sutra
The ancient Hindus believed in the wisdom of the dictum: If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. The relationship between the two sexes is something that cannot be ignored nor treated in a surreptitious or haphazard way, because it is the very essence of existence and the means by which life is perpetuated. The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana, is an essence of their vast studies on sex and love, and translated by Sir Richard F. Burton is the Hindu treatise on love and social conduct. [...]
The Kama Sutra
I was in New Delhi, India for a one year master’s degree in International Human Resource Planning and Development, a scholarship grant awarded through the auspices of the Indian Technical Economic Cooperation, along with twenty-two grantees from developing and commonwealth countries of Asia and Africa. In my solitary wanderings in Connaught Place, where almost all books and sundry are displayed for sale, a young Indian boy hollered: “Hello Auntie, only one copy of Kama Sutra here, [...]
Bethany Hospital Re-imagines
I am privy how the Bethany Hospital converted its Dietary Section into a ward to cater to non-communicable diseases, mostly dengue and viral diseases. Even then, the thirty-bed capacity ‘ward’ is packed with patients. Family caregivers come and go and the hospital has become an agora of all sorts of human ailments. Highly visible in the hospital is the beefing up of its security, not only to secure hospital requirements like management of its assets and resources, but also to [...]
Tips for Cartooning
It is campus journalism season once again and advisers are scampering for trainers who they believe can sustain the ‘positioning’ of their campus journalists. To calm down their nerves C&K doles out funny tips for writing cartoon captions. My clients like Dr. Flosa, Ms. Teston, Apostol and Mr. Dumas need not worry for the PF. PF is a sensitive issue, and applying the rule of ‘quantum meruit’ government rules and regulations prevails. However, PF comes in many forms like, the [...]
Pamper Papaya Myths
I had the singular opportunity of meeting one fine man who swapped myths of places, characters, events and even fruits were not spared. This fortunate man has been to places around the world, adventurous-rich and full of tales. As he leaves one place after another, he takes with him tales, anecdotes and myths of lands and its people. The very myths I can recollect is that of the papaya fruit. He says, the papaya is his favorite cargo and ferries them like vulnerable babies to feed the [...]
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