‘God is a great concept man has found to cope with life’

Sunday 22 November '09

Muzaffar Ali is a film-maker, painter and poet

‘Praying is like coming home’

Sunday 15 November '09

MEIRA KUMAR is the Lok Sabha Speaker

‘Happiness is never constant’

Sunday 8 November '09

Kabir Bedi is an actor who has worked in Bollywood, Hollywood and European television.

‘People ask me what my career is. I say it is to awaken’

Sunday 1 November '09

Shantum Seth is a Zen Buddhist teacher

‘Our planet has a survival instinct like all other organisms’

Sunday 25 October '09

Mike Pandey is a celebrated wildlife film-maker and conservationist

‘On top of the world, it’s not as great as you’d think’

Sunday 18 October '09

Major H.P.S. Ahluwalia has climbed Mount Everest. He was injured in the 1965 Indo-Pak

‘To improve and clean yourself, that is the journey’

Sunday 11 October '09

Narendra Kohli is a noted Hindi novelist, short story writer, playwright and satirist.

‘If there is a challenge, there is an opportunity’

Sunday 4 October '09

M S Swaminathan is an agriculture scientist, popularly known as the Father of the Green Revolution

‘The biggest sin is to think the way we were always taught’

Sunday 27 September '09

Madhu Trehan is an author and former journalist

‘You have to invest a lot of effort and time in the things that you love’

Sunday 20 September '09

Sunit Tandon is the head of Lok Sabha TV, a theatre actor and a former Doordarshan anchor

‘The universe gives me energy’

Sunday 13 September '09

Subhash Ghai is a film director and producer

‘We forget we have a divine force within us’

Sunday 6 September '09

Ambika Soni is minister in charge of information and broadcasting

‘I’m learning things I can use in the next birth’

Sunday 30 August '09

Aruna Sairam is a Carnatic classical vocalist. She was awarded the Padma Shri by the government of India this year.

‘Staying in the present is happiness’

Sunday 23 August '09

Arvind Kejriwal is a social activist and founder of Parivartan, a citizens’ movement.

‘I look at the sun as my idol’

Sunday 16 August '09

Ramoji Rao, is founder and head of the Ramoji Group, owner of ETV, Eenadu and Ramoji Film City

‘You need fear to keep you under control’

Sunday 9 August '09

Jitin Prasada, Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas

‘I have died once, so I’m not afraid’

Sunday 2 August '09

Anjolie Ela Menon is one of India’s leading contemporary artists

‘My meditation lies in planting trees’

Sunday 26 July '09

Maneka Gandhi is a politician, animal rights activist and environmentalist

‘God should do his job better’

Sunday 19 July '09

Aman Nath - author, art restorer and founder of the Neemrana chain of hotel

‘You can be happy or unhappy for nothing’

Sunday 12 July '09

Dr B. K. Rao, Chairman, Board of Management, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital

‘Every political life ends in failure’

Sunday 5 July '09

Mani Shankar Aiyer is a senior Congress leader

‘Fate is in your wrist and not in your hand’

Sunday 28 June '09

Aruna Sharma is director-general of Doordarshan

‘I see life as a carpet being woven’

Sunday 21 June '09

Laila Tyabji is the founder and Chair of Dastkar, a society aiming at improving the economic status of craftspeople, thereby promoting the survival of traditional crafts.

‘If you seek happiness, you will be unhappy’

Sunday 14 June '09

Yashwant Sinha is a senior BJP leader and a former finance minister and external affairs minister

‘In that one pill, I find a lot of spirituality’

Sunday 7 June '09

Dr Swati A. Piramal is director of Piramal Healthcare and as President of ASSOCHAM, she is the first woman to ever head an Indian industry chamber.