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The Government Job Obsession: A Paranoia, A Mirage Article Link
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15 Mar 2026 The Sunday Guardian Columns and Authored
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Ballots in a Burning World: What Elections Cannot Vote Away Article Link
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21 Dec 2026 The Pioneer Columns and Authored
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Why do nations go to war Article Link
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07 Mar 2026 The Pioneer Columns and Authored
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The Real War Nobody Wants To Fight Article Link
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22 Mar 2026 The Sunday Guardian Columns and Authored
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The Woman Neither Tradition Nor Rebellion Prepared For Article Link
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08 Mar 2026 The Sunday Guardian Columns and Authored
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The Climate Cost of the War Machine Article Link
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14 Mar 2026 The Pioneer Columns and Authored
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Why Scandals Shock Us, And Shouldn’t Article Link
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07 Feb 2026 The Pioneer Columns and Authored
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From caveman to Greenland: The hunger that never left Article Link
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25 Jan 2026 The Sunday Guardian Columns and Authored
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Rotating Revolutions: Iran on Maya’s Wheel Article Link
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31 Jan 2026 The Pioneer Columns and Authored
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Education: Expanding outer knowledge, awakening inner clarity Article Link
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01 Mar 2026 The Sunday Guardian Columns and Authored
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December 2026
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The Pioneer

Ballots in a Burning World: What Elections Cannot Vote Away 21 Dec 2026 [1] [2]
The Climate Cost of the War Machine 14 Mar 2026 [1] [2]
Why do nations go to war 07 Mar 2026 [1] [2]
The Enemy Falls Outside. The Enemy Rises Inside. 24 Feb 2026 [1] [2]
A Defective Species: Outrage Won’t Help, Acknowledgement Would 14 Feb 2026 [1] [2]
Why Scandals Shock Us, And Shouldn’t 07 Feb 2026 [1] [2]
Rotating Revolutions: Iran on Maya’s Wheel 31 Jan 2026 [1] [2]
Without Self-Enquiry, Rationalism Is Just Another Superstition 24 Jan 2026 [1] [2]
Does God Exist? The Ego’s Favourite Shield 17 Jan 2026 [1] [2]
Venezuela and Bangladesh: Two Theatres, Same Actor 10 Jan 2026 [1] [2]
New Year, or the Old Deceiving in a New Costume? 03 Jan 2026 [1] [2]
When Culture Masquerades as Wisdom 27 Dec 2025 [1] [2]
Shruti Philosophy: The Hinduism That Stands Forgotten 20 Dec 2025 [1] [2]
The Collective GDP: Ego Over Wisdom 13 Dec 2025 [1] [2]
Left & Right: Ideological Opposites, Psychological Twins 06 Dec 2025 [1] [2]
Yes, the planet is overpopulated! 29 Nov 2025 [1] [2]
An Advaitic Critique of Marxism 22 Nov 2025 [1] [2]
Before the Ice Melts, the Ego Must: The Real Crisis Behind COP30 15 Nov 2025 [1] [2]
From Dharma to Dogma: The Genesis of Caste 08 Nov 2025 [1] [2]
Forgotten Pandemic: The Lessons We Refused to Learn 01 Nov 2025 [1] [2]
Bihar Elections 2025: The Vote That Must Awaken the Voter 25 Oct 2025 [1] [2]
Libertarianism, Liberalism, and Conservatism: Ego as Ideology 20 Oct 2025 [1] [2]
Ladakh: A mirror cracking under climate change 11 Oct 2025 [1] [2]
Borrowed Respect, Fragile Nationalism 04 Oct 2025 [1] [2]
The Forgotten Navratri: Devi as Nature, Demon as Destruction 30 Sep 2025 [1] [2]
Before outer revolutions, we first need an inner one. 13 Sep 2025 [1] [2]
Book Launch of Acharya Prashant's New Book, Truth Without Apology, at India International Center, New Delhi—covered by The Pioneer. 09 Sep 2025 [1] [2]
North India's Floods: Not Seasonal Wrath, but Climate Collapse 06 Sep 2025 [1] [2]
Homes as Graves: Why Outrage Never Ends Violence 30 Aug 2025 [1] [2]
Greenwashing: Pretending to Care While Burning the Planet 06 Aug 2025 [1] [2]
India Pays as the West Neglects: The Price of Global Warming 25 Jul 2025 [1] [2]
Rethinking What It Means to Be Truly Clean 21 Jul 2025 [1] [2]
Climate Crisis: A Mirror to Our Inner State 15 Jul 2025 [1] [2]
The Climate Crisis Within: Rethinking Global Warming 11 Jul 2025 [1] [2]
March 2026
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The Sunday Guardian

The Real War Nobody Wants To Fight 22 Mar 2026 [1] [2]
The Government Job Obsession: A Paranoia, A Mirage 15 Mar 2026 [1] [2]
The Woman Neither Tradition Nor Rebellion Prepared For 08 Mar 2026 [1] [2]
Education: Expanding outer knowledge, awakening inner clarity 01 Mar 2026 [1] [2]
The Borrowed Dog and the Unborrowed Question 22 Feb 2026 [1] [2]
Why Every Caste Debate Misses the Real Question 14 Feb 2026 [1] [2]
Geopolitics: The Ego’s Grand Theatre 08 Feb 2026 [1] [2]
From Telescope to Horoscope: When Belief Replaced Inquiry 01 Feb 2026 [1] [2]
From caveman to Greenland: The hunger that never left 25 Jan 2026 [1] [2]
AI Is Not the Problem: We Were Already a Machine 18 Jan 2026 [1] [2]
Unconscious Democracy: Why Order Eludes India While China Surges 04 Jan 2026 [1] [2]
The Aravalli Situation: When the Hills Become Negotiable 28 Dec 2025 [1] [2]
Meditation Beyond Methods: The Meditator Is the Obstruction 21 Dec 2025 [1] [2]
Inner Poverty: Consumption as Hollow Consolation 14 Dec 2025 [1] [2]
The Infantilisation of Adults: Why Maturity Is Vanishing Worldwide 07 Dec 2025 [1] [2]
One Greed Six Earths: The Inner Emptiness Behind Global Consumption 30 Nov 2025 [1] [2]
Beyond passion and pressure: Career as clarity 23 Nov 2025 [1] [2]
Weekdays of Bondage, Weekends of Escape 16 Nov 2025 [1] [2]
Delicate to Dauntless: The Myth of Female Fragility 09 Nov 2025 [1] [2]
Technology: A Magnificent Servant, a Dangerous Master 02 Nov 2025 [1] [2]
Diwali: The Light that Must be Lit Within 19 Oct 2025 [1] [2]
Ladakh: A Climate Warning from the Roof of the World 12 Oct 2025 [1] [2]
When Ritual Masquerades as Religion 05 Oct 2025 [1] [2]
Navratri and Saptashati show liberation through embracing life 28 Sep 2025 [1] [2]
The False Promise of Endless Economic Growth 21 Sep 2025 [1] [2]
Cost of looking away: How denial fuels the climate crisis 14 Sep 2025 [1] [2]
Teachers’ Day reminds us what it really means to teach 07 Sep 2025 [1] [2]
Greenwashing the Climate: Our Favourite Self-Deception 31 Aug 2025 [1] [2]
Desire and Duty: A False Divide 24 Aug 2025 [1] [2]
Real Independence Demands Gita's Clarity 17 Aug 2025 [1] [2]
When Merit is Dethroned, a Nation Withers 10 Aug 2025 [1] [2]
Holy Lies: Man's Religion, Woman's Bondage 03 Aug 2025 [1] [2]
The Gita’s Revolt Against Ritualism 27 Jul 2025 [1] [2]
When Protection Becomes Possession: True Rebellion Begins Where Roles End 20 Jul 2025 [1] [2]
Does Mankind Deserve Religion? 13 Jul 2025 [1] [2]
Does the Gita Justify Caste? Unravelling the Misinterpretation 06 Jul 2025 [1] [2]
From Belief to Bloodshed: When Identity Masquerades as Religion 29 Jun 2025 [1] [2]
Before it’s too late: Living in an age of trivialized tragedy 22 Jun 2025 [1] [2]
Violent Relationships: A New Trend, or an Enduring Structure? 15 Jun 2025 [1]
Sant Kabir: flame that scorched falsehood 08 Jun 2025 [1]
World Environment Day: The climate crisis and the need for inner awakening 01 Jun 2025 [1]
Operation 2030: Confronting the climate crisis within 25 May 2025 [1]
War and woman: A mirror to mankind’s inner jungle 18 May 2025 [1]
Defeating the monster without becoming a monster. 11 May 2025 [1]
Responding to terror with wisdom: The Bhagavad Gita’s timeless message. 04 May 2025 [1]
Freedom within: Reclaiming expression through inner clarity. 27 Apr 2025 [1]
The climate crisis begins within: Lessons from Kancha Gachibowli. 20 Apr 2025 [1]
Cleanliness in 21st century Can Have Only Measure: Carbon. 13 Apr 2025 [1]
Self, Society, and the State: Vedanta’s Voice in Indian Democracy 06 Apr 2025 [1]
Self, Society, and the State: Vedanta’s Voice in Indian Democracy. 05 Apr 2025 [1]
Climate Change and Feedback Loops: Have We Reached the Point of No Return? 30 Mar 2025 [1]
Linguistic Harmony and Identity: Rethinking India's Language Dynamics. 23 Mar 2025 [1]
The journey to purpose: Navigating career and calling. 16 Mar 2025 [1]
Redefining Representation: The case for a fairer delimitation in India. 09 Mar 2025 [1]
Women’s Day: A Call for True Liberation. 02 Mar 2025 [1]
Rejecting illusions: The true meaning of Shiv and Mahashivratri. 23 Feb 2025 [1]
Redefining Work: The Debate on Working Hours. 16 Feb 2025 [1]
How India Pays the Price for America's Climate Negligence. 09 Feb 2025 [1]
Gandhi: An Earthly Journey, Not a Divine Destination. 02 Feb 2025 [1]
Republic Day Special: India Understood is India Loved. 26 Jan 2025 [1]
Breaking through the cycle of exploitation in relationships. 21 Jan 2025 [1]
Contemporising Kumbh: Ancient wisdom, modern relevance. 19 Jan 2025 [1]
Kumbh in the light of Vedanta: Truth beyond tradition. 19 Jan 2025 [1]
Swami Vivekananda: Struggle, Resilience, and Legacy. 12 Jan 2025 [1]
Loneliness: The 21st Century Pandemic 05 Jan 2025 [1]
2025: External challenges, Internal Solutions. 29 Dec 2024 [1]
Welcoming Life, Without Conditions ( Covered by: The Sunday Guardian ). 15 Dec 2024 [1]
Life without fear, and relationships without lies. 08 Dec 2024 [1]
Beyond the Separate Self: Transcending the Illusion of Separation. 01 Dec 2024 [1]
Reclaiming Authenticity in a World of Impressions – Acharya Prashant in The Sunday Guardian. 24 Nov 2024 [1]
January 2026
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Deccan Herald

Psychology & spiritual philosophy 09 Jan 2026 [1] [2]
When Clarity Ends Confusion 02 Dec 2025 [1] [2]
Why Self-Help doesn't help 27 Oct 2025 [1] [2]
Why do We Keep Hurting Ourselves? 11 Aug 2025 [1] [2]
October 2025
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NDTV

True Freedom of Expression Is Inner Liberation 17 Oct 2025 [1] [2]
Beyond the Mat: Yoga, the return to the center 08 Oct 2025 [1] [2]
Respect Without Roots, Pride Without Substance 03 Oct 2025 [1] [2]
The Mirage of Revolutions: Why Uprisings Fail Without Inner Freedom 20 Sep 2025 [1] [2]
North India Underwater: Not Nature's Fury, But Human Folly 10 Sep 2025 [1] [2]
The Crisis Within: When Clarity is Replaced by Content 28 Jun 2025 [1] [2]
Opinion | War and Woman: A Reflection of Mankind 06 Jun 2025 [1] [2]
Operation 2030: Confronting The Climate Crisis Through Inner Clarity 05 Jun 2025 [1] [2]
Defeating enemies: The right war, the final victory 14 May 2025 [1] [2]
Democracy at a Crossroads: Rethinking Delimitation in India. 10 May 2025 [1] [2]
Rethinking Linguistic Harmony and Identity through Indias Language Dynamics 09 May 2025 [1] [2]
Opinion | Climate Crisis and The Threat of Irreversible Change - NDTV 06 May 2025 [1] [2]
August 2025
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Lokmat

लोकमत न्यूज़ – "स्वतंत्रता दिवस: वास्तविक स्वतंत्रता क्या है? 14 Aug 2025 [1] [2]
रक्षा बंधन पर आचार्य प्रशांत का संदेश लोकमत न्यूज़ पर 08 Aug 2025 [1] [2]
गुरु पूर्णिमा पर आचार्य प्रशांत का संदेश लोकमत न्यूज़ पर 10 Jul 2025 [1] [2]
April 2024
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The New Indian Express

Redefining Feminism 26 Apr 2024 [1] [2]
New Indian Express – Beating The Clock Starts With You 14 Apr 2024 [1]
The working professional code 23 Jul 2023 [1] [2]
Answering Fear with Faith 26 Mar 2023 [1] [2]
The myth of enlightenment 04 Sep 2022 [1] [2]
Karma or coincidence? 19 Dec 2021 [1] [2]
New Indian Express – How Motivation Is Slavery Why Youthful Action Does Not Come From Motivation 22 Jun 2021 [1]
How motivation is slavery: Why youthful action does not come from motivation 20 Jun 2021 [1] [2]
Acharya Prashant’s Karma: Why Everything You Know About It Is Wrong is life-changing 11 May 2021 [1] [2]
Turn coronavirus lockdown days into a blessing 17 May 2020 [1] [2]
Ramifications of retribution 15 Mar 2020 [1] [2]
New Indian Express – Ramifications Of Retribution 15 Mar 2020 [1]
The indispensable spiritual intimacy 23 Feb 2020 [1] [2]
New Indian Express – The Indispensable Spiritual Intimacy 22 Feb 2020 [1]
Not ripe enough? Keep hanging there 19 Jan 2020 [1] [2]
New Indian Express – Not Ripe Enough Keep Hanging There 18 Jan 2020 [1]
Spirituality is not an isolated activity 18 Dec 2019 [1] [2]
New Indian Express – Spirituality Not An Isolated Activity 16 Dec 2019 [1]
Acharya Prashant’s article 'Soul Journey: From an IIT to the Ashram' published in The New Indian Express 08 Jul 2019 [1]
Soul Journey: From an IIT to the Ashram 08 Jul 2019 [1] [2]
June 2020
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Dainik Jagran

Not allowing the soul to manifest is suicide: Acharya Prashant 10 Jun 2020 [1] [2]
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Zee News

You were living a very wrong life, now life is telling you 09 Jun 2020 [1] [2]