Sanjay Shukla

Category Archives: Spirituality

Why the Word Spirituality Never Existed in India’s Dharma – A Memory from Varanasi

It was twenty-five years ago, in Varanasi. I had run away from Hyderabad, weighed down by debts, confusion and questions. A friend, worried that I might lose myself, took me to meet a sadhu. He said, half-joking and half-serious, “Maybe this man can make you see sense and send you back.” The meeting happened in […]

An Angel Who Walks Beside Me

It’s not rain this time. It’s something else, something quieter, yet more powerful, that changed me. You see, there are moments in life when a person walks in…not with fanfare, not with noise, but with the quiet strength of love and kindness. And suddenly, the broken pieces of your heart start finding their way back […]

Missing the Carefree 80s–90s: When Life Was Simple, Laughter Was Real, and Memories Weren’t Made on Screens

There was a time—not too long ago—when joy wasn’t downloaded, but discovered. When friends didn’t need Wi-Fi to connect, and “status” had nothing to do with blue ticks or filters. We’re talking about the 80s and 90s—those golden decades where life was delightfully analog, gloriously unpredictable, and beautifully imperfect. Back then, happiness had a different […]

What My Grandmother Revealed: The 10 Lies of the Brahma Kumaris — A True Story that Shook My Faith in What I Thought Was Spirituality

I never imagined that one afternoon in 2014 would unravel a mystery that had begun silently fourteen years earlier. Let me take you back. It was the year 2000. I was still young, brimming with curiosity, with just enough exposure to philosophy to ask annoying questions at family functions. But that year, my family wasn’t […]

THE UNVARNISHED TRUTH

They gunned him down in broad daylight—his life extinguished in seconds before his bride’s horrified eyes. His identity as a Dalit, Brahmin, Rajput, Jat, Gujjar or Kayastha? IRRELEVANT. Whether he spoke Marathi, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Gujarati, Bengali,  or Assamese? MEANINGLESS. If he voted for BJP’s Modi, Congress’s Rahul, AAP’s Kejriwal, or TMC’s Mamata? INSIGNIFICANT. In […]