With Christmas approaching I see more and more billboards advertising food to share with friends over the festivities. Most of them depict a turkey or a joint of some kind surrounded by festive colours and heart warming scenes. Amongst the many thoughts about the commercialisation of this Christian festival and the modern take on what it means in an age where abundance of food is slowly eroding our health, I find myself reflecting on the amount of meat we consume every day an

Welcome to October ! It’s nearly Halloween a time of year where we happily let fake spiders and fluorescent bugs invade our homes ! But what happens when real bugs decide to join in your practice ? You may be familiar with the moral principle of Ahimsa as embodied by Mahatma Gandhi in his fight for freedom, it is the principle of non-harming (yourself and others). How do we practice Ahimsa in a modern life so far detached from nature ? The answer is in the question, we keep p