If reason isn't the primary anchor in extraordinary crises, then what drives decision making? Is there a spirituality led ethical foundation to reality that goes beyond decision makers' perceptions of dichotomies? We examine how ethics and spirituality are part of one holistic framework shaping the organizational decision making processes. This conceptual paper addresses: How can Yogic Yamas and Niyamas (disciplinary restraints and observances) as expressions of spirituality led ethics, enrich ethical decision making towards a trustful environment sustainably? Three philosophical texts for Astānga Yoga in Indian spiritual traditions were used through hermeneutics based qualitative-research methodology. Among the salient contributions, we explore the concepts of Āstikya (belief or trust in higher consciousness) and Īsvarapranidhāna (committing what one does to higher consciousness) for enriching the discourse on spirituality led ethical decision making. We propose an integrative approach to achieve coherent decisions by bringing a universal and contextual spiritual base for coping with crises.

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This paper explores Pān. inian Grammar (PG) as an information processing device in terms of 'how', 'how much' and 'where' languages encode information. PG is based on a morphologically rich language, Sanskrit. We apply PG on English and see how the Pān. inian perspective would deal with it from the information theoretical point of view and its effectiveness in machine translation. We analyze English phrases defining sup (nominal inflections) and tiṅ (finite verb inflections) and compare them with the notion of pada (an inflected word form) and samasta-pada (compound) in Sanskrit. Sanskrit encodes relations between nouns and adjectives and nouns in apposition through agreement between gender, number and case markers, whereas English encodes them through positions. As a result, constituents are formed. It appears that an English phrase contains more than one pada, hence, cannot be similar to a pada. However, we show the linguistic similarities between a pada, samasta-pada and 'phrase'.

News Headlines (NHs) are of the most creative uses of natural languages in a media text. An NH is the frontline of a news article. Specific characteristics make NHs standout: for instance, article omission, use of active verbs, dropping the copula to save space and to attract the reader’s attention to the most significant words, etc. Some research has been done on linguistic analysis of British English NH, Hindi-Urdu NHs, but hardly any work has been conducted on IndENH. This paper attempts to analyze Indian English newspaper headlines (IndENH), and aims to contribute to the accuracy of News Headline parsing. This study determines the linguistic features of the IndENH, to improve the quality of the parsed output of NHs. This paper covers sentence construction, tense, punctuation marks, metaphors, etc. for linguistic analysis.

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