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Author Archives: Raghav/Raghu
Not just another brick in the wall!
I must finally, and gladly admit that the last one month of my life has been the most satiating in terms of the quality conversion that has been in progress, of time into tangible efforts. Not teaching, but facilitating, and … Continue reading
Tagged abilities, abstract
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My humble wishlist
You might want to brand me a knurd, geek, or any other stereotype, into which I might be far from being congruent.Nonetheless, as I lay on my bed thinking, or maybe just when I was at the rim of my … Continue reading
The eternal fountainhead
Well, if you are expecting Ayn Rand and the selective endorsement of her individualism on my part in this post, after having read the title, let me warn you that it is not going to be about it. A personal, … Continue reading
Confessions of an Economic Hitman
Reading this autobiographical, tell-all book by John Perkins seemed surreal.I am not someone who is very naive about manipulations; I would at least be able to discern between genuine attempts of foreign support, with those of attempts towards hegemonic domination, … Continue reading
Tagged book review, corruption, society, world
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Less personal,More social
A personal observation about the contents I’m discoursing on my personal blog: It certainly is getting unbalanced. Unbalanced in terms of the contexts of the content being discoursed. My initial posts, if some of you have read/ been reading, would … Continue reading
Tagged abstract, introspection
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Life and works of Acharya PC Ray
Talk by Prof.S Chatterjee Science can afford to wait but Swaraj cannot … P C Ray The prolonged Indian Freedom struggle, and its chronicling in retrospect seem to focus only on the efforts by a select few national heroes. Whereas … Continue reading
The God Delusion
How lucky we are to be alive, given that the vast majority of people who could potentially be thrown up by the combinatorial lottery of DNA will in fact never be born. However brief our time in the sun, if … Continue reading
Tagged atheism, book review, dawkins, god, Philosophy
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Totem revolutions
The exaggerated rumours during the Egyptian revolution, that the revolution itself was a ramification of the existence of social networks like Facebook and Twitter is preposterous, and indicates the myopic understanding of such analysts.While Facebook and Twitter did influence the … Continue reading
Tagged change, internet, revolution
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Understanding the Information Economy: ITEC Seminar
ITEC has been around for sometime now and has been taking up some important tasks pertaining to the ‘elusive’ IT industry. Attempts at increasing the awareness about the pitfalls in the industry using instances to be concerned about, like fraudulent … Continue reading
Tagged event, itec
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Secluded in the cities
Over a casual chat, a friend discussed an observation to me, which was rather very interesting, and worth pondering further, beyond the discussion. According to him,in the daily urban chaos, the aspect of socializing (in the real terms), which is … Continue reading
Tagged abstract, society, unsocial
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Ideas are Immortal 