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Last official day at my first professional job :)
A new experience it was, altogether today. It will stay with me forever.Bidding adieu to my first job at MRO-TEK turned out to be harder than I had imagined it to be; I hadn’t imagined it to be hard at … Continue reading
Tagged farewell, nostalgia
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Making my moves, like i wanted to!
Taking decisions in life, now, when I am at the verge of an important decision feels like playing a tricky game of chess! I have thought deeply, evaluated the consequences, guaged the prospects and hoped for the optimum, and it … Continue reading
Tagged abstract, change, introspection
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How far can one go riding on rationality?
Encountering rationales is getting tougher by the day in today’s technology driven world. As paradoxical it might seem, irrationality is getting ubiquitous in the 21st Century. In a world run on the principles of scientific inquisition and technological accomplishments, a … Continue reading
Tagged abstract, Philosophy, rationalism
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செந்தமிழ்நாடு மதுரை – Madurai !
Numerous ancient temples, variety of deliciously tasty food, detailed political gyaan at every corner of the road, meter-less auto-rickshaws, the more familiar heat of Tamil Nadu, and a lot more is what I have experienced in my first visit to … Continue reading
Tagged madurai, tradition, Travel
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The droppings of capitalism!
Capitalist modes of running a society and its criticism is a highly elaborate exercise, and to take up that task I am still inadequately equipped. I shall save it for the future, to make it more convincing. In this post, … Continue reading
Tagged capitalism, change, neoliberalism
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The booming spiritual bloom!
“Inner Engineering”, “Spiritual Software”, “Cosmic architecture”, and many more paradoxical terms have seen a sudden boom in the last decade. This is the new set of jargon presenting itself when the need has arrived. The blend of spirituality and technology … Continue reading
Tagged gullible, hypocrisy, Philosophy
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Discerning the materialist in me
Am I a materialist? Yes and No. Yes: In the context of non-idealism; in my manners of understanding everything around me. This tinge of materialism in me is what has enabled me to grow an outlook endorsing rationality and self … Continue reading
Inside WikiLeaks, and inside Inside WikiLeaks!
I am a self proclaimed admirer of Julian Assange [J] and more so of WikiLeaks[WL]. Let this trait of mine not induce an idea that this post of mine is in favor of J or WL, in manners more than … Continue reading
Self deception in the process of gross deception…
It’s quite amazing as to how we can make ourselves believe, almost in a manner of self-deception, by repeatedly emphasising on something fictitious to be factual, either about our own persona or of our perceptions. Being absolutely honest about oneself … Continue reading
Tagged abstract, introspection
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Asymmetric geniuses!
Thanks to one of my fellow rationales for discussing this observation with me, which I have only tried to substantiate in this post. It indeed is a very good observation that many of the ‘geniuses’ are in fact asymmetric. Asymmetric … Continue reading
Tagged genius, wikileaks
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Ideas are Immortal 