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Whether Weather rescued me?
Okay, no high hopes about this post. It ain’t a log of an action filled rescue operation, or anything stereotype that has been coming out of me off late 😛 For a couple of days, for some reasons inexplicable even … Continue reading
Tagged abstract, bangalore, nature
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Bouncing off the opinion!
Have you ever been in a situation when things that are logically apparent to you is perceived by your counterparts in an almost alien manner?I find myself in that state almost on a daily basis 😀They seem to be fixed … Continue reading
Tagged obstinacy, opinions, prejudice
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Back, looking at myself.
After quite a while, I’m trying a stint of introspective post on my blog. The circumstances I am conditioning myself to, out of conscious choice are of different kind in nature. It is a drift from surrealism to realism. It … Continue reading
Tagged introspection
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Corruption: The Opium of today’s masses
It has been overwhelming for the past four days here in India, with the Anti Corruption anguish of the people taking shape in the form of a nation wide Gandhian style hunger strike, protests,extensive discussions and substantial involvement of ‘the … Continue reading
Tagged anna-hazare, corruption, lokpal
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Eulogy to the resurgence of cricket
When there’s so much happening around for the last one day in India, and all of it being about cricket, the portion of a cricketer and a Cricket fan embedded in most Indians does seek some means of expression. For … Continue reading
Science: A religion for Life
“When I call myself an atheist, it is not that I do not have a God to believe in, or a religion to piously follow:Nature is my God,Science is my religion….” While clarifying my stand on religion and God to … Continue reading
Tagged Philosophy, religion
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Stop Farmer Suicides: Candle Light Vigil as a reaction
Urbanites are individualists, who are complacent with their lives, engrossed in its sophistication. The widely accepted fact that they don’t and wouldn’t bother about the other sections of the society is almost true. But, when there is at least one … Continue reading
Why I am an Atheist by Shaheed Bhagat Singh
Shaheed Bhagat Singh: Inquilab Zindabad (Long live the Revolution) Excerpts from one of the best articles ever written: “We (atheists) believe in nature and that human progress depends on the domination of man over nature. There is no conscious power … Continue reading
Can we go on to eat the hands that feed us!
Eating the hands that feed us!What a profound statement. It was made by one of my fellow activists, during the discussions about the issue of relentless farmer suicides in India. The issue about lakhs of farmers committing suicide in India … Continue reading
Tagged apathy, disparity, farmer suicides
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The Free Culture imperative
Excellent painting depicting One World, by Joe Average Being part of a movement which in the grand picture aspires towards freedom of knowledge in the digital domain, and a future with access to free knowledge to all of humanity is … Continue reading
Tagged free culture, openness, society
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Ideas are Immortal 