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I begin to write this post without any agenda to discuss- maybe that is the agenda, to not have one. As I write now, on this lazy afternoon with mountainous tasks ahead for rest of the day, I am only … Continue reading →

1984, and now Blindness – two books that are menacingly disturbing, yet hard to deny for they speak of a reality which is not far from being plausible. Blindness by Jose Saramago is one of the most powerful books I … Continue reading →

If you thought that the grand questions of life “Who am I”, “What am I doing here”, etc haunt us when at the verge of growing senile or crazy, not quite – I have encountered these many a times and … Continue reading →

There can be no obedience between like minds, only compliance. Likewise, to want to be obedient reflects a tendency of the mind to stray towards dependence – an unwillingness to get independent – stand by itself. Before I lead you … Continue reading →

It has been over an year that I got back to the academic arena. Personally it has been gratification to the fullest, but on the other hand have got acquainted with the many grave flaws/ The acceptance of ‘imparting education’ … Continue reading →

Sympathy and charity have their own pitfalls. When I am sympathetic towards a person, who is in dire need of one of the fundamentals for a decent living, the ability to act a good Samaritan by performing an act of … Continue reading →

The whole blissful aspect of we humans is that we are adaptive – more adaptive than the most sophisticated of computers. If one stagnates on this distinction for sometime, the consequences are waiting to get dire. The analogy of convection … Continue reading →

Working in a team is not something that I naturally am good at – and there are multiple reasons for it. I am a megalomaniac and I believe (yes, even now) that a task that I can do cannot be … Continue reading →

Craving for satisfaction is simply one of the natural pursuits of us humans, and through ages what we have in our social evolution have developed are different channels to accomplish the ever enticing sense of complete gratification. Religion, art, literature, … Continue reading →

In reading the book “Fear and Forgiveness” by Harsh Mander which talks of the aftermath of the Gujarat 2002 pogrom against the Muslim community, a larger concern seems to be swelling in me. Why is it that a mob has … Continue reading →