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Why our education system has already failed
With the youngest population in the world, and in newsreels when our leaders do acknowledge that our young population is the natural resource India should be banking upon, the degradation of the quality of education in India, at all strata, … Continue reading
Strikes don’t strike because of you
What do you do when you have people who don’t stand up for others’ rights? One could brand them as individualists, hurl a few abuses and leave them be at peace. What do you do when you have people who … Continue reading
The idea of dirt
“Dirt is a thing people make too much fuss about”, writes George Orwell in his book Homage to Catalonia. He says this in the context of war, and moves on, while I immediately am thinking of the profoundity of that … Continue reading
Reading Carl Sagan’s Contact
Reading Carl Sagan’s science fiction work Contact, put me back into the mode of insatiable awe for the Universe, that seemed to have gotten sedentary under the burden of conventional observations and the so called daily wisdom, for a while … Continue reading
FSMK Winter Camp, and woah!
Five days, two hundred people, tens of technologies, hundreds of ideas, hours of interaction and abundance of fun, with unimaginable amount of work – all of these coalesced into one of the most memorable experiences ever. This is what FSMK’s … Continue reading
Life is, but the chronicle of struggles
One of those rare evenings, when I have the evening to myself and I decide to use it to complete an impending task. Dust off my cycle, hop on and alternately glide and peddle for the next five kilometers,meet a … Continue reading
Drowning in AR’s Kadal
And, after couple of years and few albums A R Rahman is back doing what he does best – create some of the best music, that is going to stick with you for life. Kadal is a masterpiece by the … Continue reading
My beautiful irony!
A mind that unravels mysteries of life and Physics, but in detail misses my verbal gimmicks and tricks. A structure that in general might be termed small, but has for sure gotten me eclipsed although I’m considerably tall; Compassion that … Continue reading
The paradox of creation
Sometimes, when I feel dumb about not having created anything substantial, as yet, that the world would stand up and recognise, the witty mind of mine gives excuses that seem to convince me, at least prevents me from going into … Continue reading
Nothing, but that
Not the words that I’ve spoken, or the promises I’ve made and broken, Not the lies that I’ve made up, or the tricks that I’ve played up, Not the chances that I’ve let go, or the joys that I forgo, … Continue reading
Ideas are Immortal 