The Indian independence movement has always fascinated me. I was probably 10 years when I first saw the movie 'Gandhi'. I've seen it many times since then. As a young boy, I never missed a chance to read, see or talk anything about Indian independence movement. As a kid you'd love heroes and the Indian freedom struggle produced so many of them. I used to think 'if I had lived in the 1930's or 40's I'd have surely participated in the independence...
So many suicides. We all just read about a horrific suicide a week back. There are suicides because of ragging, financial troubles, job losses, failed romances, exam results, you name it. This post is not about why suicides happen or why they should not happen or how to prevent them. This post is about suicides but from a different angle. It's certainly not the social angle, you can possibly call it the legal angle. Go on. Come up with your...
5 Apr 09Society9 Comments | 458 views
Here I go again. Another zen blog today. Why do I publish zen stories here? When I read some of these zen stories, what I want to do is to broadcast this story to every single person I know. In fact, I want to tell these stories to everyone personally so we can then have that little interesting discussion what these mean to each of us. By the way, in case you're in doubt, this is a 'secular' blog (we're all secular because elections are around)...
3 Apr 09Wisdom24 Comments | 395 views
Ever thought of writing an autobiography? I thought about this only today. I'm sure one does not have to be a celebrity to write one. Who's going to read that then, you might ask. I'd say, yourself and if you allow, a few more people. I'm almost convinced that all lives are equally very interesting and very random that they all qualify for nice autobiographies. Because it's not just about what happened in your life but also what went through in...
When I went abroad for the first time, I just could not sleep on the very first night. I was wondering why I couldn't sleep. It was a very spacious room for one person. It had everything you'd ask for. It had air conditioners, state of the art television, dvd players, refrigerators etc. It had everything, but one. A fan. A ceiling fan. That's when I realised that I can't sleep without a ceiling fan. I've got used to the rhythmic sound of the...
I was poor at science subjects. I still am. Be it physics, chemistry or biology. I was very poor. I never understood any of those theorems and formulae. Even some of the very basic things are still a problem for me. Only physics was slightly better because I found it a bit interesting and practical. Overall, science subjects were very alien to me. As far as I was concerned, "if it moves it's biology, if it stinks it's chemistry and if it doesn't...
You might have thought about this many times. I have. I'm strong believer that life exists outside of Earth too. It may even be various forms of life and in various planets and stars. We know 'nothing to little' to even state that no life exists outside earth. When I say 'we', I don't refer to you and me alone, I refer to all the scientists as well. Well, this post is not to prove that there is life outside earth. I can't do that as well with my...
26 Mar 09Wisdom8 Comments | 8,836 views
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