I'm not a white-bearded philosopher but I have a philosophy. I'm sure you have one for yourself. So we are all philosophers in one way or the other. It's just that our philosophy may not be sound enough that it gets shot down a few rounds of logical reasoning. Then it would turn into beliefs. Anyway, you can't question my beliefs because they are mine and they need not be logical because they are beliefs. What I'm going to write today is all about my philosophy or belief or whatever you'd like to call it.
Do you know what gives you happiness? I hope you do. Otherwise, think about it today...
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 movement'. I used to like the idea of dedicating one's life for a noble cause like Indian freedom. I guess I had too much 'rush of blood' back...
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 critical thoughts.
Buddy: Did you see that news about that Indian techie in US who killed himself and his family...
5 Apr 09Society9 Comments | 1,051 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). All I do is just publish the zen stories because they are short, sweet and pack a punch.
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3 Apr 09Wisdom24 Comments | 1,002 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 your mind while these things were happening around you. But what's the point in writing an autobiography? You think about your life, you talk about...
