That is the problem with having a sense of humor that makes you smile when somebody close to you passes away. Problem with sense of sense of humor is that we cannot be as clear as one is allowed to be in the movies, where it is easier to portray things. Things get more difficult [...]
There have been times when I have lionized music artists that I heard of, I revered their music as sacred passages from some holy scriptures, which were to be adhered, if not followed. Now music (both playing and listening) has taken a back seat, the sounds in the life keep ebbing away the “real music” [...]
The kind of I was and I am, I always take risks, I am always enamored by the unknown (I guess we all are). When the leaves are on ground, and the sky is blue, I always wondered what it would be like in Cali—in contrast to the Indian subterranean lands where I’ve been raised—sp [...]
back….. I arrived early, before I was supposed to, but I had to arrive, not because I had to arrive, I had to arrive because I just had to, because sometime back, before it all happened, before time turned. The wheels still existed back then, but the times were different.
California west coast kind of makes [...]
I am not trying to retrofit few pieces that I found on the way, but I just happened to know that I am never able to retain “friends”; it always has been like that. I must admit, that it never occurred naturally to me, like it happens to others, I was arguing about the importance [...]
I read that it all started when “man” felt the need to exchange goods—really, now you want me to buy that Bengalis don’t eat fish, or that fishes don’t eat fish?
Shopping –etymology… akin ‘not similar to reading’ A.K.A ‘making women happy’. As if ‘ing’ is another language combined, just to say the same thing with [...]
The chocolate levels in my body are soaring right now, enough to make somebody a chocolate undead revenant if I was a Vampire. I smiled to everybody as usual at work and even got chocolates for everybody around me (I think I did it so that nobody touches mine). I was my usual social self; [...]
How much can we share? I guess people are reading lot of Gita these days, and practicing the wisdom of “words are like arrows, and you must dip them into alcohol before mounting them on to the bow”. Most of it has to do with thinking that we will be advantaged-off in some sense, or [...]
Prior to this life I used to live somewhere in Netherlands, don’t remember it not because of bad memory, but because nomenclature isn’t primeval, it is only now that Google Maps exists to quickly disillusion us on Washington and Washington DC. Back in those times, I used to breath light, people used to believe that [...]
So if some Alpha gives you 80% chance of living the rest of your life in a state of your current happiness multiplied by 10^10. But, says there is a 20% chance that you will die right now if you happen to fail the 80% chance, which is decided by a totally fair random experiment.
Then [...]
It happens way too often that I don’t understand what I am doing. I look around, and then, again, I look again, and then I just look on. There is no problem with it really, as rationalists, we should get confused with fiction more than reality, but I have to switch back too often, which [...]
Yesterday evening, it was a regular morning– I mean evening was evening, but I am just clarifying that it was a fine and regular morning and a very good night before that. It is not really end of the universe kind of breaking news, I know, but I just told you so, so what? Ok, [...]
I have been dreaming a lot lately, I mean really dreaming. Now I don’t keep a pen a notebook ready besides my bed to record what I dreamt last, but I do try to remember hard about the dream after I wake up. Being stung by rationality bee, trying to wake up in to a [...]
“Everything is so commercial”, “there’s no value for emotions”, “the superior in the companies are so dumb”, “I don’t know why it always happens to me”, “Why can’t people understand a simple thing” and it goes on…
Solution? Simple, just do something, just pick up a book, a racket, and a habit, just get a life. [...]
There is no justice in this world, rightly said. All these times, I crib about how scientists and insane people like me who can change the world, are not getting their due attention.
So I am correcting this for my darling—my laptop. I am not with a woman right now, so I call it darling right [...]
I still recall that morning, I think it was Assam (Northeastern state of India); I was around 9 that time, when teacher of my school nearly sent me back home because I offered same kind of chocolate to her as I did to all the other kids at the school. “Mujhe bhi yahi dega kya”—meaning [...]
Usually, we all want things which we can die for (almost). I now wish that it hadn’t been meant to be like that, I would have felt something blandly comfortable, can’t really tell you what I mean. Out of the door, to another door, one road leading to another, I see the same ghosts all [...]
Then, again, too many times, though my mother had told me to think before speaking. I guess she knew exactly what was going to go wrong with me. I had loved a woman, I had told my mother, “why is it my fault”, but if you’re listening woman, I know now it was my stupid [...]
If one looks at Nihilism or Buddhism at surface levels, we will be surprised at first that finally somebody understands us, and then we will think how such acclaimed philosophies are– “devil-may-care”. But let’s assume that we are doing something significant by living and world does need a presence of people like “us and them” [...]
….Shelly quoted the Treatise on Religion and the State in the original notes to Queen Mab, and began….
….His love of Spinoza had strengthened his friendship with Moses Mendelssohn; and in his great play, Nathan der Weise, he poured into one mould the conception of the Jew which had come to him from the living merchant [...]
One thing that probably happens a lot (gosh it just be me!!) :-
Someone: I tried to reach you all day yesterday
You: Hey, i am so sorry, i was stuck with some stupid work
Someone: Oh, thats ok (Not ok, actually, he/she would be screwing your head figuring out ways he can get back at you for [...]
Mankind is getting lifts, almost every other century, sometimes the hibernation period is too long, that is what it seems looking back at the accounts. We always talk about utopian models, what if, If that.., Where things…, there we would…., and so on. The optimization process is already in process, but the biggest obstacle to [...]
Few important indian cricket stats before further exposition.
No of wins/No of losses(in Test Cricket): 99/136 (i just checked it from two sites, correct if newer stats available)
One would like to think that most of these losses are attributed to periods when India was just born as a cricketing nation.
If we again have a quick look [...]
The enclosures formed by boundaries between us, in a macroscopic view, can be called as institutions. We are raised by “schools” of thoughts, we adjust, re-adjust, re-arrange our wheels of understanding and shift between various institutions. There are few among them who tell us to keep our eyes widespread, and tell us we don’t belong [...]
The idea of cultivating plants without soil must have been intriguing back in 19th century—“You kidding me?” somebody must have snapped at Francis Bacon (one of the first proponents of this branch of agronomy). The idea first came into being when scientists found out that soil is just a carrier of nutrients required for the [...]
It was only last week when I had been sent to my company head quarters. I had a perfect place to stay, “can’t ask for more, can I?” I said to myself. But the honeymoon-thoughts ended in a split second when I realized I had no car with me to go around the “perfect [...]