Feb 18, 2022The Male-Female Duality of the Cosmos“God has to become two, only then the game, the play, is possible. He (God) felt very lonely. He longed for the other, that’s why he became two. He became man and woman, cow and bull, and so on and so forth. The whole existence is sexual. …Yin And Yang6 min readYin And Yang6 min read
Jan 8, 2022The Harvard professor turned Yogi who influenced Steve Jobs“Jobs found himself deeply influenced by a variety of books on spirituality & enlightenment, most notably Be Here Now, a guide to meditation & the wonders of psychedelic drugs by Baba Ram Dass, born Richard Alpert. “It was profound,” Jobs said. “It transformed me and many of my friends.” Excerpt…5 min read5 min read
Sep 12, 2021The Innovation Stagnation“We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters” Peter Thiel In intellectual circles of today, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning are generously discussed. While I myself am curious and hopeful about them, it feels strange to witness the world of bits and bytes basking in glory while other areas…4 min read4 min read
Jul 20, 2021Is Reality just a controlled hallucination?The eyes of the Mantis Shrimp (unlike ours) can independently gauge depth and distance. While humans have 3 types of light-detecting cells, the Mantis has 12. This species has a spectacular visual apparatus but how it actually sees is still a mystery. One night, when sleep evaded me, I thought…4 min read4 min read
Jul 9, 2021Rediscovering the Better Angels of our nature in Ancient WisdomThe earth is 4.6 billion years old. If we scale that to 46 years, we have been here for 4 hours. The industrial revolution began a minute ago and we have already destroyed 46 % of the forests. We have woven the tragedy of rising temperatures & vanishing species in…Climate Change4 min readClimate Change4 min read
Jun 20, 2021The Science behind Bigotry“When an apple has ripened and falls, why does it fall? Because of its attraction to the earth, because its stalk withers, because it is dried by the sun, because it grows heavier, because the wind shakes it, or because the boy standing below wants to eat it? Nothing is…Discrimination4 min readDiscrimination4 min read
May 27, 2021Society’s Insidious Enchantment with Visual Learning“I wish to understand the Israel- Palestine conflict. Let me find the shortest possible documentary online.” My slothful brain a few days ago Depending on visual content has become ubiquitous today. It is not uncommon to find EdTech companies rhapsodizing about how their visual teaching will turn kids into wizards…Education4 min readEducation4 min read
May 13, 2021Pursuit of Myopic Knowledge & Lost Charm of Pointless Knowledge“In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man-that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful…Education3 min readEducation3 min read
Apr 13, 2021The curse of manic busy-ness: A case for working less“What is your opinion on work-life balance?” is a ubiquitous interview question where candidates are supposed to philosophize and churn out premeditated poetic answers. In reality, we can’t wait to dash off from the workplace. Getting through the weekdays to fall into the clasps of weekends becomes the supreme motto…Work Life Balance4 min readWork Life Balance4 min read
Mar 31, 2021Reading Fiction: An Endangered Pastime in a highly efficient worldThese are times of efficiency and productivity. All activities should have a tangible & an observable outcome. Books should help me in my career, make me sound smarter or improve my finances or health etc. I have no qualms against such reading and I myself indulge in it often. …Fiction3 min readFiction3 min read
