Powerful Dialogues from Network

Over a lovely dinner with friends, we watched the Oscar-winning movie Network. The concept and dialogues were both powerful and impressive. The movie is about a TV news network trying to make profits out of a senior news anchor who seems to have gone insane. The film sheds the hypocrisies of the society bare naked. [...]

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Simple Emotional Oscillations

Quite often, what we think we’d do turns out to be different from what we actually end up doing. — In crisis, we think we’d possibly feel upset for a little amount of time. Ideally, we do not even want that — we’d like to be the eternally calm surface of a deep lake. What [...]

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Book Review: The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner

Why do we want to have friends? Why do we want to make money? Why do we want to travel, or explore? A lot of these whys trace their beginnings at the quintessential human search for happiness. Happiness — the great motivation behind so many of our actions — who to call a friend, what to [...]

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Why Manmohan Singh is Not as Weak as You Think

Sometimes over hot sips of chai with friends, the vapors have occasionally brimmed up a conversation about the Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh. Even before the mention of his trademark blue pagri (and the fact that he wears the same-colored clothes everyday), or any talk of his unparalleled resume, or a word about his acheivements [...]

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The Idea of Reality

If the age of the universe is about 14 billion years — as widely believed — then the average human life is as shortlived as single blink of an eyelid over one whole year.

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An Instruction Manual For Life

Wandering reader, thank you for finding your way here. It was time for renewal, and this is where it begins. A relative emptiness is exactly what I needed for the start of another exciting journey in words. Let me just leave here an interesting video I recently came across. Enjoy. See you soon, with more [...]

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Voting: The Informed Way

Google has come out with an amazing webpage, specially designed for the upcoming Indian elections. You just put in the name of your constituency and you get all the key facts — relevant information, like the assets of your MP, his attendance at Lok Sabha, the improvement (or worsening of your constituency during the last [...]

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Mumbai 2: Born in Crisis

Nagma, a migrant worker, gave birth to her child in a train This young boy was born in a train’s toilet. Why? Because Raj Thackeray and his party MNS propelled a wave of violence against fellow Indians in Mumbai. This woman, a poor worker from Bihar, had no option left but to flee Mumbai for [...]

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Om Namoh Shivay!

23 June, 2006 This is perhaps the last time I am going to be in Allahabad. Yesterday, I went to Man-ka-meshwar temple, near the Sangam (the meeting place of Ganga, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati). I had visited this temple before leaving for Delhi for my visa interview, and it was a nice experience. The [...]

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