silence before the storm

An apprehension that has been perpetually haunting me, from the time I remember my own conscious thoughts is the sensation of having done s...

Over a casual discussion with a friend, which as usual ended up being vibrantly philosophical, the question of fear and the sources of fear...

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate...

The Wealth of Nations is considered to be the basis of classical Economics which has today grown to become the foundation of the Free Mark...

When I'm with students, the aspects of contentment and discontentment are all the same - exams, projects, jobs When I'm with work...

Got on to reading fiction after quite sometime; And this time I made it a point to get hold of some humor. Based on the collective opinions...

I must finally, and gladly admit that the last one month of my life has been the most satiating in terms of the quality conversion that h...

You might want to brand me a knurd, geek, or any other stereotype, into which I might be far from being congruent. Nonetheless, as I lay o...

Well, if you are expecting Ayn Rand and the selective endorsement of her individualism on my part in this post, after having read the titl...

Reading this autobiographical, tell-all book by John Perkins seemed surreal. I am not someone who is very naive about manipulations; I wou...

A personal observation about the contents I'm discoursing on my personal blog: It certainly is getting unbalanced. Unbalanced in terms ...

Talk by Prof.S Chatterjee Science can afford to wait but Swaraj cannot ... P C Ray The prolonged Indian Freedom struggle,...

How lucky we are to be alive, given that the vast majority of people who could potentially be thrown up by the combinatorial lottery of DNA...

The exaggerated rumours during the Egyptian revolution, that the revolution itself was a ramification of the existence of social networks l...

ITEC has been around for sometime now and has been taking up some important tasks pertaining to the 'elusive' IT industry. Attempt...

Over a casual chat, a friend discussed an observation to me, which was rather very interesting, and worth pondering further, beyond the dis...

A new experience it was, altogether today. It will stay with me forever. Bidding adieu to my first job at MRO-TEK turned out to be harder ...

Taking decisions in life, now, when I am at the verge of an important decision feels like playing a tricky game of chess! I have thought d...

Encountering rationales is getting tougher by the day in today's technology driven world. As paradoxical it might seem, irrationality is...

Numerous ancient temples, variety of deliciously tasty food, detailed political gyaan at every corner of the road, meter-less auto-rickshaws...

Capitalist modes of running a society and its criticism is a highly elaborate exercise, and to take up that task I am still inadequately equ...

"Inner Engineering", "Spiritual Software", "Cosmic architecture", and many more paradoxical terms have seen a ...

Am I a materialist? Yes and No. Yes : In the context of non-idealism; in my manners of understanding everything around me. This tinge of...

 I am a self proclaimed admirer of Julian Assange [ J ] and more so of WikiLeaks[ WL ]. Let this trait of mine not induce an idea that th...

It's quite amazing as to how we can make ourselves believe, almost in a manner of self-deception, by repeatedly emphasising on something...