Following are the general familial thoughts when a family member is about to die: Let him not die now! Where the f**k do we find money for his funeral immediately? Let us shift him to a hospital. It is easy to make funeral arrangements from there. Let him not die! He is yet to make […]
Author: Dr. K. Raja Gopal Reddy
Now It’s Time to say Goodbye!
How is it to be there? How lonely is it? Is it still growing red at Sunset? Are the birds still sing on their way to the forest? Can you receive the letter I dared not send? Can I convey the confession I dared not make? Will time pass and roses fade? Now it’s time […]
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM 2022 – “Profiting from Pain”
Rich and powerful from across the globe gathering World Economic Forum, Davos – a self-styled international organization for public and private partnership, for its annual meeting after a two-year COVID gap. @World Economic Forum billionaires celebrate the surge in their pandemic fortunes acquired with the steep increase in food and energy prices. During the pandemic, […]
What is life after age 40?
At 55, I am qualified to inform about going downhill after the 40th year. You get into life with the presumption that you will never get out. The beauty and handsome you thought were hot during school / college days, have all transformed into wildebeests. In mid-40’s, one begins to experience all aches, pains and […]
MY FRIENDS FOR THIS LIFE
Today morning my father was talking of the importance of relations and friends in life. He says they are the best insurance one can ever have! I disagree with him completely. I have only two friends for life. I realized the existence of these friends much later…when I began thinking in a matured manner. These […]
DEATH OF GOD, BY SUICIDE
Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche said, ‘God is dead’. This quotation is a world famous one. Through this quotation Nietzsche became immortal. The question is how did He die? Was He murdered? Or death by accident? Or executed by the law? Or committed suicide? He couldn’t have been murdered because I never heard of his wife running […]
Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon or the Song of Songs is an Old Testament book. The book, whose author is unknown (Solomon’s name is a later addition), is a collection of love poems spoken alternately by a man and a woman without any coherent story. These poems describe the beauty and excellence of the beloved. The Song of Solomon has […]
Ship of Theseus
Theseus was the mythical Greek founder king of Athens. The Ship of Theseus is a thought experiment of ancient philosophers like Heraclitus, Plato etc., going back to 500 – 400 BC. This experiment is about whether an object that has had all of its components replaced remains fundamentally the same object. “As the planks of […]
We, Macaulay’s Children…
Thomas Babington Macaulay (25 Oct 1800 – 28 Dec 1859) was a British historian and politician and father of Western education system in India. The Penal Code he created became the Indian Penal Code in 1860. Macaulay’s education and Penal Code are the pillars of Modern India. Macaulay created a special class of persons who are Indians in […]
Ayn Rand’s We the Living / Noi Vivi and Addio, Kira
On September 14, 1942, the Italian film of Ayn Rand’s We the Living premiered at the Venice Film Festival winning a major award and a standing ovation from all. September 14, 2022 will be the 80th anniversary of the movie. This is occasion to celebrate this superb film, its “lost years” and rediscovery, and its […]
