Today for example I say “I like color Red” and tomorrow if I say ‘I like color Blue’, people will pounce on me to declare that I am self – contradicting fool! The unwritten inviolable rule of the society is that we cannot contradict ourselves. In fact, according to the society, we cannot have contradictory […]
Category: Miscellaneous
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, […]
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 […]
Uninstalling WhatsApp – Defeating Mark Zuckerberg
Like millions of Indians and billions of the world, I too have a smart phone. I have been using the smart phone for various purposes – check emails, take calls, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Telegram, Twitter and Coo and many more! Eery day a new app / a new program is invented and we download it. […]
Time is Strange
I am writing as we may not have this conversation in person in immediate future. I want to tell you how I feel and to tell you some of the things that are difficult to say. I remember your father being your age and promising himself that he would do a better job of being […]
Sayonara Yahoo India
Computers are very recent. Sometime in mid-1990s, I was trying to learn computers. There used to be two institutes which were considered as very good and they were APTECH and NIIT. They used to charge exorbitantly. Further, the penetration of the idea, that computers are the future, into human psyche was too slow. People used […]
Bhagwan Baniya Hai
You may be surprised and so will every reader! Bhagwan Baniya Hai? To translate this into English – ‘God is a Businessman’. In India, Baniya is a caste, known for its business talents. Here, we are not symbolizing caste…but an activity. God is a businessman. ‘God Business’ is another business. In the name of God, […]
The Life Lived
What is life? Observing my father, a retired Indian Police Service officer and the Distinguished Service Citation awardee from the President of India, I feel that life is what you lived. Ambitions, greed, passion, and many more, when all start subsiding the real human being emerges. I find these days my father’s face more peaceful, […]
The Enticing TMH Photo of The Three Men
I received a photo this morning sent by a friend of mine. Three handsome fair men sitting and all are sitting with hands folded on the table. The table has on it a simple 3-ply mask, couple of tissue papers, a bunch of keys, Bailey water bottle, TMH’s menu card, a mobile phone and a […]
Life with 39 Wives and 94 Children
Late Shri Ziona Chana died on 13th June, 2021 at the age of 76. In today’s world people are afraid of getting married – both men as well as women. Women complain about men and vice versa. Probably the phobia of commitment is haunting them and their unwillingness to marry. Late Mr. Ziona Chana had […]
