This blog, like many other blogs I have written in my life, was triggered by a book I am reading. The book I am reading right now is called Krishna: The man and his philosophy by Osho. I don’t believe in religion for sure and was a little skeptical about reading this. But it came…
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10 years of blogging
I happened to be looking at my blog’s history and I suddenly realized that I actually first posted on this blog site on 14-Mar-2009. It was of course, a stupid Hello World blog. If you do not know what that means, Hello world is the first thing you do with any software essentially. It’s a…
Continue ReadingWhat i learned from How to win friends and influence people.
Before I decided to read this book, I used to laugh at the title and I probably looked down on people who might have read it. I mean who needs to read a book to win friends? What kind of loser would that person be? Well, here I am, one of such Losers. In hindsight,…
Continue ReadingThe Need for compassion
We live in troubled times. Maybe not all of us but most of us can sense the growing distrust among people. It may be Europe which has been devastated by multiple attacks recently or the war ravaged middle east. And more recently the feeling of distrust has been growing here at home in USA. I…
Continue ReadingLooking for signs of life
You have been looking, hard I may say And yet its not what you expected to find Floating over darkened waters, icy and red Looking for the signs of life And there are none You are climbing the mountains Capped with glistening snow Looking for the signs of life And there are none
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For a moment if you sit and consider This world, this grand universe Where we exist but fleetingly And yet so much potential in this moment To change, to create and to destroy We argue over meaningless issues We fight over small issues We crib about unfair life But we never stop To consider what…
Continue ReadingIndependent: Then why still fighting?
Today is Our Independence Day. India’s Independence Day. 62 years back, this very day, we got our independence from the British. Yet we are still not really free. We are bound by Land, by territory. I am not so well versed with the politics, and country related stuff, but still a small crazy thought floats…
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