Thomas Paine was one of the most lucid and far seeing thinker and Founding Father of the American Revolution, and of the English Enlightenment. One of his works of note, the Rights of Man, prefaced and in many ways accompanied both the Revolutionary War as well as the French Revolution. The Year was 1789. The … Continue reading Rights of Man – An Appeal to Heaven
Nowadays we take for granted the relative safety and security of the Big Daddy enclosed societies we live in. But there were times, much simpler times when responsibility for oneself belonged to each and every one. For instance, back then, 100 or 150 years ago, if there was a danger in the neighbourhood, people, heads … Continue reading The Common Sense of Good Old Times
What are you curious about? Everything. I’m curious about everything and anything. And while Knowledge is infinite, our lifespans are quite minute. By the time we gather the knowledge gathering apparatus and learn how to use it, a third of our life has come and gone. And given that midlife often times is spent in … Continue reading Curiosity
Each generation faces the shift of being proven wrong by the next generation. And every generation imagine itself to be the smartest one in history. Luckily, reality proves us constantly and irrevocably wrong about the world we live in. The other day I was returning home from work thinking about the future of the universe. … Continue reading The Schadenfreunde of Our Mortality
Share what you know about the year you were born. On December 19, 1979, two things happened: the secretary general of the Communist Party of the USSR, Leonid Brezhnev, ordered the Red Army to invade Afghanistan, and I came into this world. Not many people know that the Afghani people are a historical melange of … Continue reading The Power of Syncretism
What cities do you want to visit? Many people would like to visit a civilized, well-manicured city like Dubai or perhaps Zurich. Having heard about the former recently from a close friend who visited, and having just peeked inside the latter myself, I would concur. There is nothing closer to a clean, civilized urban agglomeration … Continue reading City of God
Are you a good judge of character? I’m a good judge of character only when I let my gut feeling guide my judging hand. When you meet someone new, the first ten seconds are your only shot at being a good judge of character. Anything past that mark, and you stumble into the make belief … Continue reading The Fast Judge
When are you most happy? I’m not a lone wolf. Never was even at my lowest psychological ebb. I’ve always cherished my own immediate family and friends. My family is my nucleus and my friends are the electrons of my Atom. Actually, I could never find my birth family amazingly appealing. Or at least not … Continue reading Family and friends
There's eight billion of us on this blue planet of ours. Each and every one of us owes his/her existence to a bunch of other folks. The interdependencies are myriad. Cannot be counted. And yet not everyone of us is truly seized of this self-evident truth. One does not exist in a vacuum. One lives … Continue reading The Marketplace of Favours
Loose lips sink ships. Honni soit qui mal y pense. Or maybe they are closer to the truth then they can imagine in their dirty minds. Oh, how I love a pun.
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