Chetan Bhagat has done it again and I must say there is an increased level of depth to his novels with each one of them as the years pass by, but there is also an increased commercial feel to his books,… Continue Reading →
Inspired by Fictional character : Tyler Durden, FightClub (1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk), (Portrayed by Brad Pitt, FightClub , 1999 film).. …………………………………………………………………………. *Tyler interrupts and thrusts the gun at point blank range* Tyler: “Would you rather be dead??” Raymond: “No…… Continue Reading →
Inspired by Fictional character : Tyler Durden, FightClub (1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk), (Portrayed by Brad Pitt, FightClub , 1999 film).. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… *At 9 o’clock in the evening, in the backyard of a local convenience store, Tyler Durden drags… Continue Reading →
Schadenfreude- is pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others. The feeling of happiness when you see someone you envy ,fall in life and get all bruised up. Kind of like when the teachers favorite student gets the least marks. How has… Continue Reading →
Overturning paradigms and how we need to deal with them.:-(The long version) We’ve all at some point of time or the other rooted for the hero who would swoop down all suave knight in shining armour, save the damsel in… Continue Reading →
Can you believe what you see? Is your reality much more different from the collective reality? Is the collective reality based on only how much we as a highly functional and social beings perceive with our limited senses? Apart from… Continue Reading →
Aiming or goal orientation is one very important part of every individual’s life. We never know if we land in the forest or an empty island when we don’t have a final destination. We cannot afford to stop at different… Continue Reading →
An elephant’s head on a human body, a broken tusk and a cracked belly- whichever way you look at him he seems the embodiment of imperfection, of incompleteness. How indeed can one fathom the mystery that this very Vakratunda–Mahakaya, with… Continue Reading →
Forced to get up by my annoying alarm clock I go for my daily morning walk in the park when I am a little more than surprised to see two girls ( around 14 yrs) standing by the walkway with a… Continue Reading →
While I stood in line almost half an hour in advance excited to be given the right to choose my representatives in the parliament and assembly, I couldn’t help but feel a heady sense of patriotism run through me. On… Continue Reading →
Recent history is rather humourous just on the account that while we see democracy cracking at the seams we also get to see some things that seem inevitable in hindsight. Bush getting sho(o)ed (pun intended) has seemed to open the… Continue Reading →
While violence during campaigning isn’t so much of a shock, what with respected and established journalists being shot on the streets for something they have written to blowing people up,or mysterious disappearances since 1947 and maybe aeons before that… Continue Reading →
Social media has become a battleground for candidates to forward their political ambitions, treating it like a popularity contest rather than a medium of open communication that it is for us common people, but we can’t seem to complain… Continue Reading →
I guess that this decade even in its “infancy”, has seen its fair share of flashmobs in places like parks,airports,workplaces(Infosys among others),shopping malls and even amid traffic jams and recently our own K.M.I.T. 🙂 (rarely,but even in prisons!). The momentum… Continue Reading →
George Orwell in his book “1984” warned us about how the education system as it is of now ,will only lead to generations of mind controlled drones with no originality ,individuality or creativity. The importance of individual thought cannot be… Continue Reading →
THE GAIN IN OUR LOSS Sweet are the uses of adversity Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head. -Shakespeare-“As You Like It” Emotion-a word that is much abused due to the irrational… Continue Reading →
“Twitter, twitter is a ball, yet discretion could save us all!”-Praharshita Krishna TWITTER-There is a flood of emotions, images, opinions voiced on this beautifully designed masterpiece of a social network whose market shares keep climbing in value. Yet, the spotlight… Continue Reading →
The Delhi elections has made many a complacent party sit up and take notice of this young albeit strong contender for the 2014 elections. Generally forced to chose between BJP and Congress the public had lost all interest in our… Continue Reading →
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