You know what I had started to think? I had started to feel that I was beginning to lose the passion with which I used to approach literature. I had been reading good books by really accomplished writers and I had begun to like almost everything that I read, which made me think that perhaps [...]
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Looking back on this new year's day
It's a new year! And what better time to resume this sporadic trickle of posts which has fallen through the faucet of this forum for the last 6 years; gushing and ebullient in its infancy and seemingly wise and reserved now that 'I have been through the ropes'. I like, every now and then, to [...]
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Conversations
Looking back at the years spent in UCSD, one thing dawns clearer than any other. I have enjoyed the company and friendship of only those who explicitly offered neither brilliant insights into the grave facets of life nor any secret fountains of wisdom. I have come to despise small and big talk alike and I [...]
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Farewells
We often take our own natures and predispositions to be more special, more peculiar than those which we ascribe, in an abstract sense, to others. And poisoned by this very affliction I find myself being affected by farewells in a way which to me is more nuanced than how I think other people get affected [...]
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The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins wrote his best known work, The Selfish Gene, in the late 70s and initiated a silent and powerful revolution in the field of evolutionary biology. This was much before when he went nuts and started introducing himself as a militant atheist, writing books with titles like The God Delusion. I personally never heard [...]
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India wins!
28 years a nation in waiting, almost 20 years since I personally have been, a whole generation which went through the heartbreak every four years for more than 2 decades, and today it happened. And just like that, silently and subconsciously, the world cup was dedicated to the one man who has singlehandedly shouldered the [...]
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Oh Wilde!
I figure that lately I have been reading far too much literature which makes little sense to my limited understanding. Joyce's 'Portrait of the artist as a young man' and Woolf's 'To the lighthouse' left me fumbling for coherence and made me wish for sentences to be shorter, intentions to be clearer, and flights of [...]
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Excerpts from Heisenberg's 'Science and Religion'
It's instructive to see how nuanced the thinking of some of the greatest minds at the turn of the last century was. There is no incriminating bashing of religion (except by Dirac perhaps), no overconfidence in science, none of the polemic which is so much a part of modern day evangelists of atheism like Dr. [...]
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The American Divide
During my last 5 years of stay in America, the one thing that has always managed to perplex me about this country is how much of a dichotomous heart it manages to hide under its own twinkling skin. This dichotomy is in its simultaneous sanctuary to the conservative and the ultra liberal, the billionaire and [...]
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