Today I woke up to realize that something was changing. I was not able to identify simple things that make me happy. I am not sure if it is a problem or just a symptom. It is true that there has been some element volatility that have started surfacing recently in things I do. So if this symptom I wonder is about that transition … Continue reading Simple Things
This Part 2 of My Favorite TED Videos Series and the comments here are the comments that I share in the TED website… Theaster Gates: How to revive a neighbourhood: with imagination, beauty and art Transforming something is an achievement because it connects the past and present and creates a view into the future….. Theaster, Thanks for sharing your experience and learn Brian Dettmer: Old … Continue reading My Favorite TED Videos – Part 2
It is quite interesting to note how we bias our thoughts. How much people put their well being in the hands of religious irrationality. Recently there was a lot of hue and cry over Suryanamaskar the popular yoga sequence which was made compulsory as part of a Yoga drill in india and the solution, drop Suryanamaskar and allow muslims to replace Sholokas (hindu chanting) by … Continue reading You need to de-link Physical Well being From Religious Dogma
Since last few days a controversy is burning on Facebook among the folks because Babu Kuzhimattom, a writer from my home state Kerala in india and the MD of The Kerala Book Marketing Society put up a Facebook post that many people found offensive and say is very demeaning to women. The post is in the image here, it is in malayalam, so I will try to put the gist … Continue reading Even Freedom is a ‘F’ word – The Babu Kuzhimattom Controversy
A religion will behave in accordance with humanity only if it is in minority. The indifference the world population shows to what happens to the Rohingya muslims has a lot to do with putting the Buddhist religion in a different league from others. The western world, spiritual peace lovers and even some new age atheists’ adoration for it as a philosophy and not a religion does … Continue reading Irrationality Can Irreparably break Everything – Be Rational
The religious minority world over cry that their religious freedom is curtailed and they are being victimized for their beliefs. And understandably the religious world every time comes together and rebukes these actions. But my question is what about the religion less, the atheists, the skeptics, the rationalists, the humanists, the secularists who are slaughtered one after the other. Bangladesh, you need to answer… Avijit Roy, … Continue reading Avijit, Washiqur and now Ananta; Bangladesh; Wake up & Voice up
I just read that the Royal baby Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana does not have a poem. How sad… sorry, How wicked :)….. Carol Ann Duffy the UK poet laureate declined to write a poem commemorating the birth of the new royal baby.. The spectator readers are being called to write one in a competition How primitive does one go to prove a point And I wish to … Continue reading The Royal Baby does not have a Poem and now there is a competition for one – WTF
The Indian court determines that Salman Khan the Bollywood superstar is guilty as charged for driving his car under influence and running over street dwellers sleeping on footpath. This incident 12 years ago killed one person, another person lost his leg and some were injured. The long justice process, the verdict and the reactions of many of his film fraternity after the verdict is in the … Continue reading Sorry Sallu: This Mallu is not with you – #SalmanVerdict
It is true that many of the people living in US are not aware of the real numbers… but United states stands second, next only to seychelles in the number of incarceration per 100000 population. United states has 707 people behind bars for every 100000 people that is roughly 2.2 million people who are kept away from the society so safety can be guaranteed. I will not … Continue reading You should watch Alice Goffman’s TED Talk
What if after death you find God exists? Would you believe in him? As an atheist and humanist these are questions I often get from friends and always I answer them and it is kind of getting boring, anyway I am writing this post so I can direct them here next time. For the people who ask this question I will make a few statements that can in … Continue reading What if after death you find God exists?
Vinod Narayan 