Dyab Abou Jahjah is a Columnist @Destandaard and he tweeted “I am not Charlie, I am Ahmed the dead cop. Charlie ridiculed my faith and culture and I died defending his right to do so. ” This tweet is very important and should be shared because as individuals we should never shoot our ability to think… yes we are all slaves to our emotions at times, … Continue reading We should never shoot our ability to think
So there is this one person who is so pissed off with me. I am assuming he is angry because of my posts, I would not want to guess his religious faction (but you can guess from the tweet), except that he is not a Muslim…. apparently he stays anonymous in twitter…. anyway the person is a Malayali which I know from one of his … Continue reading How to respond to your faceless and spineless critics
Sometimes we cannot directly change the way things happen in our world, but after every shocking incident we are left with questions, some we have answers some we do not, some we think we have and some we need help with. Today when I woke up to the news of the Charlie Hebdo shooting, the first thing that came to my mind is “They have … Continue reading Charlie Hebdo, Cartoons and Religious intolerance
I am posting this to be fair to a comment I put on Facebook and bring a point that no religion should be above criticism sorry if I am being too blunt here…. I posted this as comment on a friend’s post where he shared Richard Dawkin’s “explanation to peshawar attack” and since it is controversial, I think it will be unfair if I do … Continue reading Why we should talk about religion when we talk about the Peshawar attack
I have been a Netflix user for a long time now, watching great deal of movies on it. At anytime I have around 400 movies in my list to watch. Many have been there for so long that I forgot. The reason Netflix has been so attractive to me is because at a time I watch more than one movie. Meaning I need not necessarily complete … Continue reading ‘Mubi in a Netflix world’ by a Netflix user
We have successfully pushed the year back. Well we did not really push it, it gave way as we lived through it. But it is nice to think that we had something to do about it. After all maybe we did, because many of us survived to see it while many did not. We live in a very different world where our survival is not always the … Continue reading My 2015 New Year Note
So before the new year starts I got my third Tattoo… ‘മർത്ത്യൻ’ which is a malayalam word and reads ‘Marthyan’. The literal meaning of ‘Marthyan’ is ‘Mortal’ and the antonym being ‘Amarthyan’ or ‘Immortal’. ‘Marthyan’ is also used in malayalam language to suggest ‘Human being’ Why മർത്ത്യൻ? First ‘മർത്ത്യൻ’ is my pen name when I write in malayalam, my mother tongue; Second I feel that it would be … Continue reading The significance of my new Tattoo (The Importance of being a Mortal)
Facebook keeps telling me “Vinod, here’s what your year looked like!” Really…? And once I accept it, FB will relay to the world that “It’s been a great year for me” Facebook wants people to say that “It’s been a great year; Thanks for being Part of it” I am perfectly OK with the second part…. Thanking you all for being part of my year but not because it … Continue reading Why I Won’t be creating my Facebook ‘It’s been a great year’ Post
One of the interesting reasonz people give for the existence of religion is that it gives ‘meaning to life’ for many… I would agree that for many something outside religion can appear totally meaningless… and that is because they have not really tried to look outside religion… the possibility of life without religion, without God has not been explored, that is all…. the possibilities are … Continue reading Is there something called ‘the Meaning to Life’?
Recently someone raised a question, if activism on Facebook, Twitter and social media is just ‘feel good’ activism that people undertake in the comforts of their home or can it make a difference as what people from yesteryears did marching on the streets. Being a person who often change FB cover photos and post opinions as protest on social media I have always asked that same question to myself. … Continue reading Some Personal Thoughts on Social Media Activism
Vinod Narayan 