Recently I heard Zak Ebrahim talk on Ted. Zak is an activist and Author of the book “A Terrorist’s son”. His talk in my opinion raises the point that there is a better way to life and you can find it even if you have been indoctrinated to violence during childhood. That you can look at life and love instead of death and hate. It is a … Continue reading Should Kids be taught religion?
Someone asked me if I had an opinion about Kiran Bedi running for election and, honestly I do not have one. She is an Indian citizen and she can run for what ever she wants, election or marathon and in which ever party she wants. It is all her choice. Now , Yes she was against politics….. have spoken against it always. It was evident that … Continue reading Kiran Bedi was a Supercop; but there is no Superpolitician, there is only ‘the politician’
TED videos help me look at the world I live in. It has been a big learning experience to understand perspectives, problems and participations as a human being. I have also been active in commenting and connecting within the viewing community. As part of the connection someone I met online is currently making a visual representation of one of my poems. TED for me is a platform … Continue reading My Favorite TED Videos – Part 1
Hi Human Being, How human were you today? Were you able to breathe in and breathe out well? Is that what it means to be human every day? Then I think I was human today. If it is more than that then I guess I was not human. I was practically a nothing today…. I guess…. Today I read the Pope say that killing in … Continue reading A question to a Human being. How Human were you today?
Two days back I told about this anonymous twitter follower of mine who has started his tweet project to send annoying tweets mostly in response to my tweets. I mentioned that on a funny note earlier, but lately it is getting less funny and more irritating. I use social media to raise an opinion and share a thought so it can be debated among people I … Continue reading Should you block or report a user who annoys you
If you have had one of those rare delusions that you are writing OK, you should attend a writer’s event and meet other writers. You will know how serious people take their craft and you will also get to know how well people write and how committed they are. I had such an experience today as I attended the PWLive event organized by the Poets & … Continue reading My day of inspiration at the PWLive
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
Vinod Narayan 