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The reality is that no Dark Knight will rise to correct our wrongs… Thoughts on Colorado Shooting… We all need a safer world for our kids to live

There is a reality and that is there is no Dark Knight who will rise and save the city of Gotham. The City of Gotham is a city and environment in our imagination where we think we have a savior who will rise up to beat and ward off the miscreants. The true reality within our imagination is that the existence of the Dark Knight … Continue reading The reality is that no Dark Knight will rise to correct our wrongs… Thoughts on Colorado Shooting… We all need a safer world for our kids to live

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Guwahati – Questions on Law and order, Underage drinking, Media ethics and more…everyone is answerable…

The Guwahati incident is not just an incident of shame, it is an incident that opens up so many questions before us. Starting from under aged drinking to the Thug nature, mob mentality to media ethics, authorities response, indifference and lack of basic civility among people. On one side I was thinking how someone could stand there and shoot the incident without doing what is … Continue reading Guwahati – Questions on Law and order, Underage drinking, Media ethics and more…everyone is answerable…

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Jiddu, Gurdjeiff, Awareness, Waking Sleep and some thoughts

Once Jiddu Krishnamurti was traveling in a car and Pupul jayakar and another eminent personality (whose name fails my brain now) were sitting in the back seat discussing the true meaning of awareness and conscious…and the discussion got heated with both of them opening up their knowledge boxes in response to the other. Both of them were influenced a lot by Jiddu (Pupul even wrote … Continue reading Jiddu, Gurdjeiff, Awareness, Waking Sleep and some thoughts

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Thinking that you are superior because of your caste is a Mental Illness!!!

Kudos to Aamir for bringing the issue of casteism on national television…. Loved when he said that if anyone feels they are superior due to their birth in a particular caste it is a mental illness 🙂 Beautifully said… I still remember many skeptics who watched Aamir’s first show was saying they will agree that he is doing a good job if he brings up … Continue reading Thinking that you are superior because of your caste is a Mental Illness!!!

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Meena, Sugathakumari, Gandhi, Touch and We….

Here is my 2 cents on the big hue and cry on Sugatha Kumari (The renowned Malayalam Poetess) refusing to release the poetry collection “Sparsham” by Meena Kandaswamy (The english Indian Poetess) a translation of her english poetry book “Touch”. It is a free world and if Meena has the right to publish poems as an expression of her creative calibre, Sugatha Kumari has an … Continue reading Meena, Sugathakumari, Gandhi, Touch and We….

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Meeting Gary Guller

Meeting Gary Guller is like referring to an edition of the dictionary that did not print the word ‘impossible’. We refer dictionaries not for knowledge but for meanings to words that we find hard to understand or even not know about. When you hear Gary speak as you sit in the audience or when you have a one on one chat with him, he answers … Continue reading Meeting Gary Guller

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Call 1098 Child Line – India’s 24 hour emergency outreach number for children in need of care and protection

I am not sure what the cynics of Aamir Khan’s Satyameva Jayate would say after watching (if they watched) the second episode of the program that was focused on Child Sexual Abuse. Again this is also a known issue and as protective parents we all fear our kids having to face such a situation, but again do we know everything we need to know to … Continue reading Call 1098 Child Line – India’s 24 hour emergency outreach number for children in need of care and protection

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Afghan Star – The First Music Talent show in Afghanistan

Born into the war and civil unrest they belong to a generation that had only heard about peace but never really lived in it. They had probably known the existence of something called freedom and democracy but never really tasted it. The documentary looks at Afghanistan’s first live talent show “Afghan Star” The documentary opens with a very touching song by a blind boy who … Continue reading Afghan Star – The First Music Talent show in Afghanistan

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Translation vs. Inspiration

Today I tried to translate a very poetic Malayalam song “Surma Ezhuthiya Mizhikale”. I found that I was in a chakravyuh. I knew how to get in but I had no clue how to get out. The problems of half knowledge. A chakravyuh is a military tactical formation which can be translated as “wheel lock” where you have two aspects of a knowledge, getting in … Continue reading Translation vs. Inspiration

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Resume Building and Jumping Ships

Earlier there was nothing called a resume building process that is tightly coupled with a person’s career. You finish education, get on the first job that comes and then retire from that job. Working for the Government and the private company was nothing different when it comes to the tenure you spend in a place. But then it changed when people started changing the companies … Continue reading Resume Building and Jumping Ships

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