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About the Looking for and the Finding of Love
No no, I am not here to preach about love. Maybe someday I shall when I am better positioned to do so but not now. This is about a German film titled Vom Suchen und Finden der Liebe that I just saw. There are some spoliers, and if that bothers you, move on ( Read more... ) -
Leaping bus
This is post is a part of a new blogging series dedicated to the various people who've tried teaching me stuff at some point in the past. More specifically, it touches upon those people and those teaching that I did not grok back then but makes some sense now ( Read more... ) -
Regrettable inactions
We have be brought up in an safe environment where risk taking is considered cool. By safe, I mean a world free of wars, a country if not world with far lesser hunger than our previous generations, a place where tens of millions of people have a "hotline" facility to a bunch of people they wish to be touch with. As in such a day and age, Mark Twain ( Read more... ) -
In the end, good prevails. Or does it?
Like (former) bloggers the world over, twitter has certainly caused serious damage to some serious writing being produced. It is so much more convenient to not have to articulate or substantiate one's ideas. To someone like me who always struggled to find a nice ending, it is a total bliss. This post is not about micro-blogging v/s full blown ( Read more... ) -
Change or awareness?
The world as we know of today seems to be an anomaly. Yes, I am using the word that I so sparingly use to describe things. A lot of power structures are being challenged by the increased flow of information. And my increased flow, I mean everything from people's mobility, hundreds of TV channels, the internet and everything else ( Read more... ) -
The education revolution
I am a firm believer in higher education reforms. And when I say reforms, I mean sweeping reforms, not minor tinkering. Much of the aspiring social reformers spend time in making primary education accessible. Yet, as a country, India has way too many people holding college degrees for what they do. The reason why I find the degrees meaningless is ( Read more... ) -
2 states: After thoughts
On the face of it, 2 states promises to be a fairly commonplace Bollywood movie story line with a predictable ending. The one thing that the storyline makes patently obvious the unrelenting endurance of two people who really want believe in each other have. While at it, the plot also seems to address two admirable thoughts. The first and obvious ( Read more... ) -
Book reload
For lack of better things to do (and an inability to walk too much), I ended up picking a few books yesterday. They are very different from the earlier one in that none of them are true English books. Here is the list ( Read more... ) -
Trading up
8 days ago, I picked up a 530 page book titled Trading up and managed to finish reading it yesterday. That is quite an achievement by my standards and is indicative of my opinion on the book ( Read more... ) -
Crazy for food?
Historically, I come from a country that has faced food shortage at a "national level" multiple times even in the past 100 years. Even thought officially there is no food shortage most of the times, a large number of people still do not get to have the proverbial three square meals a day. I for one, have been fortunate enough to not have come even ( Read more... )