Have been off WordPress for almost a month or more. My dog Xander, a gentle giant with a kind of a philosophical depth in his eyes, left this world on 15/11/2023 after a short illness. He was about 7 years old. Can’t really express the sadness and would rather talk about the joys he brought … Read more
My observations about unpredictability of life, individual efforts, rewards, failures and future. From my experience of working in a big organisation as medical doctor and observing closely, life of my patients. Expecting your comments and opinions. Contrary or otherwise. Past as everyone says, is irreversible. One only has the present in their hands. To experience, … Read more
The Foundation series is a science fiction book series written by American author Isaac Asimov First collected in 1951, for thirty years the series was a trilogy:Foundation, Foundation and Empire and Second Foundation. It won the one-time Hugo Award for “Best All-Time Series” in 1966. Asimov began adding new volumes in 1981, with two sequels: … Read more
Firstly, society is divided in air tight compartments. And they react with each other in an extremely superficial way. Mostly based on commerce. Meaning, based on buying and selling of products or services. The interactions are plainly just negotiations between two parties. There’s no human or emotional element involved. Intellectuals dwell somewhere near the apex. … Read more
Am I prejudiced. Do I have a lot of biases. The answer to both the above questions is an emphatic yes. I am no different from the rest. I do have a lot of prejudices and biases. Have got rid of a lot of them and even acquired new ones in my travels and travails … Read more
He usually worked till sundown but today was one of his lucky days and he had got a lot of orders for deliveries in his pickup truck. The brand new pickup was his recent acquisition as he had stepped into a new career. Had lost his last job as the company where he worked in … Read more
Imagine it’s morning and there’s a mad rush. Alarm has violated your dreams, interrupting and deafening them with a crushing sound. You wake as if you’ve been kicked on your backside. Sit up groggy in your bed trying to make sense of your surroundings. And realise that you have to rush through your morning, if … Read more
Life is one huge jigsaw puzzle and we spend our lives in completing it. Some try to complete it knowingly some unknowingly. Then there are daily, monthly, yearly or hourly jigsaw puzzles to complete. In the form of assignments, projects, participations, responsibilities, organisation work, relationships, families, society, etc., Even executing one’s duties as a normal … Read more
About: the randomness of interactions between human beings and groups. And how they affect individuals as well as society. Earth carries a wealth of animate and inanimate objects. Those in our immediate environment look quite predictable and stable. On a larger scale things are predictable even to the extent of looking uniform, for example the … Read more