For those of you who haven’t heard of Bertrand Russell the following few sentences will suffice. He was a great mathematician and one of the greatest philosophers of modern times. And what can I say about his family. Will Durant writes in The Story of Philosophy: For he belongs to the Russells, one of the […]
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Dealing with the Chaos on the Roads
A friend of mine asked me to write an article on how people don’t obey traffic rules and the risks these people pose to innocent pedestrians. Scooterists and others don’t obey traffic signals and a lot of them are busy on the phone when they are commuting. My friend spoke about how people like pregnant […]
The Benefits of Being Socially Ostracized
What are the benefits of being socially ostracized? I have experienced these benefits myself and so can speak about them. I will list them below: I used to read a lot of self help books when I was young and one sentence in a book by Napoleon Hill really stands out. He says, “Every adversity, […]
All Job Aspirants – Beware
What I am about to relate are exceptional events and will not be repeated in the lives and careers of most people. But these events really happened in my life and may serve as a warning and a guide to young and ambitious job aspirants and professionals. These events took place many decades ago and […]
In Defence of Islam
This article is about Islam. I am a Hindu and a Brahmin but I have read some books and know a bit about the subject. Not a lot but a bit. The reason for this article is that I have been exposed to the Muslims getting a lot of bad press. Plus we have the […]
A Doctrine of Hatred
Indian society and culture have been shaped by the communal violence that accompanied the partition in 1947 into India, East and West Pakistan. Thankfully all these events occurred well before I was born and have not been repeated on the same scale as happened then. But it scarred the psyche of the country and much […]
How to be a Creative Genius
Becoming a genius comes with a price. You need to give over yourself totally to the development of your talents and make some sacrifices. It is a way of life and can be compared to the learned professions like law, accounting and the medical field. The way of life is described in some detail in […]
In Praise of Heroism
A lot of people know this about me. The incident relating to this made the newspapers when it happened more than 20 years ago. I am a coward. I lack physical courage. What happened was that I was kidnapped by some people whom I trusted and made to sign away my Infosys shares that were […]
In Defence of being Offensive
I shared a link from the Quora website on WhatsApp and created a bit of a stir. Here is the link. Read it before you proceed further: https://qr.ae/pr9xrM A couple of my associates messaged saying that they supported free speech and talked about how free speech was being affected by the present dispensation. I took […]
The Appropriate Response to Fanaticism
This is going to be a short article as whatever I have to say has, I think, been said by two of the greatest philosophers of history. The question is – Should fanaticism be opposed with fanaticism or should it be opposed through democratic means? In India, in the decades past, there was a tit […]