What follows below is my personal experience: A person whom I thought was my friend kidnapped me and forced me to sign away a large part of my savings which were held in the form of equity shares traded on the stock exchange. I had made the mistake of boasting about my shareholdings to this […]
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How to make a Powerful Impression on People
You will notice that I have said, a powerful impression, not necessarily a good impression. If that does not deter you read on. The best way to impress people is by not giving a damn what they think of you. Quoting from Emerson’s essay on Self Reliance: Honor is venerable to us because it is […]
Reading for Self Cultivation
Following is a paragraph from Gurcharan Das’s book, The Difficulty of Being Good. Mr. Das had taken early retirement from a successful corporate career and decided to take an academic holiday in which he did a lot of reading and thinking and discovered for himself the meaning of life. Here is how he went about […]
Why War is good
There is reason to think that war is not only inevitable but also desirable. What do I mean by that? I read chapter 2 of Osho’s book on Jesus’ teachings recently. The name of the book is The Mustard Seed and it is considered by some people to be a classic. Link is below. The […]
Why don’t People learn
I first came across this question – Why is it that people never learn – while reading the opening chapter of Shogun, the popular bestseller by James Clavell. If you are looking to be entertained by a rip roaring adventure while being exposed to Japanese culture that this is a book you will want to […]
Do we deserve our Freedom
Do we deserve our freedom? I overheard a conversation between two gentlemen of a mature age recently. They were discussing Donald Trump’s instigation of the crowds that invaded Capitol Hill following his electoral loss to Joe Biden in 2020. After criticizing the democratic form of government that tolerates and allows these sorts of antics one […]
Teach Religion in Schools – Here’s why
The philosopher I was most inspired by, when I was young, Bertrand Russell, would turn in his grave if he was to read this blog. But he himself would have wanted me to have a mind of my own. I will, in this article, be making a case for religious education in schools. I am […]
Regarding the Survival of the Human Race
I’ll start by giving you the link to an interesting YouTube documentary. It is quite long at a bit more than 2 hours but it is well made and if you are interested in such topics as the survival of the human race, the nature of Consciousness and the viewpoint of modern science on these […]
A Required Statutory Warning for Life
I have been a smoker for more than 35 years and I am familiar with statutory warnings on cigarette packets. You have graphic and unpleasant looking photos of diseased body parts with a message saying – Smoking Kills or Cigarette smoking is injurious to health. Now there is one statutory warning that is required as […]
A Guide For Wannabe Entrepreneurs
None of us likes to admit that we are mistaken or wrong about something. In my case and perhaps in the case of very many people I have a morbid fear of making mistakes. And this has had a disastrous effect on my online endeavors. This fear of making mistakes is a trait that might […]