Dvij (द्विज) - Twice Born - Thoughts on The Meaning or Purpose of Life
Blogging Milestone – 100K Views
I just got an alert that this blog has achieved today 100K views and 70K unique visitors! It's been many years since I started this blog; maybe 8 years or so. I had another blog before this one which I had started in 2006-07. So overall it's been 15 years. 100K views in 8 years... Continue Reading →
Will Gunda Outlive Google?
I wrote a post few days back about my liking for Hindi movies. I forgot to mention that I have watched some extremely terrible movies...many of them at theatre! One of such terrible movies I have watched (though not in theatre) is Mithun Chakraborty's Gunda which released on this day in 1998. https://youtu.be/qRrRhvLxbXw The movie... Continue Reading →
Thought of The Day
11th February 2026 𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘐𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳. 𝘐𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳. 𝘐𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘴.
New Puzzle: Tie Knight
#Chess #puzzle Came across this new type of puzzle...https://tileknight.com/Similar to Pawn Mower by Maurice Ashley.So now I might have to drop one of the 5 daily puzzles I attempt to accommodate this one.
Thought of The Day
10th February 2026 “Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.” — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Chess Puzzles
White to play, mate in 2
Thought of The Day
9th February 2026 "I shall live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of the three shall struggle within me."— Charles Dickens
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8th February 2026 “Look at you comforting others with the words you wish to hear.”— William Wordsworth
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7th February 2026 “Hesitation is fatal; once an action is begun, it must be followed through with the utmost exertion of the will.” — Napoleon
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6th February 2026 “Let everything happen to youBeauty and terrorJust keep goingNo feeling is final”― Rainer Maria Rilke
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5th February 2026 “The hypocrisy of being human; the constant tug between solitude and company, the desire to love so desperately and simultaneously be detached from it all, of wanting everything and wanting nothing”.
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4th February 2026 “We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”— Charles Bukowski

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