Sharing this not because I agree with the message but because it stimulates thinking. Richard Dawkins too says (though in a different context): "Universe has no purpose". I think it is right to say that life has no purpose (i.e. we are not born with a purpose of our own). However it is also true... Continue Reading →
Happy World Book Day!
Today is World Book Day - birthday of William Shakespeare. Here are some interesting quotes and pics for the day... Each book you read is a minor software upgrade for your brain. "Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything" — Plato A statue... Continue Reading →
What Is Investment? – A Lesson By Usain Bolt
“What is investment?" Usain Bolt won 8 gold medals in 3 Olympics, and he only ran for less than 115 seconds on the track, earning $119 million dollars. That’s economy of effort. But for those 2 minutes, he trained for 20 years. That’s investment. Think long term. Patience pays. And just to end it on... Continue Reading →
Review: Portrait of A Lady On Fire
We often use the word "luck" very loosely. For example, I was lucky to find something, or be some place at right time. Actually there is a precise word in English to describe that feeling. It's called "serendipity". serendipity/ˌsɛr(ə)nˈdɪpɪti/Learn to pronounce noun noun: serendipity; plural noun: serendipities the occurrence and development of events by chance in a... Continue Reading →
Life Imitates Art…
Life imitates art far more than art imitates life — Oscar Wilde I was reminded of this quote after seeing two art works - one from 1914 and the other from an unknown period. Both truly depict the current scenario in the world caused by COVID-19 #Corona. Giorgio de Chirico’s masterpiece, “Mystery and Melancholy of... Continue Reading →
Letting Go…
It's a very tough decision and I'm not sure if every person has to face it at least once in his life. The decision of letting go... I had bought a Kindle eBook reader in 2012. Really liked it and accumulated a lot of books on it. Sometime in 2016 it started causing issues. The... Continue Reading →
Kintsugi: The Art of Precious Scars
Kintsugi (金継ぎ, "golden joinery"), also known as Kintsukuroi (金繕い, "golden repair"), is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, a method similar to the maki-e technique. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise. Source: Wikipedia Very interesting concept. Instead of hiding... Continue Reading →
Lost In Translation…
I used to think that I am a reasonably effective communicator. i.e. I may not be very articulate but I manage to get the point across. It seems I was wrong. If cautious reluctance to communicate is misconstrued as lack of courage to speak up my mind then I've miserably failed. I am hurt. I... Continue Reading →
वाचावे असे काही: संपूर्ण स्त्री खूप कमी लोकांना मिळते…!!!
How to communicate without communicating? How do you know that someone you love has not forgotten you and still thinks about you? अनेकदा असं वाटतं की हे शेअर केलं पाहिजे...ह्यावर खूप गप्पा मारल्या पाहिजेत...अगदी पूर्वीसारख्या. पण मग वाटतं...हे एकतर्फी आहे. आवरा. आणि मग ते पटवण्यासाठी जुन्या जखमा जाग्या होतात...केल्या जातात. पण कधी कधी एखाद्या बेसावध... Continue Reading →
Vanity Of A Dictator Exposed
Who will bear responsibility for this? Daily loss of ₹8.5 lakh. A badly conceptualized project funded by public money is no less than corruption. Do we then need Bullet Train and Hyperloop? This is vanity of a dictator and his cronies getting exposed day by day. The person, the party and the ideology which came... Continue Reading →
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