Category: Opinion
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Two Ways to Go Crazy
Yesterday was a Sunday entirely different from the hundred before it. I did two things. Quizzing 8 hours of questions and answers (and excellent guesses) with my partner – Shruti parimoo General Quiz #1: At NIE, Mysore. We reached about an hour early and talked about neuroplasticity, and the like. Then, the first round started.…
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Things You SHOULD Learn from M K Gandhi
I woke up today morning reading this on Quora: What are the biggest mistakes of Mahatma Gandhi? The answer tells that the British were comfortable with Gandhi heading India, and that complete non-violence was probably a big mistake. Two things. Non-violence works in international affairs. Especially after the second world war.This must be self evident.…
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The Difference Between Interesting Things and Useful Things
How many times has this happened in your life? You’re travelling in a bus, and the person sitting in the first seat at the front suddenly puts his face outside and looks at something. Within milliseconds, people sitting in the window seats in the 5 rows behind him do the same. And in the next…
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New Year, New Heights, New Directions
It’s often good to be resolute even if it doesn’t last in you for more than a few days, because you end up doing something rather than waste your potential. I’ve made a few impossible resolutions which will let me have fun for the next week at least. I’ll be getting a mountain bike from…
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How Life Can Be Lived One Day at a Time Only
It is very difficult to plan for the future. You can never say what’s going to change, what isn’t. And that makes it impossible to plan everything in advance. You can prepare for everything. But you cannot plan for everything. Sometimes, things have to be solved on the fly. Situations unseen arise, but so do…
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Faults that are Nobody’s
More often than not in life things go wrong because of nobody’s fault. But the trouble is when we try to find someone to be blamed. With the realization that some shit happens because of cumulative errors that cannot be stashed upon a single person, comes the inner peace of not having to argue over…
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Are You Cool if You Perform Bad in Your Duties?
It is not cool that you don’t touch your textbooks. Seriously. I’ve hundreds (literally) of friends who when asked how studies are say "Who cares?" maybe because they actually don’t care, or maybe just to appear cool. But it’s just painful. To think that not studying properly, having fun all the time, makes one cool…
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What Ails Our Higher Education? Let’s Stop Blaming The System
This post is intended to supplement the post of the same title in SVYM founder’s blog. "Simple living and high thinking" was Gandhiji’s motto. But most of the Indians have failed to imbibe that. And that’s indirectly led to all problems we are facing today. Education, from the elementary level, is failing to make children…
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Is Corruption All? : A Look into the Real World Problems in Government Offices
There seems to be a consensus on the idea that all problems that we face in our governmental system is due to corruption. This anecdote might help you see some other complicated and routine sides of the “efficiency” issue of our offices. My dad is a medical officer, and he told me this story last…
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Be Fearless
“Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. it is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.” ~Vivekananda What is the root of all miseries in the world? Worries. Why do we worry? We are afraid something will happen. Fear. What is one major reason we fear? We have done something wrong,…