Category: Opinion
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When Doing Good is Bad For You
This is a choice that the social revolutionary in a not so bad democracy has to face. He is confronted with injustice or inequality that doesn’t harm him directly, and won’t harm him at all if he ignores it. But if he decides to try and eliminate that evil, his future will be in risk.…
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If Childhood Could Not Influence You
I am going to take you through a very unfamiliar ride. You will have to trust me completely and prepare to be thrown around. The idea I’m about to give is going to shake your fundamental beliefs and core values. And that is invariable owing to the nature of it. So, if you have your…
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A Lot Can Happen Over Coffee
Yesterday, I met two scientists. One is a neuroscientist about to join Yale, the other, her husband, an immunologist in NY. And they changed my perception about how I should pursue my higher studies after MBBS. No, the meeting wasn’t a coincidence. I’d never be in CCD on any given day unless someone invited me…
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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…