Words

We speak for so long. We speak to so many people. We speak on so many things. I believe the amount of time spent in speaking would be second only to sleeping. Yet it is a travesty that we spend so little time in thinking about what we say and the effect that it [...]

Time Silo

It is about a year back. I am at Benares and am trying out a new beverage called ‘Tandaiyi’. It had been highly recommended and a friend of mine, Building, as we used to call him, took us to the specific shop which was supposed to sell the ‘best’ tandaiyi in town. It was a [...]

Experimentation

Reading a book by Feynman . He is conducting experiments. In the process he is trying to verify things which are supposedly basic, and hence taken for granted. There is this one time when he peers down a microscope and tries to understand the movements of a paramecium whose moments are attributed to randomness, devoid [...]

Amoeba

Ordinary day, ordinary year. Period.
What’s the difference,…people. Stones, object this and object that. And then there are people. People lie around, talk, haggle, mumble, among other things. Very little point in trying to understand the ‘why’ part of it. They exist with absolutely nothing specific. Some say survival. Reminds me of Keynes who says, “In [...]