Deadly Comfort Zone During my small tenure in the software industry i have come to a frightening conclusion. That most of the industry and its people ofcourse, work in a zone which i prefer to call, with some meaningful irony, as The Deadly Comfort zone. Since the day of inception of any project till its delivery there occurs a continuous fall in learning and parallel rise in drudgery. Focus shifts from learning new things to...

Why should one try to be happy ! Heat is the degree of hotness or coldness of a body. Similarly happiness also has some degree. It is a measurable phenomenon, you can compare whether a person is happier or sadder than someone else. Thus it is something relative and thus must be some entity (need not be tangible) in the space time domain. Why do people say that one should try to be ever full...

Absence > Presence He is no more cries the son, relatives fall on their knees heads droop down, some eyes go watery while few others get dried up for ever. Some ask for forgiveness for whatever wrong they had done to him, while some resolve to live the way he wanted them to live. People feel empty and lost and peep through the window to see the body one last time. An emotional vacuum is...

Few pieces of code! I saw a movie last night, i robot was the name and i wonder the outcome!. The movie might not be packed with the best of special effects but it surely and strongly strikes a bell. A new range of robots is shown emerging which have started exhibiting glimpses of human emotions, the dialogs of the main scientist of the movie kept lingering in my mind, the time when man machine...

Why is cost cutting a really costly operation It is that earthquake which has a very negative epicenter. It sends tremors of negativism across the firm with the sole message that the firm is not doing good. Everybody in the firm knows that already then why should the firm make it so explicit! It also says that the company has gone so parochial in its vision that the only way to get the firm in...

If Chak De was the coming of age of Indian Cinema, OSO was certainly its journey back to infancy!! Mind IT!! For the entire movie farah khan tries to keep the viewers on their seats by reassuring that Picute abhi baki hai! but the viewers keep wondering what the "fish"!! is going on, then they hear that phrase for the last time only to realize that oh its done! Exaggerated emotions, senseless scenes, pathetic direction...

No faith I dare to say that many of the man made institutions to facilitate human interaction and well being are rather no more than fetters for man himself. Knowledge and its pursuit is rather an attempt to gain solitude and joy together! Friend circle for example binds you to align yourself to senseless and aimless whims of someone else, it develops a feeling of elusive dependence for no reason, and suddenly we need friends...

Why blog?! Sometimes i wonder why people like blogging. If you try and critically analyse, once someone has posted something all he is left with is a simple, though constant feeling of anticipation about how people will react to his post. Some people are generous enough to post new ideas, detailed studies and excellent excerpts on wonderful issues knowing fully well that this is rather a thankless job. Somebody might easily copy paste the material...

Take a different lane today Someone has taken a different route to office today, he goes through a lane, there is not much activity, most of the houses are empty. While walking he comes across gardens, abandoned of course, these unkept patches of land must have been blooming beauties at some time he thought. He lost all haste and is on a gentle amble now, Derelict houses broken shops, why are they empty he asks...

POWER OF WORDS Fearless India, is it yet another cricket story or chakde saga .. yes but i was prompted to write it not after srisanth's catch but what actually caught my attention was an article in Sunday times. Let euphoria fill the space of fear, enjoy the game and give it your best. These were the words of Dhoni to his men, despite the debacles in the current series, I admire the way words...

The myth of knowledge Science is man's pursuit of understanding the world around him. After numerous years and countless achievements are we anywhere close to decipher the miracles of nature. I donot think so! Only that the we have started to live with our incompetencies in doing so. Physics for example has "uncertainty" as one of its principles! Math says every number is a complex number ... a number that invariably has an "imaginary" part...

NEO JONATHAN SEAGULL Jonathan unmindful of the consequences has the reached the top and is about to dive in, to test his nerves and his love for flying. But no one has ever made the first jump!!! he crashes down the sea, water hits him like stone but hurts only his body and not his will to fly. He rises higher still, jumps again but this time not to fall but to feel a gust...

The greatest and probably the only true alchemist...TIME Alchemy is the predecessor of chemistry that sought to change a base metal (any base metal) to gold. Thats what time does ..with human metals. Of course the ways that it adopts donot appear to be of our liking and we seldom understand the detours it offers when we appear to move so smoothly over our path. Grinding is what gives shine to the diamond, I think...

From joint families to nuclear family to individualism what next do you want to die alone??!! Anything that is not in line with nature is made to get perished later on. Eons of civilisations, limitless extent of kingdoms emerged and found a worthy place in the annals of human history but what has remained? Their debris and nature's triumph. Is there anything nuclear in nature? Living beings are connected and hence made interdependent in the...

Let the music play Human ear accepts and interprets any signal that falls in the range of 20Hz to 20KHz. A fact that's well know but very rarely pondered over. Don't you think that this is too broad a range. We have FM channels like 102.4 , 98.3 and many such closely packed channels. This means that human radio has been purposely made capable to tune into tens of thousands of such channels. We hear...

Any perfect creation is essentially a perfect blend of opposites Morpheus: "Unbelievable isn't it?" Neo: Yes.... God! Trinity: .."What?" I used to eat there! Really good noodles. I have these memories from my life none of them happened, what does that mean. The Matrix cannot tell u who you are ... ...But an Oracle can??,,... That's DIFFERENT.... Oracle is also a program but it's programmed in a different way. It is designed to help the...

From chitrahaar to you tube... It wasn't that long back when we used to watch chitrahar especially during our exam days for some recreation. Wednesday 8pm used to be the slot for this very sought for serial. Internet used to be something really costly and restricted to only internet cafés ... floppy discs used to be treasured as a place to store loads of information! A speed around 48 kbps used to be so satisfying...

Universalism Gandhiji had adopted a non-violent nationalism and identified it with a sense of universalism. But that notion of identity has been defeated all together by the current state of rising feeling of sectarianism. Demagogues are rousing such sentiments and using them to sustain their own false sense of importance and power. However these netas are not the only one culpable, there are other reasons for the rise of such feelings. Globilisation and the information...

Hinduism Religion is the protocol that determines the flow of life. It is its duty to ensure that the flow is smooth, error free and continuous. Life in the world network exists in packets of various sizes and forms, human beings being one type of such packets. For these packets to flow properly religion provides some do's and don'ts. In absence of religion there are bound to be collisions. The idea of a sacred spiritual...

No where is now here!! "Sully, for shame!" Jonathan said in reproach, "and don't be foolish!What are we trying to practice every day? If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don't you...