Category: A figment of my mind
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Does India of tomorrow has a place for each and every aspiring “Alok” out there?
There is a little boy aged about 8 years. He lives in an orphanage in the outskirts of the city of Delhi, as his parents died in a car accident when he was very young. He was brought to the orphanage by a good samaritan and he has lived there since. He polishes shoes of…
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Is materialism the ultimate goal or there is something more?- The story of Mike
Mike is a 51-year old filthy-rich investment banker who lives in the USA. Mike has every material comfort of life- he lives in a self-owned mansion, drives a Ferrari car, has all the modern amenities in his home, uses only top-end Apple products and wears a diamond-studded Rolex watch. On top of this, he has…
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Self-reliance and self-sufficiency: The bane to world economy
A prelude to GDP vs GNH debate Sometime ago, I read a beautiful analogy of the economic activity and the associated circulation of money. Let me share that with you. The economy of the world, in general, and the economy of a country, in particular, wants you to buy a car instead of a bicycle!…
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The LCM and HCF of all religions
Let’s try to decode the mathematics of various religions by using simple class V mathematics. A disclaimer before I start- I claim no expertise in this subject area, but here we discuss the basic commonsensical things that everyone already knows and can easily understand. LCM stands for Least Common Multiple and it is the smallest…
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Active citizen or a passive cynic- not a choice anymore!
In earlier times, when there was an era of monarchy, the people (actually ‘subjects’) were dependent on the king or the queen for their basic needs like food, water, education, security etc. They had virtually no say in the governance of the kingdom. If the monarch was a generous, wise and judicious person, the people…
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Theory and practical: mutually exclusive or a cyclical loop?
We have often heard from the people who have done hard work all their life at the ground level that practical knowledge is everything! All theoretical knowledge according to them is just for getting a college degree, which has no meaning in real life. At the other end of spectrum are the people, although in…
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Looking beyond a world of binaries!
Mathematics is an interesting subject. Often, it may seem as difficult to many (including myself), yet the vistas of understanding that the science of mathematics has unravelled to the humanity is just unparalleled. Nothing worthwhile in this world could be understood without the concepts of mathematics. Even all the other sciences like physics, chemistry ,…
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Let there be a war, an eternal war- albeit of a different sort!
In the animal world, whenever any individual animal or a group of animals has(ve) to prove dominance over the other individual animal or a group of animals, there is only one way! No brownie points for guessing- it is the WAR and only WAR! War or synonymously violence, is their only mechanism to resolve the…
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Water, water everywhere. Not a drop to drink!
Of all the issues that I hold dear to my heart on the subject of sustainability, water availability, conservation and its proper usage is a special one. On the face of it, it may seem a very trivial issue to many, but somehow it is not as trivial as it seems and no one should…
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Traditions and modernism OR traditions vs. modernism- that is the question!
We live in the self-proclaimed age of modernism. And we (here ‘we’ denotes humanity collectively) believe ourselves to be the most modern and most advanced of any of the human generations that have ever existed on this planet. After all, we all have studied “Darwin theory of evolution” in our schools, and therefore we believe…
Anupam- The Dreamer 