Category: Random moorings
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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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The time elasticity and the sense of time!
It is a common saying that we cannot experience something unless we do it ourselves. And this is very true in the context of time as well. Whenever we try to imagine some event that has happened in the past, we try to look it from the lens of our understanding of “time elasticity”. This…
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Beyond the obvious- the invisible reality!
Einstein once remarked that “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” And why go to far away to look for miracles, than ourselves? The human body, as it has been estimated, consists of 7 billion billion billion atoms (i.e. 7 followed by 27 zeros!).…
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An urban landscape captured by pigeons- jaaye to jaaye kahan!
When you stand in your balcony, amongst other beautiful things like greenery and gardens, you can’t help but notice one peculiar thing always without fail. That is, the presence of a ubiquitous species called pigeon. More specifically, it is the blue rock pigeon. Even if you do not recognize any bird species, you cannot deny…
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No utility of divergence in life, if not followed by convergence
There is a deep and fundamental underpinning to the concepts of divergence and convergence. It may sound a bit philosophical, but I will demonstrate that it is much more than being just philosophical and has immense practical significance. Divergence can be defined as breaking down something into small parts, then breaking down parts into sub-parts…
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The “South” masala recipe for super-duper hit movies
If you are NOT a big fan of “South Indian” larger than life comedy-action-drama thriller, then no need to scroll down and waste 5 precious minutes of your life! There is nothing new which I am going to talk about, other than reminiscing about the things that make these movies super-duper hit, and why these…
Anupam- The Dreamer 