Tag: humanity
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Does the “number” in the “Number of working hours” really matter?
Or there is something else that really matters! Since the Indian software giant founder Mr. Narayan Murthy advocated for 70-hour work week for young Indians to improve productivity at work and then the (in)famous L&T Chairman SN Subrahmanyan advocating for 90-hour work week even including on Sundays and then some entrepreneurs across the world suggesting…
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A world bereft of questions is no world!
Does God really exist? Why does the rainfall happen? How does the sun shine? Is the earth flat or round? Does the earth rotate around the sun or vice-versa? Why does the apple fall towards the ground? These are a few of the numerous questions that have intrigued humanity in the earlier times. And only…
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Does common (wo)man wants a war? OR War is an elitist idea?
Over the centuries of history of mankind, there have been numerous wars. The history is replete with examples of deadly wars fought from time to time, some of them well-documented in the history books. From the wars fought by Roman Empires, to the wars fought by Alexander the Great, to the wars waged by the…
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Human species- are we really the smartest or the dumbest?
I once read somewhere that we humans are a very strange species. As first, we cut trees and then make papers out of the tree bark, and then write “DON’T CUT TREES” on that paper itself. The problem here is not that we are not aware of the problems facing us. The actual problem is…
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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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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…
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Why everyone loves a free pap(rev)di!
But, how free should anything be free… Recently, lured by my craving to eat something good, I went to Bikanerwala outlet on a cold chilly evening and I ordered to pack 150 gm of Gajar Halwa. And as I stood near the counter, the person behind it started weighing the Gajar Halwa from a big…
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