Archive of An Unknown

My dear friend and brother Purushothaman, In next few hours, you would have physically left all of us. But you will live in many of our hearts forever. We may not be able to retain the same pain and distress forever but all of us will keep thinking of you very often or some of us at least once in a while. Everyone will have their own reason to remember you. I have mine as well. Personally, for me, this is the closest untimely death I have seen in my life. Most of us would have had an experience of losing a close friend in school days. But I have never had one. You are not my childhood friend, you are not my school mate, you are not my college mate, or you are not even my bachelorhood friend. However, you had a better place in my heart than many of those friends. The only reason for that is, your innocence and credulity. That is the reason why I had an opportunity to stay with you during my last couple of weeks in Singapore after leaving my family in India. It’s those two weeks of c...

I see a good business opportunity for Facebook and Google. All over the world, all the most important news are hidden by the useless noise created by the paid media. Today, individuals use Facebook and other social media to bring out some of those news that are consciously ignored or suppressed by the media. Going one step ahead, what Facebook and Google can do in future is that they can systematically bring out those news in a much more structured manner and publish them to their users so that the real important news would come out and those who make their living out of lying will lose their relevance slowly. It may not be possible overnight though. With sustained effort, they can make it possible! Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai - Are you game???

Just finished Freud's "Dream Psychology"... The summary of the book is: 1. It's not for easy reading. The subject is an interesting one but it can be dry and boring if we are not in the right frame of mind to read it. 2. He says that though we have been taught to believe from ancient times that dreams tell us something about future as well, the fact is it's only about our past and how we have processed them on the day before. He doesn't rule out seeing future through dreams but advocates that it's still a result of processing of the past events. 3. Dream is just a wish fulfillment process. What we were not able to get fulfilled will come as dream in a distorted format to make us feel fulfilled. There are many wishes that our unconscious has but the fore-conscious suppresses them due to the societal conditioning, as a result of which they come out in dreams. 4. He is 'the' first one or one of the first few to talk about multiple layers of con...

Felt bad for the deers Cursed the nature For tigers being stronger Confused now Looking at statistics Who has the risk of getting extinct? Is it the tigers? Who kill deers for food... Is it the deers? Who get killed by tigers for food... Then... Who really is stronger? What really is strength? * Written sometime in 2005

No more rooster crowing dawns Now it's all timepiece alarms No more innocent people around Who come screaming to help Even if slipped on a stone... The more civilized people here Just shed a sympathetic look And move on unmoved Even if hit by a car! Looks like The air pollution And noise pollution Have damaged their hearts! Everyone has their commitments So no one can take deviations I have always wondered Why only country brute and no city brute Why only urbane and no rurale When villagers are way better in humanity The Indian answer to the English questions is... Because... there is no indecency of inquiring caste here! Then... long live urbanism! * Wrote after my first week in Chennai in May 98.

* Written 13 years back... Everyone wants to somehow get into a government job these days. Somehow! If they run from pillar to post, identify an influential politician, fall on his feet, pay him some huge amount and get into a government job, they don't have to worry about anything forever. Forever! Reasons are many. 1. Work or not work... salary is assured. 2. You can cheat the society by speaking communism and employee welfare while leading a peaceful life. 3. A government job will fetch plenty of dowry. There is no respect for hard work here. The capitalists have looted the country and made it a waste land in last 50 years. Some of the saviors of working class take huge bribes from their industrialist enemies and play their double games so flawlessly. They lead luxurious lives inside and are respected for their simplicity by their followers outside. Next... the teachers... Some of them are worse than the industrialists. Since things like financing to fellow teachers,...

The class teacher asked me In fifth standard What do you want to be When you grow up? I said When I become big I want to become a scientist Who makes rockets and atom bombs The tender dream From my fifth standard days Got realized now In a crackers factory In the next street My dear countrymen Tell me one thing In a country  That has so much child labors How do you say  That old age homes alone are a sin? * From the 1998 diary...