Archive of An Unknown

Which is the best part of education? It is that teaches us habits that can change our lives, right! I learnt something of that sort in recent times and I have been jumping up and down in ecstasy after learning it - in last few weeks. What is that? Is insomnia an issue in your life? Are you someone who can't fall asleep as soon as you fall on your bed? If so, this is for you. It is the remnants of the thoughts from the day that doesn't allow people to sleep peacefully in the night. It is just like the background processes that run in a computer. Dr. Weil has a solution for this problem. It helps us fall asleep just like our computer that hibernates as soon as we press the power button without being worried about the processes running in the background (I can see that someone is controlling their urge to say, "No, it's not any Dr. Weil's. It's an invention of our own forefathers from thousands of years back". Whatever!). I want to share it here because I be...

The pain of separation is like that of skin disease...  The memories of togetherness are the fingers that scratch and soothe... Thanks to the three days of travel to Netherlands...

Heard it was International Mother Language Day today. I am not very fond of this kind of days that are celebrated every second day on calendar. But isn’t it good if that can result in something good?! That way, we shall welcome and celebrate this day. All over the world, most of the countries are language-based. So that makes those languages safe. India is perhaps the only big country, which has so many languages and so plural. I am not sure if we really understand the importance of plurality of a nation for it to remain one nation forever. For some reason, we Indians don’t understand that the right to learn, speak and be able to work in one’s own mother language is one of the top most fundamental rights. Most educated Indians think it’s narrow-mindedness to ask for education and job in mother language. India perhaps is the only nation on this planet that has such a colonial mentality even after so many decades of self-rule. On the other hand, these elitists think that we would becom...

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