Category: Life
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What the Air Cooler Taught Me About Acceptance
Summers are really dry and hot in Pune. Two weeks ago I decided to buy an air cooler. There was a small temptation to invest in an air-conditioner but that idea was soon killed by the quantum of financial outlay and logic. Buying a cooler was easy on the pocket and easy on the logistical…
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Gym 102 : Heartbeats!
Today I was surely beating at 160 BPM at the functional training . It is the intensity which I am afraid of. Are our hearts designed to pump at 160 beats per minute for 45 minutes straight? I can’t really imagine the scenarios during our evolution where we apes were forced to go through such…
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Of Job Hopping
You have only been serving your present organization for a year , why you are seeking a change? I usually don’t have a good answer for the obvious question above. I wish I could answer this question with the following arguments: A. How does that matter? Maybe my current organization is not so good at…
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About Kids and Certitude and why certitude is limiting
Last week I visited my native place, a village where my father has built a small house. Our only neighbors are a small family of four ; parents and their two kids, 7 year old boy and 9 year old girl. To cut the long story short, after they came to know about my existence…
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The Bad and the Good
We fight between good and bad. And then to strike a balance we say the two are relative. Some go even further to prove a point that we harbor both the devil and the angel. Make a quick list of all the bad things we are not supposed to do as humans. Here is an…
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Post-Puberty Atheism
As I was nearing my late 20’s, I realized that my rationality had boundaries. The foundation of so called atheism which I tried to build all through my late teens to mid twenties began to shake. Some inexplicable events pushed me to give some benefit of doubt to the concept of god.My brain fatigued dealing…
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You can only laugh so much!
I really don’t know why and when in the human evolution curve people really begin to laugh. Same thing goes for crying, how people could really express their sorrow by making that face? But I believe, one can cry for an extended duration. Which means, people can sustain crying for a really long time like…
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Value Conflicts
I always thought that good and bad values are relative concepts but I never came to a strong rationale or understanding of how to reason and explain the relativity between the two. But yesterday after watching some documentaries on the Crusades, I could draw some inferences.The framework to understand value conflicts was not so complicated…
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Who Will Win in the Sharing Economy?
It had taken me a while to spot my Uber cab. “ Location pey aao” doesn’t work so well at the airport. Then the driver tells me to wait at pick-up point D. No sign of him for the next few minutes.Just when I thought he might have canceled the ride , I spot the…
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