Encyclopedia Brittanica is dead. We consider, using Brittanica as an example, the perception of authority in society and how the internet brings many more perspectives than what the official line allows.
Another Nail in Dravidian Race Myth
January 14, 2012 By 4 Comments
Sir Paul Nurse, Nobel Laureate, while investigating origins of his chromosome, stumbles upon genetic footprints that speak of evolution of modern man and the early migrations.
Alphabets – By Google
January 12, 2012 By 2 Comments
What if algorithm and commerce were to instruct our future. We use Google as a proxy, some interesting results.
How to become susceptible to creativity
January 5, 2012 By 2 Comments
How to become susceptible to creativity? What impels the creative impulse? Some thoughts on how creativity can be learnt or taught.
Immortal Wound
January 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Right reader of a good poem receives an immortal wound according to Robert Frost. Err, what wound?
Where will you be swept off to?
January 2, 2012 By 4 Comments
Mid last year I quit a full-time career for the startup world. Some thoughts on the journey.
To Create Anew or Propagate the Old?
September 28, 2011 By 4 Comments
Humans beings instinctively avoid danger. It is an evolutionary safe-guard nature has perfected over many million years. The careless dozing ape would become meal to the predator waiting on the ground. The ape-man who did not hunt, or forage, for food would die of hunger. But every species has not come this far without taking [...]
You Are Not A Genius..
September 26, 2011 By 3 Comments
..not at everything anyway. But guess what, it really does not matter. Average, even below average, skills will do. What matters is if your immediate circle is smarter than you, especially in the areas that you are weak. Stop whatever you are doing now and think how many people above, around and below you will [...]
Go Forth – Levi’s Campaign
September 22, 2011 By 9 Comments
Poetry, even when employed to peddle souped up nothing, still carries with it the majesty of the spheres it issues from. Like a flame in the cup of your hand, a thing so fragile, yet so rife with possibilities.
When Curiosity Dies..
May 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
..we have learnt to arrange events for ourselves in comfortable cause and effect buckets. When all is explained with the lens of our subjective interpretations, there is little else we allow to enter our purview. ..with it goes the joy of discovery and the enthusiasm for meaningful labor. What remains is a machine, that goes [...]
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