Fragments of a Bittersweet Past

Confessions, confessions. A train of thought just got opened up in my mind now because of this song, and I couldn’t refrain from writing about it. I remembered old, musty days that were locked up in the cupboard upstairs between my ears, which seemed to have popped out now, because I raked up the old [...]

Quotes on Vegetarianism

“Nonviolence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all living beings, we are all savages.”
Thomas Edison, inventor
“A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher’s stall passes as food!”
J. [...]

Updates

So here I am in New York (not the city, unfortunately and fortunately). It’s another project, and I have been here for a few weeks now. The culture out here is very different from where I worked before this, and I must say I have been having some fun here – the work is right [...]

Souvenir

I discovered an old souvenir that my grandfather gave me, when packing to move to New York. I am going there on a new project. My grandfather scribbled in his near illegible handwriting, but in perfect English, on a half-torn, white, LML Limited envelope. Inside this envelope, marked 20.2.2007, was a five hundred rupee note, [...]

Intellectual Failures

At twenty three, I learnt all about logical fallacies, from my little room in Bangalore, dedicating time to learn argumentative logic each evening for a couple of weeks. The fascination with logic and logical fallacies always remained strong, since sifting out untruths is sometimes as important as gaining access to a truth.
At twenty five, I [...]