Violence and Human Society

It is instructive to think of human society these days to be evolving to a period of greater collusion, with tendencies towards violence distributed evenly in societies, rather than grouped into certain conflit zones. This defies the data we have available presently on areas like the West Bank, The Gaza Strip, Iraq and Afghanistan/Pakistan, but [...]

Trauma, Survival and Thought

Tests of faith usually are tests of faith in oneself. Sometimes, though, tests of faith can become tests of the truth. How strongly are we willing to stand by the truth in trying times? Does standing by the truth include a constant examination of aspects of the self, so as to absolve oneself of all [...]

Gattaca, Identity, Dreams and Perfection

Two of my good friends, years ago, in college, discussed this movie called Gattaca as being interesting. I was curious what it was all about but never got around to watching it. Thanks to Netflix, I did see Gattaca last week. True to their words, it was interesting and much better than I had imagined [...]

Tibet’s Future

I saw a moving documentary on the plight of the people of Tibet recently. I am utterly convinced that there are few things about the Chinese occupation of Tibet that seem legal or beneficial to the people of Tibet. Socialist China’s policies on religion do not favour the Tibetian way of life. Tibet, for long, [...]

Self-Contradictory, Dichotomous and Dangerous

Questions of identity are some of the oldest questions of all Mankind. Questions of identity spur the essentials of all philosophy. Questions about oneself, one’s environment, one’s likes and dislikes and one’s relationship with others were more fundamental than most questions that came afterwards. Ruminating on these aspects of identity and finding reasons for these [...]