I was watching this Video of Shashi Tharoor about British atrocities during 200 years of rule. After the video finished, Youtube suggested an hour-long video of his. After watching the video, I learned many more things about their LOOT, robbery. I ended up buying his book title: the era of darkness India was not only …
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others
How much of our life do we have to spend in pleasing others? Be it the aspiration of parents, lover, or a customer. Why do we have to bend down for winning over? There has to be a trade-off. It should not be a compromise. We have to understand we can not please everyone and …
answers
Can I tell them as things are? How will they react? Will it is rude, will I lose my friends? Do I always have to be likable, not say things as they are? Is friendship more important than truth? How painful will it be losing someone, disliked by someone? Some question in our life has …
illogical
Our minds and urges are illogical. It has resulted in many wars, deaths, and treacheries. The constant urge of what is next, the quest for finding the best results and endless search. Our holy texts are full of these occurrences. The messengers of god killed millions for religious supremacy. Many natives got killed and looted …
cinema
Modern-day cinema is a propaganda machine. They sell us to dream, hope and materialistic happiness. A 5-year-old knows about what is costly, and costly means good. The violence, macho and molestation showed on-screen gets applauded. What are we doing to our generation? Opening them up to drugs, nudity, hate, crime, and propaganda? During Hitler’s era, …
smart
I like a smart conversation, my friend said. It got me thinking for some time. What is a smart conversation? Talking about god and spiritualism to Athiest will be boring. Pious and god-fearing will find the same person smart and enjoy the discourse. So smart conversation is more about the likeness of the other person …
design doc
I understand many would have given advice do not worry about design doc in the early days of the product journey, focus on shipping features. I find this advice bullshit after a few years of product development. My experience suggests without the design doc from the very first day UI becomes a sandwich. Every new …
busy
We are living in an era where we are globally connected. We have gotten into a default busy state. Everyone around seems to have gotten busy in their own life, work and chores. Some of us are so busy that they don’t have time to spend with their loved ones, parents or siblings. Busy means …
traveler
Are we not a traveler? Are we not traveling in our thoughts and actions every moment? The actions and reactions of ours in a particular scenario, are they not accelerating or suspending our journey? Are we all not chasing our true north? Are we all not traveling to find the meaning of our life? The …
don’t die
A common theme with all the conversation is conserving runway for 18-24 months. In a tough time companies’ culture gets built. This is the time when the entire team comes together with a common goal of survival and riding in this tough time. The bottom line is not dying.