Last week was fun reading “Matt Ridley: Genome” book. The book talks about our building block: Gnome. There are too many things to unpack from the book, one being we all in the animal kingdom has the same source. The other thing author talks about is how newer technology like gene editing will cure many …
Author Archives: Atul
learning
Life is a never-ending learning process. Whatever happens to us: good, bad, or ugly; it teaches us and cements us for a better tomorrow. Once the learning stops, our will to live starts deteriorating. Remember all the fights you were part of the college football team, siblings, friends, or ex-lover. They must have taught you …
slow
We are so much in a hurry that we have forgotten the joy of slow. We grew up in the era of pen friends and priced international calls or Internet usage and connections. It required lots of thinking, and we had content to converse over. We are overburdened with mobile notifications with less substance to …
crowd
Our urge to know everything, be part of every conversation and accomplish as much as possible in a shorter time is making us clueless and miserable. The virtue of mastering one thing and making a life out of it is undervalued. Like hoarding furniture, clothes, or gadgets, we feed our brains with too much information …
simple
I feel happy reading tech or medical books and journals that simplify content for non-core users. I am currently reading Matt Ridley: Gnome and Body on fire: Monica Aggarwal, Jyothi Rao. One talks about human GNOME and the other about how what we are eating is making us sick. I liked the simplicity with which …
World
The more and more I see war in Russia-Ukraine, the more I feel sad. It gives a clear indication of a divided world. One side is NATO and US, and the other is Russia. The sudden need for weapons has increased, and nations like Germany are increasing their Defence budget, buying more weapons from the …
U-turn
So, are we moving on, asked Shreya?As if we have any other option, replied Sanjay. Shreya got admitted to a college in the US and wanted to reboot her life. She had no time for long-distance relationships. Sanjay stayed in India to build a non-profit providing education to unprivileged kids. They were together from the …
Thank you list
We all make a bucket list. How about we also make a list and keep it near us of all the things we are thankful for. Born in India Great parents and siblings Amazing teachers and education Friends who are to give shoulders in pain Great team to work with. Mentors guiding and showing the …
Ashtavakra-Gita
I was reading Ashtavakra-Gita yesterday. Thanks to Nirajan for recommending me. It is a 60-page discourse between King Janak and his guru Ashtavakra. I found the section on Bondage and Liberation hitting hard to me. I felt like sharing the same here. When the mind desires or grieves things, accepts or rejects things, is pleased …
health
“You are what you eat.”, said a doctor friend to me last week. We are living in a different world post COVID. Some of us are on Long COVID. Its cure is still under process. It has made us take our minds and body more seriously. As we age, we are only deteriorating on the …