Cribbing is our favorite past time. Even society thrives on it. Social psychologists, media, and marketers know about it, and that is why we are scared, sold cure for worries, pain. Be it a product, opinion, or feedback: we go after negatives before the positives. I wonder if the fault-finding gives some sense of pride. …
Category Archives: Random Thoughts
namdhari’s
I think I am in love with Namdhari’s vegetable chain. I tried growing all kinds of lettuce, it is bloody painful and consumes a lot of water. I remember Vinay introducing me to them. I am not sure if they serve outside Bangalore. Yesterday’s conversation with the store manager made me post/write this. I think …
cooking
I have started liking the activity of cooking much more. I will like it’s one more way of getting lost and being closer to self: A solitude worth trying and enjoying. I have lived most part of my life away from home, the bit of cooking I picked up has been seeing the mother in …
tide
Why do we get advised not to go against the tides or the default? History has it written all over from Henry Ford, Benjamin Franklin, Mahatma Gandhi, Wright Brothers, Ram Mohan Roy, and numerous others. Success requires luck and a lot of pain and sacrifice goes with the hard work. There is no guarantee at …
life
A lot many friends of mine think my view of seeing life is very pessimistic. I tend to disagree; I have read Arthur Schopenhauer and his philosophy of Pessimism. But at the same time, I do like the teachings of believe in Diogenes, the cynic philosopher, and Epictetus, the slave stoic philosopher. I like friends …
advice
Finding who you are from within, one piece of advice I have been telling everyone. It is easy to get lost in the external world or fall prey to the world shown by society. As Socrates said: acquiring self-knowledge and what J Krishnamurti said: finding who you are. These are not just philosophical sayings but …
development
I just returned from my hometown, a small district on the border of Nepal named Sitamarhi. The nearest airport for us was Patna, 85-90 km and, in past, it would take 5-6 hours to reach to Patna airport. The roads were unmaintained and, it had more potholes than roads. During monsoons, we had to be …
everything
It is easy to get lost in everything. Last few hours, I have been venting over how oligarchs are making us pay for their loot. I made my tax payment today. In the last 10 mins, I realized I wasted the last few hours. It is not something I can fight waste my time over. …
different
This time it’s different. Our media likes to publish now and then about the pandemic, pollution, or recession. We are told how our world is falling apart and, we should be prepared to build our own Noah’s Arch. We, humans, thrive on uncertainty. The dinosaurs disappeared, pandemic came, world war happened, we bounced back from …
feed
You can’t force-feed a donkey and make them a racehorse. The sooner we understand it, the better it will be for us. Knowing our blind spot and circle of competence can change the way we see our life and work. We are living in a world where externalities are governing us, the decisions of our …