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I happened to hear the most swear words and be called by the most swear words during my college years, especially the first year of engineering. Ragging was widespread in the college, the first year students were treated like slaves by the seniors, it was the custom there. The seniors would call us only using…

If you watch Hollywood movies, and if you are a fan of Brad Pitt, you will not forget the movie Fight Club, it is one of my favorite movies of Brad Pitt and the story was based on a novel called Fight Club written by Chuck Palahniuk. Palahniuk is a fine writer and yesterday after…

Today was quite a busy day and it was only by 3:30 that I happened to find a restaurant to have my lunch. It was a Tamil vegetarian restaurant. I asked for meals but they said they were out of those and advised me to have the tiffin. I know the guy, and asked him…

On many friend’s personal messages, today I’m sharing one of my synchronicity experiences… A few years back I was planning to take an apartment for rent in Kochi. By the time of the decision, I was travelling from Calicut to Kochi in a train called Jan Shatabdi Express, I was browsing many properties on the…

Today is the 63rd day of gratitude in the series. I use many hashtags but a set of hashtags are repeatedly used and one of them is #Synchronicity. A friend of mine asked me, “What does it mean?” So I thought I should write about Synchronicity today. Synchronicity has its roots in Greek, from syn…

We all experience gravity on Earth. It is a natural phenomenon by which all things with mass or energy, everything including the planet, stars, galaxies, even light are brought toward one another. Gravity is a physical connection between space and matter. It is also the reason why the Earth pulls everything towards itself. Any physical…

I felt like talking about the beauty of spontaneity today. There are instances when you need to respond, react, when you need to engage, talk, present. There are two options open to us – either we can prepare, we can practice and perform, or the other way is to understand the background, gather information, and…

The movie Troy is among my all-time favourites. It is based on Homer’s great poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. It is an account of the Trojan War between the Greeks and the Trojans. One of the characters in the epic, Nestor says, “This is the greatest war the world has ever seen and we…

Jalal ad-Din Muhammed Rumi was a 13th-century Persian scholar, poet, and Sufi mystic who transcended the life and customs of that time. Rumi’s thoughts, perceptions and poetry are timeless, they are relevant today and will be in the future too, I hope. They are universal, full of love, compassion, gratitude, devotion, humility, simplicity, beauty, and…

Recently I happened to watch a video of a science fiction writer and a screenwriter called Arthur C Clarke, an Englishman who envisioned the technological revolution that we experience today. It was in 1945 that he predicted the concept of geostationary satellites for a globally connected world of communication. In those days we were not…