Intimacy, hormones, and fiction genres
Intimacy, hormones, and fiction genres What happens when, for instance, a trekker meets another trekker or a poet meets another poet or an artist comes across another artist or a movie-enthusiast meets another movie-fan or a tech-fanatic meets another gadget-lover or a traveler meets another travel-enthusiast or a married person meets another married person? They...
The Humans Defynd Interview
The Humans Defynd Interview #HumansDefynd #Interview Editorial comment: Arvind Passey is 25 years old. Well at least his life and style will make you think so. He’s got more energy than the average reader reading this, and he does more exciting stuff than the most exciting guy on your timeline. Time to meet him. 🙂...
Politics
They peer at me through a lens. They want to confirm if I am who I say I am and imagine that the retina has the final word. Even the technology resting in my hands insists that I trust the lens. They think my face is my fingerprint. As if fingerprints are alive and ready...
Curious minds create – Educated minds applaud
Walking down the road in a small city I came across a few school kids in a smart uniform wondering aloud if any of them could move large stone that was apparently too heavy for any one of them to lift. ‘This can’t be done even by a body-builder,’ said one. ‘Cranes can do it,’...
The Pokhran Explosions
Pokhran 1998 wasn’t just about a series of underground nuclear explosions to impress the world or to frighten and quieten our neighbours, but to work as a viable deterrent to outside powers as in the past 2500 years it has invariably been foreign invaders in the sub-continent not once but many times. What happened 20...
The truth as understood by a child
The mind soars and is convinced it is in the body of a bird. It zips and dives, swerves and glides, and hardly notices its reflection in the sea doing all that it is doing. The reflection smiles and reaches out as the mind comes zooming in. The mind then becomes a part of the...
Blogging is an irrepressible phenomenon
Blogging questions. Blogging answers. Blogging seeks readers. Blogging accepts affirmations. Blogging learns to live with rejections. Blogging transforms a blogger into an explorer. Blogging kindles hope. Blogging purges the negativity of moments. Blogging attracts attention. Blogging promotes ideas and sells products. Blogging reviews the world and all that is going on in it. Blogging embraces...
The joys of looking up
What no one realizes is that every point has the potential to be a low point and every spot can be a summit. There are plenty of summits lying under the ocean and we call them tipping points of depressions because the ocean floor is far deeper. A wave, for instance wouldn’t remain a wave...
Good education is like a great story
Education needs to be like a powerful weapon enabling a student to change the world. It must be a valid passport to a discerning student’s future, be an affordable investment imparting true learning, have all the right ingredients that inspire passion, and needs to be a vehicle to transport values and not simply facts. If...
Reasons why we must not hate corruption
Look around and try and spot areas where corruption has been in the headlines and is most talked about. From our judiciary to the police, from civil society to legislation, from natural resources to public services, from land administration to tax administration, from individuals who yield power to those who are powerless, corruption weaves them...
Understanding how to restart your life
What happened that morning is still fresh in my mind. I had got up with a lot of ideas that disguise themselves as dreams. Some of these ideas had also arranged themselves into sentences and I was eager to write all of them on my laptop before other activities decided to bully them into jumping...
Unconventional portrayal of Human-Nature interactions
Nature, like good branding, loves simple ideas. There are no complex routes prescribed, no obfuscating insights to master, no impossible-looking flow-charts dotting the path, and no shiny slogans cover them. For instance, if research shows that one-time-use plastics are harmful for the environment, a simple resolution to not use plastics by the common man is...
