I often say, “Do not rush to judge, for life has not tested you yet”. During a recent discussion, a friend criticized someone’s character and I silently to repeated this to myself as a reminder. It took me back to the height of the #MeToo movement, when someone we knew was fired for having an…
Back in Feb 2023 when ChatGPT hype was at its peak, I was asked about what I thought about this thing called artificial intelligence. My immediate response was that this is the beginning of dumbification of humanity. As AI continues to make inroads into our lives, my opinion on this has gotten stronger over the…
“The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step,” said Lao Tzu. It took me almost a decade from the time I had the idea of ‘theLie Llama’ and it took my co-host, Gunjan, and I about six months of deliberations to take the first step. Then it took us about four months…
I believe it was Ayn Rand who said that contradictions do not exist. It was an ‘a-ha’ moment for me when I first read this quote. This was also the principle behind my R-Quadrant. More recently, I have been pondering over the contradictions and the conflicted life we all live. Why is it that we…
During one of our treks in Nagarahole jungle, I came across a sight I had not seen earlier in my life. A tree that was twisted line a vine! The first thought that came to my mind was – here’s a tree that seems to be wanting to be a vine. Then I noticed a cluster of trees around…
The story, if it can be called such, was very poignant. It goes like this – A couple moved into a house that had the forest as its backyard. One day the man went for a walk in the forest and saw a branch full of chrysalis ready to metamorphosize into butterflies. He had read…
The year 2020 did not only put pause to the-world-as-we-knew-it but it also put a pause to my writing. Not that anybody reads what I write but lack of audience has never deterred me earlier… after all, I specialize in writing books that no one buys! I stopped making resolutions many years ago, when I…
One of my favorite authors, Robert A. Heinlein, said – Natural laws have no pity. His quote is a perfect addition to the assertion by Vedic texts that the universe is governed by ‘rta’ (laws). The recent outbreak of Coronavirus (a.k.a. COVID-19, in politically correct term) seem to prove both the above statements correct. While…
Few years ago, when I had purchased the car that came with built-in SiriusXM, I got a call from their salesperson. As she concluded the corporate sales pitch script very diligently, I asked, ‘… but why so serious?’ It dawned on her that I was playing with words when I chuckled and said, ‘Batman… Joker……
Decades ago, when I wrote an article with the same title for a (now defunct) e-zine, my focus was the immaturity and gullibility of Indian society; especially the youth. Growing up, I would see mobs of youth going on rampage at slightest provocation by religion, politics, social causes they believed in or to protest against…