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January 8, 2014
The Dome of...
Ordinariness
The young men and women sitting in front of me, anticipating brighter futures and a present intoxicated with the verve of youth, might not be the same once they realize who they actually are. Realization of the higher self within one’s physiological bounds is indeed difficult due to the powerful influences from the external world. Every moment we are bombarded with statements such as “we, the ordinary...<![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]></div>
January 2, 2014
Three Extremely Rewarding...
New Year Resolutions
Image Courtesy: Google1. Alter your waking up time
When do you wake up each day? Change your time and make it fifteen to thirty minutes earlier. This will allow you to have a few gratifying early morning moments to live. Time early in the morning is ideal for Yoga, reading and jogging. This way you are raising your living standard a step higher each day.
2. Buy one book a month
Books are our doorway to the world of wisdom. Buying books are one of the best habits one can cult...
Image Courtesy: Google1. Alter your waking up timeWhen do you wake up each day? Change your time and make it fifteen to thirty minutes earlier. This will allow you to have a few gratifying early morning moments to live. Time early in the morning is ideal for Yoga, reading and jogging. This way you are raising your living standard a step higher each day.
2. Buy one book a month
Books are our doorway to the world of wisdom. Buying books are one of the best habits one can cult...
January 1, 2014
How to Unwind on New Year’s Day?
It seems everyone wants the New Year’s day to be perfect. It is as if ordinariness is accursed and undesirable. Whatever one does to make the New Year’s first day special, ordinariness creeps in, like an occasional uninvited guest. The bus we take to workplace, or college or school, the taxi driver we meet on the road, the parents who constantly nag about the failures we had the previous year until the very moment you read this article, and the crows that shit on our day while waiting for a b...
December 31, 2013
The One Exception to Secret Agenda
I have a secret agenda for 2014. Revealing the agenda is not my agenda here, now. However, I am making an exception to this one idea. You are about to read it.
Image Courtesy: GoogleAfter a pause of about three to four months of daily blog posts in The Indian Commentator, the thought rooted in my mind that I would definitely try to make my blog, once again, a 'daily' publishing space. This was not due to any pressure from readers to ‘either write or quit’. My readers have graced me with...
Image Courtesy: GoogleAfter a pause of about three to four months of daily blog posts in The Indian Commentator, the thought rooted in my mind that I would definitely try to make my blog, once again, a 'daily' publishing space. This was not due to any pressure from readers to ‘either write or quit’. My readers have graced me with...
December 25, 2013
Moses and Halan
A Story based on true events, about self-doubt and new beginning.
Image Courtesy: GoogleWhile Moses was resting under the shade of a date tree in the Sinai desert, in the evening sun and while the sea of people who followed him were preparing to take the day’s rest, Halan one among them, came to Moses.
Between them, a sense of communication hung in the air that both acknowledged and respected. The presence of the invisible, inaudible language made both realize that they needed each one to pond...
Image Courtesy: GoogleWhile Moses was resting under the shade of a date tree in the Sinai desert, in the evening sun and while the sea of people who followed him were preparing to take the day’s rest, Halan one among them, came to Moses.Between them, a sense of communication hung in the air that both acknowledged and respected. The presence of the invisible, inaudible language made both realize that they needed each one to pond...
December 2, 2013
What Stephen King Did to Me
Do you want to call it a true story? You are welcome.
SkeletonCrew was on my table when I woke up a week before, on a Sunday morning. I took it for the weakened reading. I read Mist, the novella that was made into a movie, by Dimension films. I could not finish it that weekend, so the novella took a serial treatment. Every night, I took down a few pages, just before going to sleep. Let me confess, Skeleton Crew is not for you, just before sleeping, if you do not entertain nightmares. It will...
SkeletonCrew was on my table when I woke up a week before, on a Sunday morning. I took it for the weakened reading. I read Mist, the novella that was made into a movie, by Dimension films. I could not finish it that weekend, so the novella took a serial treatment. Every night, I took down a few pages, just before going to sleep. Let me confess, Skeleton Crew is not for you, just before sleeping, if you do not entertain nightmares. It will...
November 14, 2013
Man’s Search for Meaning: a Book Review
“It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.”__Dr. Viktor E. Frankl (Man’s Search for Meaning)
Image Courtesy: GoogleIn Man’s Search For Meaning Dr. Viktor E. Frankl introduces his psychotherapeutic idea ‘Logotherapy’ and the events and revelations that led him into the practical realization of his hypotheses. The book has three parts: Part One: Experiences in a...<![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]></div>
Image Courtesy: GoogleIn Man’s Search For Meaning Dr. Viktor E. Frankl introduces his psychotherapeutic idea ‘Logotherapy’ and the events and revelations that led him into the practical realization of his hypotheses. The book has three parts: Part One: Experiences in a...<![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]></div>
November 12, 2013
Sachin; What’s in a Name?
Is it Shakespeare who asked:-
“What's in a name? that which we call a roseBy any other name would smell as sweet.”?Let me think.
Yes indeed, in his everlasting love story, Romeo and Juliet.
Image Courtesy:sports.ndtv.comBefore 1994, Sachin was a rare name in Kerala. It’s a north Indian name, and Keralites did not prefer trying it, ever before. Then something happened. The year between 1994 and 2000 coincided with the rise of a new religion in India, the land of all religions. Much like any oth...
“What's in a name? that which we call a roseBy any other name would smell as sweet.”?Let me think.
Yes indeed, in his everlasting love story, Romeo and Juliet.
Image Courtesy:sports.ndtv.comBefore 1994, Sachin was a rare name in Kerala. It’s a north Indian name, and Keralites did not prefer trying it, ever before. Then something happened. The year between 1994 and 2000 coincided with the rise of a new religion in India, the land of all religions. Much like any oth...
November 4, 2013
What Do You Fear?
Some of you might have gone through my recent post titled ‘What’s Meaningful For You?’. This was a short fiction in my attempt to extrapolate the significance of the few lines that struck me from the book
Man’s Search for Meaning
. Now I realize, there was more to it. It was not just about the meaning of a symbolic dream, but also about a strong enemy that often does some good to us all--fear. Fear seems to be the most primitive of human emotions, which often works as an alarm bell and r...
October 31, 2013
Future Past
Inthe past they said, the internet would overthrow books, newspapers, print magazines and printed textbooks and as a corollary, the publishing industry itself. Fact remains that matters are different now. I remember, still, as a child I was fascinated by the talk about computers that textbooks would be replaced by something like slates, with glossy screens—like ipads, but hell, back in the 90s, there were no ipads in real life. What would happen to newspapers and magazines? We speculated. Who...
