M Dash Foundation: C Cube Learning

Category: Understanding the world

  • Just a little philosophy

    Met a old fellow on a train 11 years ago. (No time travel, just reminiscing) He was dirty and his clothes were torn out. He explained to fellow passengers. What’s Philosophy? (The word for that in Sanskrit is “Darshan” which literally meant visible form or something like that, vision, anything related such as seeing something.) SO…

  • Doing Nothing !!!

    “Do nothing for 2 minutes ” Brian, I failed for the first time Lynda, Definition of doing ‘nothing’ is a difficult one – breathing, thinking, heart beating, digesting those things that I shouldn’t of eaten – can’t do it, that’s nothing that is! Brian, Good point; but here I believe ‘nothing’ means actions under your…

  • Our economic growth and our Inflation of ignorance are connected!!

    We live in a very well connected time. That’s what we often celebrate. We claim global connectivity on a distance and time scale that was never ever achieved before. SO that should mean cultures getting appreciated and wealth getting accumulated uniformly more or less, people coming across closer in their appreciation of a global community…

  • When does science interfere with good old philosophy!! Remarks and personal proclivities.

    “Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong. ” Richard Feynman   I still cannot resist myself from quoting Mr Feynman (the great RP Feynman) here is something else he said of philosophy in the context…

  • The economic red shift (intuitively)

    Why there is a shifting discrepancy in the economic development of different sections of the Indian society. For one thing this is quite observational as opposed to a sample study inference. And by observational I also mean something, which is quite intuitive but quite more subjective. And this I call a red shift, as there…