Category: Understanding the world

  • Why. (?) Science needs to be free!!

    I am just trying to reason with you it need be, it is a culture enough to find a path of least action, It’s a phenomena actually, so it must follow the most basic law before and after, with and without gravity, the principle of least action. We follow that which occurs to us and…

  • Liberal Hindu*** (A conversation with a great friend)

    My friend, Mr. Dash, Sir, I hope you have had a great Thursday. Please give Prime Minister Singh my best wishes. I thought it was a special day for Singh, birthday or something, then I Googled and on Wikipedia find that its 26 Sept 1932, good, because that’s the day I know someone else was…

  • Pockets of insecurity.

    Pockets of insecurity.

    Insecurity often breeds a resistance against change. When the ethics we live our lives by and ask others around us, to live by, allows us to contravene changes as unnecessary, not in our interest, or not of our own calling, we are vehement and critical of such changes. If our feelings are hard formed and…

  • Nature is a rule-book, immensely complex, gigantic and subtle …

    So we do live in a time, when quantum mechanics is actually not making it much into our psyche, given it’s a well carved out niche, on the slopes of which we are doing all our chores, yet not realize so, and given that we have taken into grant, some of its most ill quoted…

  • The Vedanta Syndrome of the political one upmanship

    The Vedanta Syndrome of the political one upmanship Let me cut my usual drama on some of my articles to the end and come straight to the point, where it concerns the true state of affairs of my native Odisha. As many of you know, those of you who read my articles and those who…