I was clearing the immigration at Viru Viru International Airport, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, and it seemed like a normal day. Little did I know that it was going to be anything, but I was ‘welcomed’ by the International Criminal Police Organization, or I.C.P.O., popularly known as Interpol. It was my maiden face-to-face with the internationalContinue reading “Bolivian Snippets”
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Balancing The Life
Many a time, I come across people who complain that they do not have a balanced life. While chatting with a friend, he lamented, “I am not able to find equanimity in life, for I can not strike work-life balance.” I probed, “Will you have equanimity if you are able to do a balancing actContinue reading “Balancing The Life”
Peruvian Pages
In Latin America, Peru is the country that I visited maximum number of times, seven visits. And incidentally, it is also the country that I liked the most from a plethora of countries which I visited as part of my job from 2004. My maiden visit to Peru was in 2008, and I fell inContinue reading “Peruvian Pages”
Some Healthy Thoughts
A drive from my home village, Chavara Thekkumbhagom in Kollam district, Kerala, India, to another city, Cochin, where I did my graduation and had settled down now, is a 3-hr journey. During such a drive recently, I gave way to more than 10 speeding-ambulances each in either way!! There were not many ambulances on theContinue reading “Some Healthy Thoughts”
Global Warming, Antarctica and My Village
I was born in a village named “Chavara Thekkumbhagom” in the Kollam district of Kerala, India. It is an island, and my home is on the bank of a brackish water body called “Chavara Kayal,” which is an offshoot of a bigger “Ashttamudi Kayal” that estuaries with the Arabian Sea. The Arabian Sea connects toContinue reading “Global Warming, Antarctica and My Village”
Some Physics and Biology of Living A Life of Positivity and Youthfulness
Space is a significant physical factor that plays a dominant role in deciding physical properties of matter — what is there in a given space and how they behave within that space under certain conditions. If we adapt this concept of space to understand human attitude, space is our Intellectual Sum, or I.S. and thatContinue reading “Some Physics and Biology of Living A Life of Positivity and Youthfulness”
Ideological Limitations
It is hard to find anyone who does not follow an ideology. We are born with no ideology, but as we grow up, we are bound to get tied up — or down? — with one or other ideology. And this is a natural course that our social upbringing takes us through. However, following anContinue reading “Ideological Limitations”
A Possible Way to “Nothing is Impossible”
You would have used this adage, “Nothing is impossible” at least once in your life; I did it many a time. What do these three words mean? A straight answer: Everything is possible. But if you think a bit more, you will get a better answer that there is no problem which evades a solution.Continue reading “A Possible Way to “Nothing is Impossible””
Happiness
Someone asked me how to be happy in life. I told him to do good things without expecting anything in return. He did not leave me, saying that good and bad are relative terms and that it is difficult to differentiate good from bad. I explained to him that any action of ours that generatesContinue reading “Happiness”
Bits and Bytes from Mexico City
As part of my job, I was in Mexico City, the capital of Mexico, for the last five day. The city has a population of 8.80 million, so one can find many people on the road but not like the waves of people in Mumbai or Shanghai. I had a long haul journey of 30Continue reading “Bits and Bytes from Mexico City”
From Short Temper to Maturity
One of the shortcomings I confront in life is short temper. Everyone wishes to have maturity, the diametrically opposite of short temper. How can one overcome short temper and be a matured person? To find answer to this question, we need to understand what exactly short temper and maturity are. Short temper is the impulsiveContinue reading “From Short Temper to Maturity”
Curiosity
Curiosity is probably the most valuable boon that man is blessed with, for without curiosity we stand still and stagnated. Curiosity is that what took the hunter-gatherer Homo Sapiens of more than 90000 years old to the present-day Artificial-Intelligence-producing man. All the inventions and discoveries that mankind had seen were the results of the effortContinue reading “Curiosity”
Choose Erase Over Delete
Delete and erase are two words that the computer-world had given to me to ponder over. Prima facie they sound the same, but technically and meaningfully they are not. When we were students, we had pencil, rubber and eraser; not pencil, rubber and deleter. Why eraser, not deleter? I searched in vain for the word:Continue reading “Choose Erase Over Delete”
Arm’s-Length
We shake hands with people when we meet them as a matter of courtesy but do not embrace them; we do not embrace even acquaintances but only shake their hands. And embrace is reserved for friends who are intimate and who, we trust, will not do any harm to us. So the phrase of arm’s-lengthContinue reading “Arm’s-Length”
Advertising Hoodwinks
Honesty is most tested when it is least demanded. When I want to hear lies, I watch TV adverts; there are plenty for indigestion: an advert showing a man wearing a boxer short, jumping from a multi-storeyed building and landing perfectly in a car which is ready to be driven by a blonde. Wow, theContinue reading “Advertising Hoodwinks”
About Me
I believe in the ideology of truth that gives me freedom to be human without inhibitions. Universal brotherhood is my religion, and righteousness is the yardstick I use to evaluate me and others. I wish only good things for others.Also, being sensitive to human sufferings is a part of my being.
Nowhere Perspectives 