The Rational Perspective

      The Earth started fresh a circle around the Sun. For many of us this brings in a wonderful psychological push to start a new resolution for example - I will start writing a diary from 1st January 2023 or I will start focusing on my personal grooming from the first day etc. But do we really need to wait for an occasion like that which of course comes once in a year to set a positive push? Let us figure this out. Why does it feels likely to work when we set something as a New Year Resolution?      For the answer of this question let me give you an insight from Mahabharata. Lord Krishna while convincing Arjuna for the war explained that "Your Mind is like the five horses of the chariot which guides and powers the progress in your life. Thus unless these horses are controlled and guided by the charioteer named "Conscious", it will flow you away to the unknown path."  This is one of those important lessons to carry with us from Mahabharata. If we try ...

      It's been over an year with one of the biggest pandemics in the history of mankind and the only way we can reach back to the normal world is after 100% vaccination of the whole population. There are trends of a new normal like - having your half a face covered with mask in public, online education, working from home, weekend curbs or night curbs, not having a social gathering, zoom meetings, video calls and so on.      When we talk about a long term impact of the pandemic there are both positives and negatives. Let's start with the positive ones first. I can see a drastic change in the mentality of the society towards health and hygiene. The main driver of the change became washing hands. We Indians were too lazy or ignorant about this particular aspect prior pandemic, I have barely seen anybody using hand sanitizers including myself. The only time I used to wash my hands with soap was before a meal. Many skipped that too😂. However nowadays I can see...

     Responsibility is a very heavy concept as it is one of the fundamentals of life. In general, there are two major types of responsibilities. The first one is the Social Responsibility, but if I start talking about that, it is a whole new topic and this blog will not be enough to cover that up. So, let's not talk about that here. The more important is the second one i.e. Personal Responsibility or in other words, the responsibility of an individual about his or her own life.       Why I said more important? There are a lot of things which are directly or indirectly dependent on how responsible an individual is about his or her personal life, as Mr. Gandhi rightly said, "if you want to change the world, start with yourself". These days the sense of personal responsibility is forgotten by youngsters of our age which automatically affects the world, the country, and the society we are living in. Now, we will see what exactly is happening.    ...

      5095 active  cases when I have started writing this blog, it's been over 15 days in the lockdown, the next few days are very important for us. I hope we are understanding the seriousness of the situation. What I have seen around, people didn't realize the seriousness unless it reaches their door. As Mr. Prime Minister said it's a different kind of war and we all are part of it, so being irresponsible is not an option.       We have to first focus on certain points, that I guess most of you if not all must be noticing.  We have to admit that the devil has reached our doors. We have been seeing it first in Wuhan, then in Iran, then in Italy, France, Spain, the US. Now it's here. People are chilling out like they are on a vacation, breaking the social distancing rule and discussing senseless stuff coming together. I mean what? We have more population in some states than many of the western countries. As the Indian guy from Italy saying ...

There was a time when there were no phones, computers, television. The only way to express was to writing it down on paper and the only way to gain knowledge of anything was to read. Then the question is, how suddenly the medium of expressing stuff has been minimized just on 30 seconds status videos or 2-line memes and how does the source of knowledge have been reduced to Facebook newsfeeds and WhatsApp forwards? The answer lies in the pattern of lifestyle that we are living in. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Tik Tok became an integral part of our lives, everyone has their accounts on at least one of these social media sites. We have the habit of reading stuff coming in the feeds, perhaps that became the only source of general awareness for us. We get to know about a rape case from a R.I.P. post, a countrywide protest from a religious or pro-politics page, a gold medal winner for the country from some other page. So that's sorted, there is nothing wrong in it, we at least get t...

      Radicalisation is the 'Ravana' of the modern world. What we are seeing today, is a technologically advanced but morally backward world. Religious extremism, communal riots, discrimination, on the basis of caste, gender, social status, be it anything, are nothing but an example of a sick mentality.      Radicalisation has a vast definition but in simple words, radicalisation is nothing but adopting an extreme stand or ideas based on the religious ideals and aspiration. The major cause of global terrorism is nothing but an outcome of radicalisation or religious extremism in other words. The root cause behind the origin of any religion apart from the spiritual aspect was to transform our uncivilised ancestors into civilised human beings. Whosoever according to the stories started that particular religion, had the purpose of keeping all the population under a certain law so that there will be a discipline among these people. The same job is done by con...