The spiritual realm of ancient India has many layers, abstractions and contradictions. The meditation and ruminations over our epics tend to produce many philosophers who surprisingly asked original questions. On the other hand, the Abrahamic religions more or less “dictates” than being a fertile crescent for various ideologies. Abrahamic religions…

Reading, once rightly inculcated as a habit in the childhood itself, will make a person see the world through words. As a kid, I used to read all the children stories from whatever magazines and children's books I could. In the absence of any other visual/audio media its through words…

Contrary to the claims of many prominent atheists, there is incontrovertible evidence for the utility of religion. Religion acts as a framework to bring people together to follow some set of shared rituals and dogmatic beliefs. Many often, religions dwells in proving the veracity of its practices and customs. It…

Chronic stress keeps one in perpetual fight/flight mode. The heartbeat gets raised, muscles tightened, and the brains continuously scanning for any threats. One simply cannot relax. Our body cannot differentiate between a physical injury and a mental trauma caused by some catastrophe. One cannot properly eat, sleep cycle is severely…

One will never get out of depression, if he persists on being in the same mental condition after the depressive event. Irrespective of the catastrophe that caused depression, one has to admit the fact that some change is needed. Indefinite brooding into past or how one could have dealt with…

Sonority refers to the pleasantness of the words. Certain phoneme combinations in words have rhythmic nature that imparts it with an overall pleasantness. When a language is being born, the formulation of the components of the initial words i.e, the sound of each phonemes or syllables that combines to form…

Himalyan Pros 1. Can cruise at 80–90. Bike is smooth, stable and the engine has achieved the cruising speed. No vibration as such. Can keep all day long in this speed 2. Braking. Good braking with sufficient bite 3. Straight line stability. Bike is long. Has the tendancy to go straight. 4…

Do we think with words? Noam Chomsky opines that our thoughts happen with the words. If that is the case, a language less person would be severely constrained in his thinking. But recent studies find that there is something called unsymbolic thinking. Words are just a discrete representations of our…

One of the movies I genuinely liked is “The Peacemaker”, released 1997 starring Georege Clooney and Nicole Kidman. The plot revolves around a missing nuclear warhead in the Soviet Russia, and its tracing by the US security agencies. The plot takes an unexpected turn, linking one of the missing nuclear…