How do people die? And how do species get extinct? We need to think carefully…
Category Archives: Science and Social
Blog 14 : Learning from Bacteria
“The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself” – Sun Tzu
This article is an attempt to link these viruses to the recent Nobel Prize winners for Chemistry for 2020.
Blog 13: Choose to be a story of Ashlee Vance or Kangana Ranaut…a Vazeer or a Pawn? ?
We blame the system and the flaws, favouritism, nepotism, bureaucracy and so on, and brood over it. OR we face it, persistently work towards it, become extremely self-reliant, confident and a successful personality; which nobody can ignore. ..!! Choice is ours.. and is obvious..!!
Blog 10 – Two Stories : Confluence of school of thoughts
Let me tell you 2 different stories today. These are independent stories, but are phenomenally linked together. Our brain works in a funny way. It actually fires in random.. and in that sense, each one of us is born creative..!
Blog 9: Gabbar Singh, Sholay, Organised Crime and Corona Virus..!!
In India, our beloved Prime Minister, is like a Thakur is trying hard to deal with this awful pandemic situation of Corona Virus. He has to guard his own Ramgarh (India) from the invasion of Gabbar Singh (the Corona virus). 22nd March is one of such “The Day”. Let us try to kill Gabbar, by helping Veeru and Jai to enter the fort of Gabbar and kill all his entourage along with Sambha….!!
Blog 8: “Dear Zindagi” and mutual induction
The character of Shahrukh Khan in this movie changes, due to his own therapy and its effect on his patient, Alia..! The only condition is that the acquaintance has to be friendlier and there has to be a connection between two personalities, to make this magic work. This can happen between two close friends, or between two people who are able to connect to each other, at an intellectual level, very well. Just as the induced current in a conductor changes the original character of the coil..!
Blog 7: Grain Boundaries and State Boundaries: An operational simile!
Every country is like a polycrystalline material, I thought..
Every state is like a grain, comprising of people of similar types (like atoms in a grain).
A material can be made to work in its best performance mode by handling the grain boundaries properly and ensuring that these boundaries are minimal. Same way, a country can run with best economy of the inter-state politics is kept minimal and people think alike..!!
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