but not too deeply!
The people of Florida in the United States of America were in for a rude shock this morning when Hurricane Milton strengthened overnight from a category I storm to a category IV storm. Surprising as it was, what is more astonishing is that the storm’s eye is pretty small for a regular category IV storm and thus it is all […]
With the passage of time and the burden of responsibilities increasing on each and every one of us, I am sure that many among us, if not most, will identify with my experience of the inability to concentrate and to focus on a single task for a considerable period of time. Gone are the days when I could concentrate at […]
“For barbarism is always around civilization, amid it and beneath it, ready to engulf it by arms, or mass migration, or unchecked fertility. Barbarism is like the jungle; it never admits defeat; it waits patiently for centuries to recover the territory it has lost.”– Will Durant The Indian civilization may be said to be the only one of its ancient […]
A crucial aspect by which humans differ from all the other species on this Earth is our ability to communicate with each other through the use of language. A case can be made that many species of birds do possess something akin to a language with observed differences in their vocalisations within population groups of the same species, yet most […]
Some days ago I read an article in the newspaper that described how professors and teachers in colleges and universities worldwide were going back to giving exams and essays again in the handwritten format; to be turned in on paper rather than by email or in digital format, to combat the rising use of AI (Artificial Intelligence) tools being used […]
Writing is one of the joyful activities in our daily life and we are so used to it that we seldom stop and think about the complexity involved to execute the process of writing. Fine muscle control over the relevant muscles in our dominant hand honed in with years of practice allow us to effortlessly translate our thoughts into the […]
During a slow weekend afternoon spent in my office quarters in this idyllic country posting, I decided to go visit a nearby situated ruins of a nearly 500 year old temple. The added thrill of getting to ratchet up 100 kilometers on the odometer of my lumbering hunk of a motorcycle to reach the said ruins was, I will confess, […]
সেপটেম্বর ১৯৪৪ ইং। নাৎসি শাসিত নেদরল্যান্ডের এক অরণ্য। রাত্রি আনুমানিক আটটা হবে। স্বাভাবিকভাবে এই প্রদেশে এই সময় শান্তি বিরাজ করে। অরণ্যের আশেপাশে জনবসতি ও কম। যারা এইখানে পুরুষানুক্রমে বাস করে আসছে তারা শান্তি কালেই রাতের আগে আশ্রয়ের ঠাঁই নিয়ে নেয়, এই যুদ্ধকালিন পরিস্থিতিতে অরণ্যের ভেতরে তাদের চলাফেরার কথা চিন্তা করা তো দুরের কথা| আমি আমার মোটরসাইকেলের উপর চড়ে এই নিস্তব্ধ […]
The post-World War 2 world order is in a state of upheaval. The catalyst and index for the same could be said to be the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine and a war being fought therein. This blog post is not about that war but how India may soon find itself in a much similar scenario. The current conflict in […]
I have been an avid science fiction aficionado since around my early to mid-teens. What inspired me to start reading science fiction was the one and only fact that, somehow, I came upon the name of Isaac Asimov. As Asimov had himself said in one of his interviews that people would come up to him and ask whether Asimov was […]
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