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Category Archives: Think About It
Race Trace
Anything is possible when you are young. Then you get older and the thing about getting older is that you don’t need everything to be possible anymore, you just need some things to be certain. For some reason, this line … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Think About It
Tagged Brick Lane, effort, Ego, expectations, luck, motivation, purpose
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Collective bargain
“The way they speak about dinosaurs now, a few years later, that’s how they will talk about the mill workers”, says a character in City of Gold, a Hindi film by Mahesh Manjrekar, adapted from a play by Jayant Pawar. … Continue reading
Posted in Bollywood, Think About It, Yesterday
Tagged Bombay, City of Gold, collective, Great Bombay Textile Strike, legacy, Mahesh Manjrekar
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Moth-eaten
The Mothman Prophecies, a 2002 film (based on a 1975 book, which is supposedly based on real events!) starring Richard Gere, is about a town that has several people experiencing paranormal events. Gere tries to get to the bottom of … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Think About It
Tagged brain, cockroach, Faith, God, meaning, mysteries, purpose, The Mothman Prophecies
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Back to eternity
Despite being a Star Trek fan, I happen to think that Time is the final frontier, at least in the horizon that I can see. I find it quite intriguing that, though it might be looked on as a tool … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Think About It, Yesterday
Tagged consciousness, Foursquare, God, information, Isaac Asimov, Kahlil Gibran, Lifenaut, Pico Iyer, technology, The Last Question, Time, twitter
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Purpose Purporting
Purpose. I remember bringing this up earlier in ‘Coincide‘ and mentioning that different life stages manage to give us short term purposes which leave little time for this line of questioning – a larger purpose of life itself. Like I … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Life, Think About It
Tagged Aaram Thamburan, Aqualung, detachment, ICQ, Karma Yoga, karmayogi, legacy, Mohanlal, motivation, purpose, rat race, Something to believe in, Yesudas
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Storied
The best thing about buying second hand books is that they might contain stories. No, I haven’t completely lost it, I meant additional stories. Messages, notes on the side, bookmarks from previous owners – they’re all stories. Stories that give … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Religion, Think About It
Tagged Abandon, Books, creation, God, perceptions, Pico Iyer
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Watermark
Sometime back, while trying recollect the name of a Chinese restaurant in Koramangala which existed circa 2003, I got stuck. Despite different mashups of the various terms used typically for Chinese restaurant names, nothing sounded right. It was a small … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Think About It, Yesterday
Tagged Garden State, Island Express, Kerala Cafe, lifestream, memories, Pakal Nakshatrangal, Szechuan Garden
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Only time will tell…
My reading list during the Sikkim trip consisted of “The Immortals of Meluha” and “Chasing the Monk’s shadow”, fiction and non fiction respectively. Sometime during the trip, I completed the former, the latter was completed long after the trip. The … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Think About It, Travel
Tagged Chasing the Monk's shadow, History, perspective, Shiva, The Immortals of Meluha, Time, Xuanzang
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Coincide
A friend of mine, Soubhagya, is an avid photographer, who, despite my best efforts, still shies away from running his own photoblog. So when he asked me to take part in a writing experiment, I thought it would be a … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Think About It
Tagged burnt out, candle, currency, Money, photo, Soubhagya, value
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Facet
Facebook’s policy changes a while back meant that suddenly, the average user (as opposed to the technophile and conspiracy theorist) is raising an eyebrow, or both, depending on knowledge levels, at what it means to his privacy. This is not … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Life, Social Networking, Think About It
Tagged data, David Bond, Facebook, likes, personality, privacy, Schmidt
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