Posts from the philosophy category.
They tried to bury me under the weight,I turned the dirt into a door and a gate.Every word that cut, every lie they said,I wore them like armor and moved ahead.I fell to my knees but I learned to stand,Took every scar and built with my hands.What was meant to break me only made me stronger,They wanted me shattered. But I lasted longer.
Most of us have heard of the double slit experiment.As a refresher, here it is - You fire electrons, one at a time, at a plate with two slits cut into it. Behind the plate is a screen. Common sense says each electron goes through one slit or the other (its a particle), and you should end up with two bands on the screen. Like spray paint through two open windows.That is NOT what you get. You get ma...
There are some questions that are asked because we don’t know the answer.And then there are questions we ask because we are afraid of what the answer might mean.Am I a Dalit? belongs to the second category.Vijhay Sundar K.G.’s novel begins in a world where caste is not an abstract idea discussed in textbooks. It is present in families, relationships, social behaviour, humiliation and the choices p...
There is a strange problem with legends.We meet them too late.By the time we hear their names, the transformation has already happened. The doubts have disappeared. The mistakes have been edited out. The person has become a symbol.Parashurama is one of those figures.We know the axe.We know the anger.We know the warrior.But who was Rama before he became Parashurama?That is where Kevin Missal’s Para...
There is something deeply comforting about certainty.We like knowing why things happen. We like clear answers, predictable outcomes and explanations that neatly close the conversation. We live in a time that makes this even easier. Algorithms predict what we might want next. Search engines find answers in seconds. Experts speak with enormous confidence. Even social media has turned complicated que...
We have grown up with certain identities so familiar that we rarely stop to examine them.Parvati is Shiva’s wife.She is Ganesha’s mother.She is the embodiment of Shakti.She is Durga. She is Kali.We know these names. We know the stories.But do we know Parvati?That question stayed with me while reading Parvati by Samar.Because the interesting thing about this novel is not that it tells us another st...
What would you be willing to give up if you genuinely believed that the one thing you were searching for could not be found in the life you were already living?That question stayed with me while reading If Truth Be Told: A Monk’s Memoir by Om Swami.Because the extraordinary thing about this memoir is not simply that a successful businessman became a monk.It is that the person who had seemingly acq...
We have spent years asking whether artificial intelligence will destroy humanity.Akshay Chopra’s After Us asks a more unsettling question:What if it doesn’t?What if the intelligence we create is benevolent? What if it solves problems we couldn’t? What if it understands us better than we understand ourselves? What if it doesn’t need to hate humanity to make humanity irrelevant?That possibility stay...
The Practicing Mind — Are We Practising Patience, or Practising Impatience?We often say that we want to become better at something.A better writer. A better athlete. A better parent. A better professional. A better version of ourselves.But there is a part of the process we don’t talk about enough.The part where we are still bad at it.The part where improvement is so slow that we begin wondering wh...
We have all been there.We know Ramayana. We know Mahabharata. We have heard the Gayatri Mantra. We have grown up hearing words like Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas, Smritis and Shastras. We visit temples, celebrate festivals, perform rituals and sometimes confidently discuss “our culture”.Then someone asks a very simple question: “But where does all this come from?”And suddenly, the confidence disappea...
