Category: Life
Skepticism and Wonder Begins at Home
I started reading Demon-Haunted World : Sagan, Carl, Druyan, Ann. It’s about cultivating a scientific temper, promoting critical thinking, and fostering skepticism. One paragraph in the preface made me think about my parents and thousands of others as well. You don’t have to be a scientist to have a scientific temper or to...
Banu Mushtaq and Dasara
Dasara Festival is celebrated as ನಾಡ ಹಬ್ಬ (Nāḍa habba), which translates to state festival, following India’s transition to a republic. It’s sponsored and run by the GoK using tax money. It’s not the private affair of the ex-royal1 family of Mysore, or any other individual. In fact, the ex-royal family is allowed a...
Data from Bengaluru – Where Do You Work From?
It was a simple survey of one question. Where do people in Bengaluru choose to or prefer or allowed to work from? Here are the answers as of now. I also know that it has limitations. Even with all these limitations, I think it’s still useful. You can download the CSV data as...
Copy to Learn, Try Till You Master
I’m often surprised at how almost every action of Uma can be traced back to someone around her. She copies so easily, sometimes adding small twists of her own. But it’s not always a perfect copy. For example, she often mispronounces words or struggles with the action, but she never stops copying. And...
Stress
It’s a lie to say that there is no stress; stress is always present, whether at work, at home, or in any situation involving human interaction or expectations. Forget external expectations; your self-expectations; the image you have of yourself (good or bad) that you want to maintain leads to stress. I am not...
