I have started on Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography. Absolutely fascinating. No doubt that he was a remarkable man. I find the book un-putdown-able. The reason I started on it is rather pedestrian: I am out of reading material and went to… Read More ›
Month: June 2005
11 Steps to a Better Brain
{via Sonal Vidya.} From the New Scientist: 11 Steps to a Better Brain. One of which is: Sleep on it Never underestimate the power of a good night’s rest So I am doing that a lot. I will have to… Read More ›
Andreski on Thinking
Stanislav Andreski in Social Sciences as Sorcery (1972) So long as authority inspires awe, confusion and absurdity enhance conservative tendencies in society. Firstly, because clear and logical thinking leads to a cumulation of knowledge (of which the progress of the… Read More ›
The World is (Information) Fat
“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.” — Samuel Johnson quoted in Boswell’s “Life of Johnson.” If you come to think about it for a moment, what… Read More ›
Ill Fares the Land . . .
They beat him up. According to the MidDay report of June 1, “after a thorough beating,” they handed him over to the police in Mumbai.
Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Also Form
My Dear Abhishek: You, like everything else, are a little bundle of energy, aren’t you! Let me tell you a story. It was a very long time ago, by some estimates about 15 to 18 billion years ago, this universe… Read More ›
