A new lease of life.

They were a cute, young couple. When the two of them started going out, they were just about 17 years old. They had no idea how damaging real relationships can be. They were just two youngsters trying to have fun as they built on to the impulsively planned out future. A bright future ahead of them, supportive parents, gushing young blood and delightfully optimistic minds.

Initially, all the newness of a relationship held their hands through. Everything was a first time. The first date, the first big hug, the first kiss, the first time they said the three words. It seemed like they were on a cloud they would never come down from. Top of the world.

Science?!

When the tall, black haired, Brahmin said "I believe my religion and believe when it says Darwin’s theory is wrong”, I had a conversation within myself.  The two people inside me : the atheist and the son of my parents kept talking and will probably never stop. But I guess there’s a winner nonetheless. Till the day the son finds enough belief in the religion to throw the atheist out of me, the atheist will keep winning. But this is an episode where he actually lost!!

Atheist : Hari can’t be serious!! It’s just the heat of the discussion getting to him!!

Son of Brahmins : I half doubt Darwin too. After-all, nothing has ever been certain. So what if they found fossils? Maybe that was also a wrong theory.

Atheist : So, you’re saying if people proved the world to be round and not flat, they will prove humans are humans and not evolved apes?!

Son  : Yes, I bet you can’t find a fault with that argument of mine.

Happily Ever After!

“And they lived happily ever after”

What does that remind you? Cinderella? Snow White? Any other fairy-tale? I’m sure it’s only in fairy tales that we see a phrase like that. And the reason is simple, because the phrase in itself is quite an imaginary thing.

When we start out moulding our lives, we have a goal in mind. The goal is pretty simple, “A happy future”. But as we live life second by second, we are forced to rethink this goal of ours.

Katrinah Josephina- an interesting song

Katrinah Josephina - an interesting song

When I first time I heard this song I was frankly taken aback by the sheer magic of the music. Then I wanted to start digging into meanings for the song and it seemed to convey this interesting story of a girl and her life with her alter ego. Then slowly, my interpretation of the song took life, took a wholesome form. This story haunted me and has been something I’ve been inspired by. It has been so beautifully masked and covered and the philosophy of the song is so appealing.

A simple question of right and wrong.

Hi, I have been enjoying my days in the US but not without a lot of thinking. More exposure, more interesting people with interesting thoughts and more food for thought. One of the questions that have stood out for me in this trip is the question of what is right and what it wrong. I don't really know if I'll make justice to my thoughts if I write them down here but I have decided to give it shot anyway.


What is wrong??

So, to know what is right, we need to first define what "wrong" is. And the definition of wrong for me can be classified into two - "The society's definition of wrong" and "A personal definition of wrong".
These two aren't exclusive sets. Actually, it can safely be said that the first is a raw average of a huge collection of the various possible definitions of the second. This analysis led me to the basic ideas of right and wrong. The question at this stage became a more difficult question to answer : "Who is a bad person?"

When I tried answering that question with the obvious "A person who does wrong things consciously is a bad person", I hated that my definition did not mention whether the wrong was "socially wrong" or "personally wrong".