The oft quoted life sketch of Albert Einstein, where the school teachers spurned the kid Albert, and where the grown-up Mr. Einstein shone like Venus the planet, is a case in point. History abounds with differently challenged children later on [...]
Those who care, are concerned about others, often stand exploitation and bullying by those who don’t. Now it ain’t this always, that the sensitive are weak or something, they are just more accommodating. Yes, a few times, the sensitive ones [...]
Would you like to hazard an age at which a human being can afford to stop learning? Life throws umpteen challenges, many of them new ones, few of them rehashes of earlier challenges, and most repeat of once or few [...]
Seen people with spectacles? – fancy frames, thick/ thin lenses. An optician makes these spectacles, based on test results done by himself or a qualified eye doctor, an optometrist. The idea is to make the person wearing these see with [...]
Elsewhere it was said man needs 50000 years to grow up. Can we hasten this process? Drugs have to go through Clinical Trials, which take almost 11-12 years in Go To market. Of 5000 molecules, only one makes it to [...]
Indeed, ambiguity rules the roost all over; “a thing” possibly meaning “many things”. So how do you Disambiguate – eliminate the inapplicable multifarious interpretations? This is the talent and science humans have to evolve onto; unless you choose to be [...]
It used to be all around, in the air, in the surroundings, in the eyes. Now it is primarily in the mind, alone. I have doubts at times if it is there in the mind even. The pitch is about [...]
Anyone who has tried some hand at meditation or introspection must have felt the deep surge within of almost inexpressible feelings and emotions, besides concomitant physiological effects. The deep reserves inherent in human mind become patent, and one can begin [...]
Let this century be dedicated to the invisible. This may not be the panacea of all ills challenging mankind, but shall surely take all mankind to better coping levels. And if the trends are to be seen, will-nilly this is [...]