Apr 2Beware of the angels within — A cautionary tale against the ill effects of good intentions.“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” — Mark Twain Ayn Rand postulated the following three axioms, albeit not in these exact words: Life exists. Life needs life to survive. Life’s sole purpose is to preserve…Philosophy4 min read
May 8, 2021Dr SelfLove or: How I stopped caring and became an enlightened narcissist!This is yet another excerpt from the private diary of our Protagonist and as before the author makes no claims as to non-fictional nature of the material. All resemblance to any person living or dead is purely incidental. Instead, the author wishes to acknowledge his debt to the great late…Philosophy6 min read
Apr 20, 2021Mr GetsAllHeWishesFor or How getting arrested earned me my freedom… almost!This is an excerpt from the private diary of The Protagonist whose unique predicament was discussed in a prior article. The author can neither deny nor confirm the veracity of the narrative that follows. Yes! On April 17, 2021, a day that I will always look back upon with bewildered…Divorce5 min read
Mar 28, 2021Inspired to fail… A twist in the tale!“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.” – J.K. Rowling There once lived a man, The Protagonist, who after a rather tumultuous childhood and an…Inspiration5 min read
Mar 25, 2021To each his own… bollocks to that!According to Wikipedia the origins of the English idiom, “To each his own” can be traced back to the German phrase “Jedem das Seine” which is the literal German translation of the Latin phrase “Suum cuique”. While the German phrase is controversial unto itself due to its use by the…Philosophy5 min read
Feb 20, 2021Love thy neighbour, nay thy self!If the flow of time could be reversed as easily as the vagaries of the human heart this blog post would have been published on the eve of Valentine’s Day just as the excesses of human emotions were starting to flood social media. Alas we are all but puppets in…Self Love3 min read
Feb 6, 2021Spiritual Advocates — The missing superheroes of the hour!“Vanity… Definitely my favourite sin!”, John Milton, The Devil’s Advocate. The defining trial of the age of man is underway at a grand scale. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced mankind to put its core moral values on trial. At stake is our very humanity. The plaintiff is our moral code…Spirituality3 min read
Jan 25, 2020Nationalism: The Achilles heel of progress?In view of recent events, this article is neither a critique of leaders across the world nor is it a commentary on the current global political quagmire. Instead, this can be construed as an open ended question being posed to the collective human intelligence with an unconditional admission that even…Nationalism5 min read
Apr 28, 2019Let’s save our Superheroes…By freeing them from our shackles! Metro Man said it best: “I DO have a choice! I can be whatever I wanna be! No one said that this hero thing had to be a lifetime gig!” So why do we then rejoice at the end of the movie when Megamind…Superheroes3 min read
May 6, 2018Is intelligence an evolutionary mistake?A consistent theme in the history of the homo sapiens species seems to be that intelligence begets evil. Given the very nature of life what is beneficial for one living thing is most likely harmful to some other living thing. However, it can be argued that if we go up…Philosophy5 min read