Past research has suggested that certain activities like gardening, cooking, philanthropy, yoga etc. are almost therapeutic in effect. These activities are said to “heal our soul.” For some people, its even judged rejuvenating. But, what about meditation? I’ve always been curious to know, how does praying, a spiritual meditation…
A day after my birthday last week, I came across an article, ironically, titled ‘Why Does Time Go Faster As We Get Older? [http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/volume_9/v9i39_yaffe.html]‘ by Philip Yaffe, in which the author contemplates: > It seems as if there is never enough…
Thanks to the thousand odd people for subscribing the blog feed [https://www.nilkanth.com/feed/] and following me on Twitter [http://twitter.com/voidmonk]! I’ll try to keep up the occasional rants. Recently, a friend was exhibiting his paintings for the first-time. At the small gallery, he was…
For decades, intelligence has been defined too narrowly. Either you are considered to be genius, or stupid, not just as a child but also in your adulthood. What’s more worrisome is that it can make most kids (and some adults) to deprave their own self-esteem. Last week, I was…
I met Kuldeep about 6 months ago. It had just been a few months since he arrived in Melbourne. As we conversed, Kuldeep mentioned that he’s studying cookery at one of Melbourne’ lesser known universities. He didn’t like cooking much, but this particular course, expensive as it was,…
> No matter how good you are, don’t ever let them see you coming. That’s the gaffe my friend. You gotta keep yourself small. Innocuous. Be the little guy. This quote from “The Devil’s Advocate [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118971/]” has stuck with me for a…
The other evening, we watched “Ghajini [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1166100/]“, a much anticipated (or should I say hyped) Hindi film. Said to be based on the cult classic, “Memento [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209144/]“, unfortunately it wasn’t even close to what I was expecting of an…
> Once Einstein was on his way to deliver a speech to university students. His faithful chauffeur not only drove his car, but was always present amongst the audience during all his speeches. Einstein had delivered this particular speech so many times that his chauffeur had actually memorized it. On…