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OMG! Hindus don’t run riot over films
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Why ‘social sharing’ is not the same as publishing
When you are writing an email to someone, you are communicating. When you are writing a blog post that may be read by anyone who might stumble upon it, you are publishing. (These are not absolute definitions, but they will do for the time being.)
Consider…
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He went out looking for mutton but found only chicken. So he bought some, cooked it and ate it…
He went out looking for mutton but found only chicken. So he bought some, cooked it and ate it while singing:
“Meat na mila re mann ka…”
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On having a life
No one who ever did anything with their life did so by ‘chilling out’ or ‘having a life’. The people who left a mark on the world were people who slogged and slogged and slogged. They loved slogging. They worked their asses off. That is why you remember…
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Social media is not Congress’s cup of tea
We hear of how Congress is becoming wise to the ways of social media. A ToI report speaks of how…
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On having a life
No one who ever did anything with their life did so by ‘chilling out’ or ‘having a life’. The people who left a mark on the world were people who slogged and slogged and slogged. They loved slogging. They worked their asses off. That is why you remember them. So ‘chill out’ all you want. But don’t expect to be remembered after your death by anyone other than your children. And no. Your grandchildren won’t remember much of you either. One generation after your death, you will be extinct.
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The meandering piano section at the end was a first-time improvisation - a second take would have defeated the point of what I was trying to achieve.
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On justice and fairness
You don’t need me to tell you that the world is not a fair place. Oddly enough, it is not an unfair place either.
It’s just a place.
Tigers don’t worry about rights and wrongs. Mosquitoes don’t ask if sucking blood is moral or not. Morality is an exclusively human concern.
But humans don’t live in a moral world. The world at large doesn’t give a fig about our ideas of right and wrong. This is why, after every triumphant good or utterly demoralising evil, we end up in the pit of confusion, asking if there is a god or if the world is worth living in.
The world is a complicated place.
