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Apr 16

True Love

We all want to be loved. Sometimes this good desire leads us to unintended danger. The love that we often experience in this world is fake. True love is where one seeks to willfully do whatever is required for another’s welfare, even though the other person doesn’t deserve it. But…

Love

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Apr 16

Fragility of Humanity

As I turn 43 years today, here are my reflections on what should be the motive of our life. There is an innate desire in man to create a name for himself. Though it may seem harmless, it is rooted in selfishness. And so what he builds for himself is…

Humanity

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Apr 16

Family

Family is an essential unit for a successful society. It is an institution ordained by the Supreme Designer for the experiential learning of some of the basic concepts such as love, discipline, responsibility and care from day one of a human life. Nowadays it is being attacked from all different…

Family

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Apr 16

The Unattainable Pi (π)

It was when I was teaching my kids math that I realized that in a field which I considered to be mature and logical, there were instances where we had to live with assumptions and approximations. Pi* is a good example of this. Something that seems like man would never…

Life Lessons

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Apr 16

The Decline of World Conscience

[The narratives in this blog might seem to be a bit gross. Sometimes it has to be said this way to inflict a surgical cut in our hearts and thus provoke our conscience back into sensitivity] The following is an event from history. Once the Syrian army had besieged the…

Conscience

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Apr 16

Professing to be wise, they became fools

[All these articles that I am writing are based on the fact that there is a living God. If that is not true, all these principles won’t make any sense at all] If you carefully watch the world scene, you can notice the wisdom and smartness of man turning into…

Wise

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Apr 16

We are all disoriented!

We are all disoriented! In fact we are all disoriented from birth. We are disoriented because our parents are disoriented. A child is born with an orientation to disobey. No one teaches a child to disobey. It is in its nature. We as good parents need to orient them towards…

Alternative Lifestyle

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Apr 16

Facing Death with Confidence

I turned 44 today. Thanks for all your wishes. Below are some thoughts that I was inspired to write. “A good name is better than precious ointment, And the day of death than the day of one’s birth;” This is a statement from the wisest man who lived on this…

Death

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Apr 16

Freedom from Self

Turned 45 today. Here are some thoughts. We live in a world that seems to be increasingly self centered. When things are in plenty, when there is growth, when the economy is doing well, it is not that evident. But when things go south, that’s when we see the ugly…

Self

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Apr 16

The pain of Corona: A solemn expression of sincere love?

Corona is closing in. When it first started in China, it did not bother us much, who were in Bangalore. But it slowly started rising in Mumbai and Delhi, then Chennai and now in Bangalore. And it seems to escape all human efforts to contain, leaving people anxious and helpless. …

Corona

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