While cooking Turiya curry a few days back, I was amused at how it’s name was the same as the concept of Turiya from Indian philosophy. There are other names of this veggie, but this is the name I like most. Since it has outward facing ridges, its english name…

It’s an intriguing design of nature that the Sanskrit words Bhram and Brahm which have totally opposite meanings are so similar in sound and have the same set of characters rearranged. …

In the dense forest of good memories arising from a single human mind, the mother tree of memories stands rooted to her spot, utterly disoriented. Why has she been feeling her life force draining out lately? Why are her leaves drying up and flowers refusing to blossom? She is the…

After all, it only took a tiny non-living virus to give us a crash course on humility and force us to look beyond our biology, social networks, culture and geography to ask our self “Who Am I?” Despite those exotic travel plans that had to be cancelled, in the last…

Einstein famously said that “The only reason time exists is so that everything doesn’t happen at once”. Giving stiff competition to man made Greenwich Mean Time based on the imaginary Greenwich Meridien is Netflix Mean Time that is all set to challenge the illusion of time. Several mystics and thinkers…

What’s the similarity between the 450 pound Royal Bengal Tiger in the movie ‘Life of Pi’ and father of ‘The Amazing Spiderman’? The name Richard Parker. In an interesting coincidence, I just watched both movies back to back and was surprised to note that both Spiderman’s father and the tiger…

Were the Eagles the George Orwell of music? Did they somehow ‘take a trip’ into our present age where we are (virtual) ‘prisoners of our own device’, courtesy tech giants at Silicon Valley, California? Yes, there are multiple interpretations of the legendary song ‘Hotel California’ and the Silicon Valley angle…