Eunoia — Beautiful Thinking

Bob Sends Alice Butterflies

As semesters come to an end, we are confronted yet again with what the future holds for us. Someplace to go…

Two Homes?

Gazing back to the past, when I see my naive 17 year self staring at the tiny little airport of Pune for the first time with wide eyes and an anxious heart, I cannot help the small smile that naturally comes to my lips and eyes. I could not call upon this smile so easily when I first came to this city, it…

Escape

Days turn into nights turn into days. I stumble into my shabby, one bedroom apartment at the end of another monotonous day. Tonight is the…

Influence Of The New Era Of Comedy

“If you make them laugh, they open their mind. And when they open their mind, there’s room for change.”

To 2016

Another trip around the sun. Another year flies by.

It seems like we’re only waking up now, slowly blinking away sleep and wondering just how we got here- gearing up to start yet another year. We’re mostly groggy and a little confused, and slightly (an understatement of huge proportions)…

The New Year list of Diseases

The new year is upon us. It dawns upon this reader (and not just because it is close to 8 AM with no sleep…

Are we getting dumber as our devices grow smarter?

“And AC said, “LET THERE BE LIGHT!”

And there was light — — “

‘The Last Question’, by Isaac Asimov- the rockstar of science fiction.

Nobody Cares

When it happened, nobody cared. It all began with tribes and civilizations waging war. Sometimes to prove their superiority; sometimes…

ALEPPO

Do humans really ever learn from their mistakes? Do we realize the discrepancies in the way we functioned in history, as compared to now? Or are we doomed to repeat it?

The gory details of the Battle of Aleppo have been splattered all over. In the past few weeks, we have seen heartbreaking…