Education and Plato’s Allegory of the Cave

The allegory of the cave is one of the most famous passages in the history of Western…

A Valuable Book Can Make You a New Person

How the Book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” Has…

Dear Jon Ossoff: An Open Letter About How I Went on Jeopardy!

Sacred India: Traditions & Heritage

A sailor’s perspective on Indian temples, rituals and science of spirituality

Dialectical Materialism: The Other Social Darwinism

The Fear of Falling and the Sound of Music

I started out climbing by bouldering outdoors. A bunch of us were the first generation of climbers in our city and when we started out, 2 years ago, there weren’t any climbing gyms in Chennai. My first lead experience was a year ago. I was invited by a…

A Review of Mitch Kruse’s “Street Smarts from Proverbs”

In the Street

Content is not the king. It’s a drug.

Dopamine is a chemical secreted in human brain that is pivotal to major brain functions such…

What Real Virtue Looks Like In Difficult Times

Not how you think.

Patience can be hard. Kindness, humility and abstinence, chastity, liberality and diligence can as well. That is why they call these personal characteristics virtues.

Parables of Maggie: Your Life can Change in a Flash

Resistentialism & Free Will

In the mid to late 50s at St. Edward’s High School, a Catholic boarding school in Austin, Texas we used to…

An Engineer’s Hopes & Drops

‘Medicine or Engineering?’, the handlebar mustached dad & India’s-perfect-bahu mom asked her.

Who owns our energy?

Capital doesn’t own the sun, water or the wind. But it owns the medium that is inevitable to convert the energy from natural sources into usable forms for humans. If private property rights facilitated capital’s control over the resources that are contained within the limits the planet, in the current…