Thoughts seldom spoken

During a lunch discussion, some of my colleagues brought in the point of “In true sense there is no free will”. It started with finding a brinjal in my plate -> to justifying animal testing -> to free will.. sorry, to “no free will”. Don’t ask me the logic of the conversation. It is the “programming defect” of the spokesman. The end conclusion is they believed, oops, wrong usage,… inferred that human = complex machine + chemical reactions. That is, there is nothing more to a human than a hardware and a software. You are existing only due to the cause and effect principle and hence you are in constant bondage of the infinite factors that rule you. You - meaning the machine alias human. Well, this inference sounded very similar to the kinder garden story of fate and destiny. In both cases, you don’t have the power to change. Though the reasons quoted are vaguely different. About fate and destiny, I always thought it is an excuse for a lazy person not to live life. About “no...

Some MCP has written this and someone posted it in his facebook wall. Oops, sorry for insulting the pig. Please read it as "Male Chauvinistic Poramboku". A real woman always keeps her house clean and organized. The laundry basket is always empty. She's always well dressed, hair done. She never swears and behaves gracefully in all situations and all circumstances. She has more than enough patience to take care of her family, always has a smile on her lips and a kind word for everyone........ After reading this I remembered the movie "Stepford wives". In that movie, it is designed to show as if a woman desired to have such women around. But for all practical reasons, it is the lazy, untidy, DEPENDANT creatures who need such kinds of women as their wives.  Maybe it should be more elaborate like this: "I can't keep my house clean and organized. I will throw all my things and clothes in every direction and expect a woman behind to keep it clean and...

The below video is an example of how it would be if a person who has zero entrepreneurship knowledge/experience talks about entrepreneurship. http://www.facebook.com/video/ video.php?v=202864293080381 It is a speech by Gopinath (compere at Vijay TV) at SSCET College, Palani. He says "The person who is talking is an Indian, the mike is not made from India. This is shameful". What is shameful about it? This is globalization. Yes globalization has killed local entrepreneurs. If every country has to develop everything and supply everything this planet would soon be a heap of scrap. The other point is who should be shameful here? Goldspot is no more available, Coke and Pepsi killed it. But who has to be shameful for this? The infrastructure and tax policies of this nation are absolute enemies for entrepreneurship. Manufacturing and importing a skipping rope from China is cheaper than locally manufacturing it. Why is that? It is because of the several tax levied at suppliers en...

I spent around a week volunteering for a program and I felt completely rejuvenated though I slept only 3 hours a day and spent rest of the time in physical work. During that, we took a little time off and went for a trek into the forest to a waterfall. On the way, we cleaned the place removing plastic items and see how much we collected. Mostly there were bottles, pens, bags spread all over the place. At first I saw people being hesitant to do this as it was dirty all around. Some just went about doing it. I then noticed in the middle of my work, slowly everyone was doing their bit. I smiled and realized, it is human to open up and do what is needed when a fellow human does it right in front of you. In the first place, why should someone litter and then someone else has to clean it? Can’t we do our bit to maintain a clean place? I am not complaining of me doing it. Someone has to do it and I am glad to be a part of it. But at the same time, I would like to coax the ones who can do th...