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I was going from my rental flat nearby towards the office. The way that enters the office premise/open area was such that if you walk in the lane provided for walking then you had to walk longer than a path which I usually used to choose. To come on that footpath you had to take some long steps or little jump, that looked a bit less disciplined and childish. I used to justify it to myself - "Innovations need path-breaking efforts. You have to think out of the box.". I used to laugh inside and feel like -" Bravo, you took two long path-breaking steps ."  At my desk at work, I used to try to learn and do work genuinely although I knew the output of that was just my learning rather than the actual work of the company at that time. The differentiated jobs of modern technology companies need high skills and you cannot be too productive for the company in a few months. I spent 9 hours in the office that day too, it was 5 in the evening. I decided to go to Marathalli Bridg...

While we all have a mixed bag of feelings when the word "culture" comes to our mind-Open culture, conservative culture, political culture, bureaucratic culture, government culture, corporate culture, western culture, religious culture, and so on. The people who perceive to be privileged have a more positive attitude towards culture rather than the ones who perceive to be exploited or who empathize with the perceived exploited ones. The oxford dictionary defines culture as "the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively". To get a rough idea of culture in a better way, we can see some components of culture like - values, beliefs, language, symbols, religion, festivals, and so on. Freedom of individual can not be seen in isolation, it is the complex interaction of various variables in the whole. And culture is the ecosystem that is developed and that in turn develops the ecosystem that affects the perspective of a child about...

  With all the hustle-bustle around the world, the travels, the planning and projects, all came to a sudden halt when Governments started to impose lockdowns and restrictions. Industries and institutions, employers and workers, teachers and students have to cope with a lot of change in a short period. Keeping it brief, let's look back to see what are the lessons of this COVID pandemic. 1. Be ready for any contingency and to be resilient Initially, it was thought that a lockdown of a few days would bring normalcy and for some, it was a rest from hectic schedules but soon it came out that the abnormal uncertainty was there to stay for a longer time. So what is the lesson now, can we predict what will be the new contingent situation – whether it would be natural or man-made, whether it would be medical or environmental or what. The answer is that we cannot surely tell when and what to come but what we can learn from the COVID pandemic is that we have to make a mindset that can acc...

  A girl and a boy, in a conservative society, fell in love with each other. Perhaps, neither they could legitimise their relationship in that society nor they want to be visible to the society together in a relationship. The boy urged to meet the girl somewhere. They had not met for a long time by then. But the girl hesitated to come out of her home at that instant because what reason would she give to her parents to go out. With a lot of internal agitation and hesitation, she went out with the permission of her parents to go to the market. All they used to crave for all these days were few meetings without being noticed by the world. They met in a big public park that used to be crowded and so was it, on that day too. It was the time to see off each other with no idea about "what next" of their relationship with already a sense of separation.  She said - " My favourite colour is white. It somehow represents my situation. Even the slightest mark can ruin it. It has to b...

  In childhood, we learn "opposite words", and one of such pairs was day and night. At a point of space and time on earth we either experience day or night. They never are simultaneous. So it seems that day and night are different events. We are told winters have longer nights and summers have longer days. Yes, it is correct, what is wrong with it - Nothing. Now If we see the earth from a certain distance, we can see different lengths of day and night simultaneously for infinite points of location on earth. Day and night happen together, they are not two events but the result of a small single phenomenon of sun rays falling on the earth, covering different areas day and night. The point of observation shifts and the interpretation differs. What is correct? What we learn in childhood that day and night happen at different times or what we have seen just now that day and night are simultaneous.  If we see things differently our "correct knowledge" can even become ...