If anti-matter exists, then anti-post most certainly does. But what is an anti-post? A post is generally an article written around a specific topic / subject and with a theme. In the same way, can we then create an anti-post which does not talk about anything AT ALL? If there were to be guidelines for…
Month: May 2014
Discrimination on Indian railways? Side berth’ians versus main berth’ians
I am posting this as I travel on a train back to base (in an AC 2 tier coach). Had been off for a few weeks along with kids for their summer vacations (as like the thousand or more other families who exhibit the migrating birds syndrome every year). And as luck would have it,…
A picture is worth a thousand words, or is it?
They say that a picture is worth a thousand words or more. Sorry, I beg to differ. In my view, a well written / spoken few words could be worth more than a dozen pictures. What is this worth that we are talking about here? The ability to communicate a thought / topic / message…
A post full of questions – #1 – human memory
Do we know what memory is? Do we know what memory is made up of, and how this works? Do we know the different types of memories? How do we even remember to remember? Who taught us how to store and retrieve? Do we have memories before even we know how to think? How did…
Communicating well – Art or Science or just lady luck?
Why is it that Communicating (effectively), is usually called an Art and not a Science? Art stands for anything that is creative and comes from the heart, and not the mind (which is where science would come from). Science is purely technical, reason based and result oriented and has nothing to do with the heart…
Fiction in Diction
Picture this – you can simplify something, you can beautify someone, you can pacify someone but you cannot complexify anything, as much as you want to because that would complicate matters! Why would I want to compli-cate something when all I want is to complexi–fy it? 🙂 Surprise, you can complexify things. Did you know…
How do we make choices?
I often wonder, what is it that gives us the gift to make a choice. Is it ingrained in our genes, passed down from our ape ancestors or was this something that we are taught and we learn as we grow, by our parents and the external world? If we knew this, then can we…
Why did the Project Manager cross the road?
Try answering this – Why did the project manager cross the road? To make it easy, I give you 3 probable reasons: a) He was asked to cross the road b) He heard they were setting up free project support camps on the other side c) He thought he could get a better view from…
Random Musings 