Think Tank

Today, I tweeted at my Twitter site: 
Anyone who claims to be an “atheist”; is in fact a “believer”. - Rahul 
Someone asked me “how?” Here was my explanation: 
If we think, atheism is also a “belief”. The person, who takes care not to believe in the conventional religions or wisdom which are at the end a “pattern”, [...]

Just read the following lines from a colleague in my company. Her name is Manisha P. and she writes amazing and profound lines like these:  
“वो तो इश्क़ की नुमाइश करते हैं उन्हे इल्म नहीं. परवाने जल जाते शमा पर बिना उफ्फ किए हुए.” 
Now this is so deep a comment on the attitude of our present [...]

I was watching a movie. The story revolved around a father searching for his abducted daughters. A gang of organized criminals used to traffic women and his daughters had fallen into their trap. The man was an ex-detective. The only thing he had to start his search with, was the voice sample of the abductors. [...]

 
One evening, I was reading Madhushala by Harivansh Rai Bachchan. Many lines from the poem seemed very different to me than their plain literal meanings. For example, I pick three stanzas: 
मदिरालय जाने को घर से चलता है पीनेवला,
‘किस पथ से जाऊँ?’ असमंजस में है वह भोलाभाला,
अलग-अलग पथ बतलाते सब पर मैं यह बतलाता हूँ -
‘राह [...]

(Philosophy) ~Every word is a sermon~|And Every sword a revolution|~Every aggressor is a god~|And Every sufferer, a Mother| The War was declared. The King had got a dream where God spoke to him. He gave him a message and asked to spread it towards the East. The day every person breathing on this earth will remember Him [...]

PhilosophyWish it were contagious�  When the class gets boring, the class looks out for some unclassified diversions. It was one such day. A guy opened the door and asked the ma�am, �I had left my bag in the classroom by mistake, can I take it please?� Ma�am consented but the class said, �no, no..� :) [...]

PhilosophyLucky or Not-so-Lucky?�There are some things that never change with time, place or culture. A willingness to be lucky is one of these. My dictionary defines luck as �An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favourable outcome�. We all realise at some time that our entire life is never in our control � [...]

Why God is not logical? �One of my friends had had an accident in the gym six years ago. He still suffers some back pain. He has joined the gym again. The other day while we were talking, he complained that because of that pain he was not able to work out as hard as [...]

Creative Destruction and Destructive Creativity Kumar Rahul Tiwary These days, I have observed that some young people are very proud of their creativity, which is destructive; in fact one of my friends claimed it as one of his strengths!  I remember this scene from in one B&W Hindi movie:   Johnny Walker and his son used to sell [...]

 Book Review: �Many Lives, Many Masters�Secrets of life revealed������������������������������ Last week I finished reading a book named �Many Lives, Many Masters�. The story goes like this:  �Psychiatrist Dr Brian Weiss had been working with Catherine, a young patient, for eighteen months. Catherine was suffering from recurring nightmares and chronic anxiety attacks. When his traditional methods of therapy [...]

Behind every successful Brand ������������������������������Inspired by an article written by Mrs. Sudha Murthy; the original piece attached with at the end.   Do you know what some people do when they see the companies spending millions in the �brand building� advertisements? They just laugh. They laugh because there are companies, though few, which are able to [...]