Recently I had a chance to visit Costa Rica. For those of you who don’t know where it is (like I did a year ago), it is in South America. I would say it is central america reaching out to meet south america. You can almost miss it in Maps between the Mexico at top…
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Leaving Amazon (kind of), Embracing Change
At first I felt this title might be catchy like a clickbait. But then on pondering about it for a few minutes I realized that it is more truthful than catchy. The idea of leaving amazon is almost like the idea of embracing change. It makes me think about the transitions we make which are…
Continue ReadingThe Need for compassion
We live in troubled times. Maybe not all of us but most of us can sense the growing distrust among people. It may be Europe which has been devastated by multiple attacks recently or the war ravaged middle east. And more recently the feeling of distrust has been growing here at home in USA. I…
Continue ReadingChaos & Quantum Entanglement
The last time I took a lesson in physics was probably way back in 2006 or 2007. It’s been almost a decade yet I consider myself an astrophysics enthusiast. There are various facets of physics that I really love. Every time I think about them I feel like I understand people and the world a…
Continue ReadingEmpathy and Efficiency: Thoughts about a workplace
There has been lot of talk lately around Empathy. Most of it has been in context of a workplace. I work at a workplace and have done so for a few years now. It is not easy to understand empathy even though it is primitively simple in definition. Empathy means the ability to understand and…
Continue ReadingJourney to the unknown : Thailand – Part 1
There are moments in your life when you take a decision so incredible you had never even dreamed of it. And then there are decisions that have been bubbling inside you for quite a bit and that one final moment it just appears bright and clear. I had not personally imagined doing a solo trip….
Continue ReadingShadow at Night
I wrote this about a year back and found it recently under some old uncatalogued text files. I still wonder why I never came to put it up. Its night, a decent one at that And i am sitting by the water There’s a shadow under my feet And its shining bright tonight There’s a…
Continue ReadingGood People and Bad People
Sometimes the thought drives me crazy, “Why do bad people have good things happening to them? Why can they be so happy? Why can everyone like them? And the good ones get lost in the background or have bad things happening to them” At a later day, i know, i would realise that everything that…
Continue ReadingIndependent: Then why still fighting?
Today is Our Independence Day. India’s Independence Day. 62 years back, this very day, we got our independence from the British. Yet we are still not really free. We are bound by Land, by territory. I am not so well versed with the politics, and country related stuff, but still a small crazy thought floats…
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