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Taboo... is a once prevalent and widely accepted fabric of a culture that is so deeply ingrained and efficient for the system that it manages to persist for long into it while the culture itself changes... when the culture fully transforms, this still persistent and accepted fabric becomes starkly visible as an alien or obsolete entity or the taboo. Thus as a matter of fact taboos are not a vile or erroneous outcome of the society, they are rather a well thought, profusely tested and once widely accepted part of the culture. But a point comes when the society takes a multifold leap and has to clutch to an altogether novel system, squeezing out the 'taboo' part of it off its new system. Moreover, the attorney of tagging a sub system as a taboo is generally bestowed to the ones in power or in majority (generally the newer generation). It's rarely a case when a minority or a weaker section or an older section comes out in the open and declares a subsystem of its era as a ta...

Maybe artificial intelligence is the corrigendum to human intelligence. It may be the further evolution of the human race. Maybe humans are the premature state of robots and robots lie ahead in the evolutionary timeline of life starting right from the Big bang. The disruptive view of the next dimension by the pioneers has led to the advancement of human race physically and metaphysically. Humanity has embraced these advancements with grace and vigour. But lately, Artificial Intelligence has been a topic attracting contrasting views with a major chunk being that of skeptics addressing their insecurities to the association of intelligence to a "non human" thing. It is said that such a kind of intelligence is vulnerable and is prone to corruption. But look around, is human intelligence flawless? Hasn't it been corrupted too and rendered dark at times? Anyways, it seems pretty obvious to have such an unwelcoming opinion when you are able to observe yourself fade in the the...

Last night...I came across a tumult of thoughts. Thoughts that were stretching my mind, as in the ethereal part of it, pulling it apart trying to reveal some absolutes of it. This pull, or I should name, this pressure on the ethereal part of mind has always stayed with me and I believe with most of the people that I know of. Actually I was treading through a rich eclectic collection of works of varied genres, in the youtube, comprising of music, drama, technology and philosophy. Each one of them a true piece of beauty, titillating my mind in ways of their own, instigating in me the similar emotions/ hormones that I should comfortably claim as bliss/ dopamine. But as I finished off savoring each of those subjects, I found myself (the ethereal part of my mind) in a wide abyss with shiny shards of each genre floating around, each one of them pulling me towards it. Each of them luring me to be pursued  to their full. And this is not a momentary scenario that I underwent, it’s a c...

Yesterday...I reluctantly went out for an excursion with my friend...for a test drive actually. We had planned to go for the ride(that of a Harley) first and then go to Daryaganj to get my friend a guitar. Though my escorting guide accidentally abandoned me in the middle of the ride and I had to carry the whole 1200cc package(that kept on haulting in between) right through the middle of the unpredictable traffic of Delhi, the experience as a whole was a nice one. We left the slick humungous showroom after a while and caught the urban lifeline, the metro, straight for Chawri Bazar. We boarded off the destined station and found ourselves in the middle of a cobweb of narrow streets crowded with men, women, kids, rickshaws, trucks, autos, beggars, handicapped, rickety shops, showrooms, dogs and cows and yes offcourse, the scorching sun and continuous strident noises. Unaware of the exact route and aware of the possibility of getting struck in this cobweb, we decided to get a lo...

Hmmm....this piece of mine is the result of a continuous clash between my repository of knowledge and my thought. The knowledge of science and the thought of conscience. So to begin with ...we were taught and convinced in our institutions of a principle that if no energy is being spent or no work is being done...then the system of concern stays in its stable state. That simply means that the true stable state(natural state) of a system is achieved without the transaction of energy or work through it. In context to this knowledge of science...my conscience lately in the process of deciphering the meaning of our struggles...asked me..."if stability is our natural state...then why do we have to struggle for it...and when we struggle(transact energy or work) then are we moving away from our stability?". To make it more clear... I would like to share these thoughts: if I need a good career...I need to work over my mind, if I need a good physique...I need to work over my body, i...

Worth...Ravan sought it from his throne...and ended up devastated...shurpanakha sought it from a man and ended up mutilated...Vali sought it from his revenge...and ended up decieted...Ram sought it from his subjects and ended up unrequited. This process of seeking worth from the act of possession is what enslaves the person who seeks it. The king who boasts over his throne's possession actually enslaves himself to his association with the throne. The moment the throne goes away...there follows his worth. In our day to day transactions of knowledge, money, power and other such manifestations we fail to keep the subtle gap between possession and witnessing. We try to accumulate, posess and then hoard on the things that we witness. And then later from this pile of our possession we derive our worth. We fail to realise that in this process of attaching our worth to something external to us, we render ourselves vulnerable to becoming unworthy subjected to the tainting of our object o...

The subject was carrying 'something valuable'... Therefore they killed the subject...no...wait...first they followed the subject...then mobbed the subject so that the subject could not run... then they stabbed the subject repeatedly...and then finally threw the subject out of the train...whoa! they just secured the fate of humanity...they set the perfect example of what humans should do as their foremost duty...afterall that is the ultimate purpose of the human race I guess...to restrict beef from being eaten. Yes, the 'something valuable' was allegedly beef as believed and made to believe by 'they' and the subject was a 15 years old innocent who went to get some goodies for Eid. Poor kid...he didn't know that he should go out of his house only after removing his traditional white cap and off course without a packet of food that may resemble beef. Otherwise the least thing that can happen to him is being killed. It's simple. Just follow the two rules an...