Reflections

It has been a long time since “The Fountainhead” that I came across a novel so satisfying as “A Certain Ambiguity: A Mathematical Novel” by Gaurav Suri and Harosh Singh. Certainly not two of the known strata of intellectual authors that I have tried to read over the past year, kudos to them for the book! Now the book does not boast about a great vocabulary or the use of satirical statements that make you smirk at the wit of the author. Neither does it transport you to a fairy land. It talks about two things: Mathematics and Philosophy. Or rather one, Mathematical Philosophy. The book has two subplots, one being the narrator’s story and the other being the story of the narrator’s grandfather’s arrest when he came to America as a mathematics student. Both the stories run parallel and get interspersed with each other by the end. Each one complimenting the other. The story is simple, without any romantic drama that often accompanies a novel. A grandchild follows into the footsteps of hi...

So everyone thinks there is something or the other screwed up with this world. Or rather, this world is screwed up in some or the other way. And we all probably have our own theories of what really went wrong with the world! Each individual has a different theory. Some even have multiple theories, sometimes quite contradictory to each other! Breaking away from my New Year resolution of not thinking anything this year, I finally decided to give some deep thought into forming my own theory of What Really Went Wrong with the World, which I shall now present before you. However, before I put forward my theory it just remains unsaid that having originated from weird experiences most of it might not make sense to most people, which is quite acceptable considering I am not trying to convince anyone! Well, if you look at it, a lot of it doesn’t even make sense to me. But then, a lot of things don’t make sense to us and still they are there staring at us in the face like our own reflections g...

“What is that one thing that you are looking for from life?” She asked him, hoping to find her own answer to the question that had been bothering her for quite some time. Seeking, searching, trying to find, in those long hours that she spent with herself, she could not find an answer. Or, perhaps, she found too many of them! For a while she was convinced it was Love. Yes, Love it is! Everyone needs it. So does she. It is the most powerful emotion in the world. A state of mind that has the ability to change the universe. It manifests itself in innumerable ways. Envy, when the love for that one person becomes overbearing and surpasses the clear vision of looking at people for who they are. Happiness, that feeling of exuberance that we get when we know that someone has touched our life and we have touched theirs. Yes, it has to be Love that she is looking for! Love is… Yes, she doesn’t know what Love is! And, how can she be looking for something that she does not know about! God, her p...

Here is a collection of the links of some of my articles published by youthkiawaaz.com, an online forum with which I have been working as an intern for quite some time! Mentorship: Celebrating People for Who They Are! Plagiarism: Challenging the Concept Understanding the Agnostic Viewpoint Badnaam Munni, Jawaan Shiela and Poor India College Fests: The fun. The turbulence Model United Nations: LOLing Moments! Suddenly, Last Winter NREGA: Bright Future Prospects? Censorship on the Internet: Some key players and Perils The state of 5 Rivers in Turmoil P.S. Some of these, you might have already read on my Blog! :) P.P.S. Thank you YKA for an amazing experience! :D

“So you believe in God, eh?” “Uhh…umm…Yes…No…umm…I don’t know!” But, what I do know is that I don’t know who is God. Or, what is God. Perhaps It is a belief that justifies our existence and the occurrence of every event.   Perhaps, a concept that our super-human ancestors cooked up so that they could weave innumerable stories around it about hell and heaven and morals and ethics. Perhaps He is a super-human Himself who controls each of our actions like a puppeteer would do. And, why exactly am I using “Him”? “He” could just be a “She” or perhaps just an “It”. I choose not to discriminate and shall use “It” for any further reference. So, we have never seen It. But, we had occurrences which are mysterious to us. And, so we think It is there. Where? We don’t know! To avoid any hurt to people’s sentiments that I may cause by my rhetoric statements, I shall now only present My Agnostic Viewpoint: I think and choose to believe that t is really just about Faith. Faith in something, any...