The modern scientifically trained democratic man wants to mock and laugh at all gods and kings ‘Haha, gods are dead. It all started with a big...
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Observations On The Indian Premier League (IPL) CricketWhat is professional sports anyway?
I avidly followed professional sports once upon a time — especially cricket. I ‘liked/adored/followed’ teams, players: their style, etc. And then philosophical interests kicked in and...
Continue reading...The Realm of Gods & KingsThere are two realms: On one dwell the Gods & Kings, and on the other You and I!
You, born in a normal family with normal requirements in life and a normal worldview properly begin your social life with your school. There you are...
Continue reading...The Peoples of Learning
A quick glance of known/believed human history will reveal to us one constant: Learning is essential. Vital. Crucial! Learning in the sense of: the process of acquiring new understanding,...
Continue reading...Two Contrasting Questions
For me there are two questions. They aren’t in harmony though! Every now and then I reach to a state-of-mind which — if I am to...
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While thinking about the ongoing war in Eastern Europe and its consequences, my thought went to the businesses that are being adversely affected – along with...
Continue reading...Will We Be Allowed To Freely Think and See tomorrow?
I am already quite alert while using my phone, laptop or TV. This alertness is because I am constantly reminded by a voice inside my head...
Continue reading...A Thought Experiment: Of An Alternative Existence
Let us imagine a habitable planet with – life, far far away! The planet is revolving around its own star. Its day-night period same as Earth’s....
Continue reading...Rahul Sankrityayan — The Birth of Brahman and Reincarnation
Rahul Sankrityayan was an Indian Marxist thinker who studied, travelled and wrote a lot. Here I want to quickly share his views on the birth and use...
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At least 900 species have gone extinct in the last five centuries and More than 35,000 species have been evaluated to be threatened with extinction today. This is the...
Continue reading...The Philosophy of Cataclysm
I grew up with Hindu/Buddhist philosophies and as you may know — there’s a gargantuan presence of the inevitability of death in these systems of thinking. Take the...
Continue reading...Will it all End? — It hardly matters!
Sensing what humans were doing to her forest, a tiger at a national park started getting paranoid. ‘They will destroy this all one day. I will...
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Arthur C. Clarke’s famous short-story The Sentinel (the seed from which 2001: A Space Odyssey sprang) is about a monolith discovered ‘high on the ridge of...
Continue reading...What is Power?
Thomas Hobbes defined power of a man as: his present means to obtain some future apparent good. He defines good as things that are of interest to...
Continue reading...A short history of Cities- Part 1
Jericho, Uruk and Ur A city can be defined as a geographical area which is compact, immensely interconnected and is urbanized. That is, it is modernly...
Continue reading...Importance of Knowledge in the 21st Century
I am going to propose a theory: The extent of knowledge (need-to-know) any given human society requires for a successful survival is of: the geographical periphery...
Continue reading...Is Kathmandu heating up?
I have spent my entire life in Kathmandu. I more or less know how the seasons work here. But, this October has been unlike any other....
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Biodiversity is a way of looking at biological varieties of any given space-time. If I have 20 species of flowers in my garden then it means...
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Temporally, we humans are wired to dwell in two dimensions — the past and the future. While ideally we wish we could live in the present,...
Continue reading...Climate Change and Nepal
For the period of 1999-2018, Nepal was among the top 10 most vulnerable nations from Climate Change according to the Climate Risk Index (CRI). 2019...
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