Jun
18
“Sticks and stones
May break my bones
But words will never hurt me.”
Growing up my friends and I use to sing that rhyme to our bullies before we would stick out our tongues and then run away to tell the nearest teacher. Very mature I know, but what else could be expected from 8 or 9 year old girls. Nowadays things are different as kids are being attacked by cyber-bullies.
But in these… Continue reading
Jun
15
“I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the difference between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important”
Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man.
Is it the phase of moral degradation of society?
To even attempt answering this question we have to first arrive at a definition of morality. The first
Jun
8
“Honour killing is murder. This is a barbaric act.” [6]
That was said by a man by the name of Khalil Aswad. His 17 year old daughter Du’a Khalil Aswad was stoned to death in a mob of 2000+ people and some of those in the audience were… Continue reading
Jun
4
We discussed how government interference in market causes all inflations and depressions here The Price of Rice, What caused it to go so high? And here The story of Money; what causes Inflation.
May
30
The philosophy of Epicurus was actually a philosophical hybrid and it came about as the result of a combination of the Atomism of Democritus and the Hedonism of Aristippus. Epicurus formulated a new doctrine from the pleasure-loving individualistic Greeks of the Asiatic coast, designed for the use of the educated upper and middle classes of the Athenian mainland. It was a philosophy of detachment and impeccable taste
May
26
There is a big slum in Bhopal city on the left south side of the North TT Nagar. The richness of new market and whole north TT Nagar hides it so that generally, a person, roaming in Bhopal will just ignore it.
Nothing new, every new or old city has… Continue reading
May
18
The ownership of water resources.
“What if there is a drought? Let people live or pay to live? ” -First reaction on Orkut in a thread about private ownership of rivers
As usual, people tend to freak out on the idea of privatizing the water resources like Rivers, and more importantly Oceans(yes, private ownership of Oceans must be… Continue reading