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Pleasure chemical for ears and eyes

Every afternoon brought the voice of Yesudas alive in the neighbourhood. This was a favorite pass time for the whole village. Men who go to the fields and women ruling over the houses alike used to wait in almost straight lines near the large canal which carries water to the farm lands where these water met the fertile soil of Kerala, for the sounds from the only Radio in town. The Murphy radio brought by the British sahibs to India stayed back and found new home when they returned to their homelands. This radio famously called Murphy chettan was gifted to the current owner by his British boss when he took the steamer back to his roots. Murphy stayed fit to serve two generations without any complaints often respected and revered for his age and fitness. The war had ended and India had become independent, Akashvani was formed and creators of movies and music thrived, during these times it was a practice to transmit the famous songs of the present day movies every afternoon often timing ...

Uninvited Visitor

The need for working the land to make it available to build housing for families had been a never ending phenomenon in this part of the world. With the growth of population comes the need for more and more houses which becomes homes. I always thought maybe it was all forests and undiscovered land across the world. Later we discovered some and some we worked out deforestation based on the needs of the community. While all this was getting done, the societies grew to communities to nations with boundaries marking their ownership. Now we have reached a steady state that any change to the border can only be achieved with the label of being an invader, ever since colonialism has gone out of fashion.  I am sure most of us would have noticed how areas around us which was always uninhabited gets constructed and becomes somebody's dream house someday. How some random building with ten units welcomes ten families or groups of people across the country to become the tenants to generate wealth...

Metaverse - Is it future or our own history?

 We had been fascinated with the site visits of aliens for time eternal. We have heard stories, conspiracies, witness accounts and dreams of various fellow earth civilians about the UFOs and the antenna hoisted heads for a while. Most of at some point had really wished to at least believe one of those accounts and often articulated it to others to make sure they believe our beliefs. The alluring beauty of the story line is something the Hollywood and other woods had en-cashed for over few decades and still planning to sell it to humans in future adding nearer to reality movies. The world of virtual reality on another side is growing leaps and bounds allowing us to use technology to have near real life experiences in various forms. Be it trainings, movies, business, adult content, gaming or the boring academia, it has it all. Couple of decades back itself the gaming industry had made use of quite a lot of first-person action games giving the player an experience worth remembering a ...

Invest with Discipline - SIP

Guys it has been long time since I wrote something. This time I thought of sharing my views on SIP(Systematic Investment Plan) into mutual funds. There are better ways of making quick bucks. But lets devote the whole blog to SIP. There are many of my friends who had invested into markets using the Mutual Funds just because of my advice. I would like to share my experience with mutual funds. Why should we invest in mutual fund and not directly to stock market? This can always be debated since on my blog on stock market I would tell learn to manage your money. But here I would tell you that lets leave it to experts. Same as when you need legal advice and assistance you look for lawyers, Doctors for medicine...to be precise..we always believe in experts...then why to take risk? Do you think they will leave their credibility at stake thinking its somebody elses money? Never...this is their job and will do their best. The risk of investing through mutual fund has lot of benefits: 1. It di...

Hamlet Of Spirits

The dusk had its charm in the dim moonlight, lighting the streets of the little hamlet where we were living for a generation. The village had not witnessed the neon lamps shining for decade and now the solar powered lamps had given up sooner than before connecting the power cables to them. The pothole rich roads had the tires of cars, scooters and stomach scattered all around our imagination while enjoying the bumping rides. Little kids had started to play in the puddles imagining the swimming pools of rich. Cricket was a common evening show in the fields around the village which presented itself as a town with the only bar claiming to be a pub. The rendezvous of rich and poor, heroes and villains, business tycoons and unemployed, while some gluttons roamed around them in much hopes of sumptuous meal before heading home after a days work. The only movie theatre was filled with drunkards every evening whistling to the tunes of the popular South Indian movies with dashing stuntmen and ra...

Up, Up and Away!

 Not sure whether we can call it as post-covid yet or new world for that matter. Maybe current times would be a good start. The corporate world had frozen the travels for a while and the official ones had become a rarity. The taxi to pick me up came right on time as expected, triggering the start of an official trip. As usual I had managed to pack more than required for a one day trip, almost competent for a week. A morning drive to Bangalore airport was very relaxing and had a meditating effect. This is an unspoken local secret, to be experienced only if you manage to travel before the traffic settles otherwise notorious Bangalore roads.  Before we get into the adventure, you need to be mindful about the not so exciting previous night. Indigo had promptly informed to do an online check-in and generate the boarding pass which I obliged without any challenge. However I assumed it is to avoid queueing in the airport, also for a fast drop out of baggage and I was proved right by ...

Reboot Earth - Soft vs Hard Reality

We don't get to see too many agreements between Philosophy, Religion, Science and Freethinkers. One thing that unites most of them is the theory of earth pressing its own reset button and in most cases they talk about floods or polar shifts.   “The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.” ―  Neil deGrasse Tyson Most times our actions justifies what once Mahatma Gandhi said,  “To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.” We remember earth on the earth day and love to light candle for few minutes to respect it. An act similar to performing a ritual post death of a beloved. The world is definitely filled with fine breed of people who are working on creating policies for the global betterment and sustain life in the planet earth. The problems like melting of arctic ice, reduction of amazon rainforest, destruction of ecosystem in various, extinction of wild animals, disappearance of - once abundant fishes in the oceans, ...