Reaching There

In a project sometimes the planning becomes too complicated leading to a blurry picture of the end result and a disenchanted team. To make it simple....it sucks, it sucks like a wet dry wax (I would never forget this quote from Mr. Mark Ruffalo). It really sucks! A whole lot of projects have failed in the past - one of the primary reasons is growing complexity. Or is it growing complexity or lack of efforts to increase simplicity? Are simplicity and complexity correlated or as a physicist would say the two properties are inversely proportional. I too have been guilty of making things too complicated....really...duh! In my personal life I clutter a lot of emotions that overwhelm in the most dire times of my life. Those are the times "picking my brain" really helps. It's the time when you throw out the complexities one by one. I don't have a practical methodology that can help you to make it simple. I can only say when times are tough; just take a step back an...

My head's a stereo I can't turn off.  You said I should learn to sing along. My sentiments exactly when I listen to any Matt Nathanson song. I have been a fan ever since I listened to "I Saw" about four years back. I can say he is my all-time favourite singer and songwriter. He has this genius-like ability to bring together unrelated words into a coherent string of poetic melody and that oozes raw energy from each and every word. From "Farewell, December" I felt alive, for the first time in my life. I held you tight, and the crowd sang Auld Lang Syne. As a writer I love the "raw" energy that comes out of something that's done without inhibitions and boundaries. In his Facebook page Matt Nathanson says something that we should keep in mind every time we dare ( or dream ) to create. music deserves more than that. it deserves honesty, at all costs. it deserves our uninhibited, weird selves. So next time an inspirations makes i...

While waiting for my friends Inside The Hindu Temple of Greater Chicago a thought came racing to my mind. I was awestruck by the rawness of it.  It was a simple question - do I believe in God or do I believe in the existence of God? If I believed in God I would consider myself the luckiest person alive.  However if I just believed in the existence of God I would be always filled with a doubt. I'm trying to move from the believe in existence to unwavering belief. Where are you? Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. Abraham Lincoln  Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_god.html#C7J2sqUyEBgTraGS.99 

AT THE END by Pushkar Bajpai SCENE 1 FADE IN INT: A BUSTLING OFFICE IN A HIGH-RISE. PEOPLE STARING AT THEIR COMPUTER MONITORS. A YOUNG MAN INCLINING BACK ON HIS CHAIR WITH HIS HANDS RESTING ON HIS CHIN. ANOTHER MAN STANDING BESIDES HIM WITH HIS LEGS SHAKING NERVOUSLY. MAN (slightly perturbed): The deadline is in just another hour! YOUNG MAN (calm and relaxed): Oye! It's fine. I kinda work better under pressure. I know about the deadline, just chill...this will be the best report..I tell you (smiles). FADE OUT SCENE 2 FADE IN INT: A ROOM CLUTTERED WITH BOOKS AND USED CLOTHES LYING AROUND. A YOUNG MAN LYING LAZILY ON A BED STARING AT THE CEILING. A NONCHALANT LOOK ON HIS FACE. FADE IN YOUNG MAN (wondering and talking to himself) What time is it? ....oh my God! I need to get up and have my breakfast. (phone rings) Hey, I'll be there in another 1 hour...I promise (he jumps up to get ready). FADE OUT SCENE 3 FADE I...

A lot of theories of everything - that is the state of science in these modern times. There is a classical theory of physics describing the motion of macroscopic objects like you, me and the millions of cars buzzing around us.  And there is a quantum theory that cuts the atoms into pieces million million (for exact measurement check out here ) times smaller until it starts behaving like strings in a space where more than four dimensions are compressed in their wavy dance! There are a few theories out there that are trying to explain the creation of universe. Ever since Edwin Hubble observed that universe is expanding the scientists, physicists, astronomers and almost everybody else is talking about the Big Bang . There is almost a theory of everything. A theory goes that our universe is like a soap bubble in a bath of soap bubbles - a multiverse . The number of universes in a multiverse are infinite. Is the multiverse itself infinite? In this infinite universe ...

I'm not a Physicist. However the wondrous nature of the universe entices me rather than the complexity and uncertainty of the mathematics that is used to describe the rules that govern the universe we live in. Apologies to my mathematician friends but I don't "feel" the equations yet. Christian Huygens attributed certain characteristics of light, like change of speed in different medium and refraction, to the wave-like behaviour of light. Sir Issac Newton firmly believed in the particle-like nature of light based on his observations on the phenomenon of reflection & refraction. Maxwell, Planck and Einstein later provided sufficient mathematical, empirical and theoretical evidence to convince the scientific to sing the song of wave-particle duality. It's a strange behaviour to say the least, something that behaves in two different ways simultaneously; kinda like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde of R. L. Stevenson. It's a cumbersome process to come up...

I am fascinated by the idea of aliens. I do believe in the line from the movie Contact - if we're all alone in this universe, it sure seems like an awful waste of space . On a humorous side note, even Steven Spielberg believes in aliens ; didn't surprise me at all! The idea of alien seems to bifurcate the otherwise open-minded scientific community into 'Hmm-not-so-sure' and 'We-should-keep-looking'. The proof of life is evident in conditions labeled hazardous by homo sapiens' norms. In fact, Biology has a word for organisms that survive in extreme conditions - extremophile. Microbes were found thriving in extreme conditions of Mariana Trench , 11 kilometers deep and a pressure of over 1000 times we human beings face on surface. "Life finds a way", said Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum's character in the movie Jurassic Park). Despite being afflicted with cardinal sins and many more; us humans are capable of reaching highest of achievements. ...