The current flavour of Attalika Keshav Nivas is Lego. And not just the kid, the wife too has taken to the bricks like a fish to water. Keshav spends many an hour assisting the build, and then more time playing with (breaking) the apparatus thus assembled. He also reinforces his interest by watching Lego Dinosaurs …
My son loves dinosaurs. Until they appear on TV that is. We tried to show him the OG Jurassic Park today, and well, let’s just say that it didn’t go as intended. Anyways, I never thought that children his age would love Dinos of all things. I mean cute cuddly animals yes, but prehistoric lizards …
Is your dream too big? Or too small? Or do you have one at all? Do they say its not going to happen, this dream of yours Do they make fun of you? Do they tell you to aim lower, to be less reckless To think of a stable future, rather than an unknown one? …
ईशावास्यमिदं सर्वं यत्किञ्च जगत्यां जगत् । तेन त्यक्तेन भुञ्जीथा मा गृधः कस्यस्विद्धनम् ॥ īśāvāsyamidaṃ sarvaṃ yatkiñca jagatyāṃ jagat | tena tyaktena bhuñjīthā mā gṛdhaḥ kasyasviddhanam || Isha Upanishad The essence of this opening verse from the Isha Upanishad is – Whatever exists in this world, originates from one source. And so, do not covet, for whose is wealth? …
पितृदेवातिथीपिता विद्याप्रदानेन पण्डिताग्रेसरं सुतम् ।यदि कुर्यात्सुतस्यैतत् महत् साह्यमुदीर्यते ॥ The best thing parents can do for their children is to prepare them stand foremost in the assembly of the learned. किंवा तप: कृतं पित्रा प्राप्तुमेतादृरां सुतम् ।इति लोकै: स्तुत्: पुत्र: पितु: स्यादुपकारक: The son’s duty to his father is to make world ask, ‘By what …
I read a piece by Richard Branson where he spoke of applied maths, the mathematics that you need in real life. I have also been thinking on these lines from quite a while. This has been accelerated by the thought of Rohāmrta starting school in a few years from now. I studied math upto the …
The election results are out – and so are Mamta didi and Stalin the wig. The biggest upset of course, is by the Whistle. That’s the party symbol of TVK, the two year old party started by Joseph Vijay, and now on course to form the government, with the Thalapathy as the Chief Minister. Wouldn’t …
संयोगाभावे गुरुत्वात् पतनम् ॥५।१।७॥ Saṃyogābhāve gurutvāt patanam (5.1.7)In the absence of action, the object falls by gravity. कार्य्यविरोधि कर्म ॥१।१।१४॥ Kāryyavirodhi karma (1.1.14).Action is opposed by reaction. These are extracts from the Vaiśeṣika Sūtra and are attributed to Kaṇāda. Sound familiar? Also, have you ever heard of कणाद (Kaṇāda)? He was an ancient Indian Rishi and philosopher who founded …
The reason every wisdom tradition, from Taoism to modern neuroscience, identifies uncertainty tolerance as the fundamental skill is that uncertainty is the essential nature of existence itself—it’s the gap between cause and effect where all possibility lives. When the Buddha spoke of impermanence as the source of suffering, when quantum physics revealed the probabilistic nature …
I chanced upon a little something that I had wrote a couple of years back, and thought I should share it again. Here it is:) The two sides of life. Witnessed on my way back home today. Stuck in a traffic jam, we realized that the cause was an accident just ahead. Two ambulances, many …
