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Education, history, womanhood and a Facebook discussion

Posted in Awareness, Soul on May 6, 2010 | 2 Comments »

A provocative discussion started at Facebook by my friend Abhishek, worth mentioning here. There are many people commented in the thread – I am just pasting the conversation(with minor editing) between me and Abhishek. Abhishek started the thread: We say the education in early days was in-depth and substancial…..was it because all teachers were ‘Guru’s [...]

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A Brilliant Duo

Posted in Lyrics, Song, Soul on January 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Have you ever found your favorite song not listenable at times? I have many in that category, but timeless Gulzar- RD Burman songs almost never fail to deliver. Every time, I cannot help thinking about how remarkably these songs have been created.

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Diamonds and Rust – Joan Baez

Posted in Singers, Song, Soul on January 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

About 3 years ago Tinkerbell first introduced me to the works of Joan Baez, and soon ‘Diamonds and Rust’ by Baez made its way to my ‘Top 25 played songs’ in iPod/iTunes. In the song, written and performed in 1975, Baez recounts an out-of-the-blue phone call from an old lover, which sends her a decade [...]

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Predictably Irrational

Posted in Science, Soul, tagged , on May 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Image via CrunchBase We love to be told we’re smarter than we thought we were, but a surprise bestseller by an MIT professor has a less happy message: We’re consistently irrational much of the time. While there’s no cure, there’s hope – if we can learn to outsmart ourselves. Dan Ariely is an Israeli professor [...]

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