Every once in a while I come up with an idea for a book. I have always wanted to write a book, a collection of short stories. The ideas are usually themes to group a bunch of stories together, something unique and crazy. Usually I share these crazy ideas with crazier ppl to gauge the … Read more
I was conversing in the evening with a friend about my last (10 min) play, The Asimov Connection. Frankly, it was one of the more popular of my plays and some friends(who loved it) keep reminding me about how much they loved it (and I love being reminded, trust me). We were talking about how … Read more
Bhutan drived an urge inside me to delve deeper into Buddhism. A combination of that urge and working on my 12 book project(reading a book every month) for this year, I first picked up “An Introduction to the Teachings and Philosophy of the Dalai Lama in His Own Words” and now started reading Buddha, series … Read more
There is a scene in Haider where the inconsolable protagonist tells his mother (translated ofcourse) “Why do you only see the world from behind your eyes, you should once try and see it from another’s perspective…” Blinded Perspective almost always leads to Confirmation Bias. Confirmation Bias (as noted by Wikipedia) is the tendency to search … Read more
“Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. Some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. Some lose both and become accepted” ~ Charles Bukowski This quote by Bukowski always throws me into a whirlpool of thoughts. The idea of how honest one is to one’s chosen artform is debatable, there might not actually be … Read more