Picking up where I left off

It has been a long while since I blogged last. I kept making excuses as to why I did not blog. Like all excuses, these ones were pretty lame too. I guess its time I buried my lethargy and got back to doing what I enjoyed doing before. Blogging and writing are excercises to your


M.K. Gandhi, Nobel Peace Prize and a little bit of history

This year’s nobel peace prize was awarded to IAEA and Mohamed ElBaradei its General Secretary. Rosa Parks, the pioneer of the american civil rights movement died yesterday. These two events, unrelated, got me rethinking about a question that had been nagging me for a long time, but had never found the answer to, viz. “Why


Logic – Flawed at best

Ravages‘ post about god and religion (trackbacked to my previous post) has attracted a lot of debate. The one most interesting to me was about logic. It is amusing how engineering, scientists swear by logic like it was the holy grail of truth and knowledge. I used to be one of them, till I read


Organized Religion – A Perspective

After writing abt my experience with preachers in the previous post, I kinda figured it would make sense if I wrote about what I think of organized religion. At the risk of pissing people off, I am being candid here. I use the term ‘organized religion’ in the same tenor as ‘organized crime’. There is