Milinda and Nagasena: The Art of Debating
King Milinda was a powerful and intelligent ruler. He was also curious about Buddhism. One day, he met a sage…
The story of our Brain
Our species is unique in that we are born very immature, and our brains take a long 25 years to…
Conservatives are from Mars Liberals are from Venus
Conservatives are baffled by the liberals’ tendency to mock their own group. Liberals are perplexed by the conservatives’ readiness to…
India that is Bharat
What’s in a name? Names do not matter, but narratives do. People do not like or hate a name, they…
Book Review: Being You
– A New Science of Consciousness by Anil Seth “… the notion that there is a single unique conscious self…
Why We See the Old Lady on the Moon – Seeking meaning in random stuff
Have you seen the rabbit on the moon? Maybe an old lady? We have now landed on the dark side…
Music Does Not Exist!
“Now what is “music” – a sequence of vibrations in the air, or a succession of emotional responses in a…
Unlearning the rainbow: People you trust might be wrong
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut How…
Illusion of Reality
One of my favourite travel memories was the unexpected view of the Panchachuli peaks on a full-moon night. Imagine you…
The Colonisation of our Mind
Colonisation has implanted ideas (cultural memes) in Indian minds so deeply that we do not notice how often it controls…