People who are averse to having kids and live a DINK life. It’s perfectly fine. But they are missing on one key thing in life:
The purest form of love in the world is what a parent has for their kid. Their own blood. It may not be vice versa. Relationships, marriages often devolve into transactional setups. Love between a couple diminishes with time & becomes a most optimal peaceful settlement. But the affection for your kid is pure.
If you are okay with not experiencing it, it’s totally fine. :)
Open letter to Indians in America.
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Dear brothers and sisters from Bharat:
Like I did 37 years ago, you arrived in America with no money but with a good education and cultural heritage from Bharat. You achieved outstanding success. America was good to us. For that we must remain grateful - gratitude is our Bharatiya way.
Yet today, a significant number of Americans, may be not the majority but not too far from it either, believe that Indians "take away" American jobs and our success in America was unfairly earned.
You may think the next election will fix this, but your choice would be between people who hate our Bharatiya civilisation and people who hate civilisation itself. That is the "hard right" vs "woke left" battle. You are mere bystanders to that conflict.
Meanwhile there is one thing that is true now and will be true in the future: the respect Indians command world-wide will substantially depend on the fortunes of India herself. If India remains poor, the woke left will give us moral lectures with pity and the hard right, different moral lectures with scorn ("hellhole") and we must not confuse either with respect.
Respect in today's world, along with prosperity and security, comes from one source: a nation's technological prowess. India produces sufficient brain power to achieve that prowess but alas we exported so much of that talent, particularly to America. As we develop that prowess in India, our civilisational strength will assert itself.
As difficult as it is for many of you to contemplate this, please come back home. Bharat Mata needs your talent. Our vast youthful population needs the technology leadership you gained over the years to guide them towards prosperity. Let's do it with a missionary zeal.
Respectfully
Sridhar Vembu
Of course students will use AI for assignments.
It's a wake-up call to reform education -> abandon grades, make assignments optional, professors should give feedback to those who submit, but pass everyone in the class automatically.
Learning happens best when it's self-driven.
Long before Europe had its first atheists, ancient India had the Charvakas — bold thinkers who doubted everything. Emerging around 600 BCE, the Charvaka (Lokayata) school was India’s earliest materialist and rationalist philosophy. Attributed to Brihaspati, they rejected the Vedas, karma, rebirth, and any afterlife, insisting that only direct perception (pratyaksha) is a valid source of truth.
They believed the body and consciousness end together — no soul survives death. Their saying captured their worldview: “As long as you live, live happily; even borrow to drink ghee.” Pleasure wasn’t sin — it was the only certainty in an uncertain world.
Their original Bārhaspatya Sūtras are lost, but echoes survive in critics’ works like Madhavacharya’s Sarva-darśana-saṅgraha (14th century) and Jayanta Bhatta’s Nyāya Manjarī. Charvakas existed centuries before Epicurus (341 BCE) or Democritus (460 BCE), making them pioneers of empirical, secular reasoning.
Erased by orthodoxy yet impossible to silence, they remain a reminder that skepticism wasn’t imported into India — it was born here.
(Via ChatGPT + random research)
If you expose yourself to an environment long enough, you become subject to its local attractors.
It’s why people who hang out in casinos eventually gamble.
Why people who spend enough time in high-pressure workplaces start adopting their colleagues’ habits.
Why students surrounded by studious peers usually work harder.
Choose your environment wisely.
A great manager can turn good people into stars who are high-performing, energetic, loyal, long-tenure.
A bad manager? They can take talented, driven folks and drain them into sluggish, excuse-making underperformers.
People don’t fail. Poor leadership does.
Lead better. Or lose your best.
Curiosity has an exponential positive loop.
The more you’re curious, the more things you find to be curious about.
This is why the best antidote to boredom is curiosity.
Education minister should set a cap of how much a private school can charge. Govt really needs to intervene. This way its just going to discourage Indian youth to conceive babies