Expectations? Surely you’re joking!
With all of my experiences and relationships thus far in life, I have made a framework for myself which defines my interaction model with the world at large. This is how it works.
Category: Life Ordinary
In other fake news..
Went by the title, did you? Ha! This is less about fake news, and more about what could be called its second order effect. In Against Empathy, Paul Bloom writes about how many beliefs are not the products of reasoning, and gives sports teams fans and even political support as examples. He also brings up the […]
No help for it
No, not the help. A different kind of noun. Reflecting on a few recent events, I realised that we are capable of providing different kinds of help. There’s the help that we think we can give. It’s the story we tell ourselves so as not to make ourselves seem unkind or miserly with respect to […]
The intrigues of my empathy
Simran was on TV, and though I didn’t watch the entire movie, I was intrigued enough to read up about Sandeep Kaur – the Bombshell Bandit, whose life it is vaguely based on. A tragic story of a 24 year old, who will most likely be unable to live what one might call a normal […]
The best kept secrets
There was a time, a long long ago, in the era of cassettes, when one had no idea about whether the entire soundtrack of the movie would be good. One just bought it on the first day of release, sometimes relying on the music director/s, or snippets heard as ‘forthcoming attractions’ from the previous soundtrack released […]