The Uninspiring Title

The title of this post comes from the famous Micheal Jackson song Man the mirror. For those of you who have heard the song you will, I hope realize the significance of the post. For those of you who haven't, you simply must. The reason this post comes laden with pretext is because of what happened yesterday. yesterday as I got into work at 10:15 running a little late thanks to the Delhi Metro, all I was concerned with was reaching office and starting work. As I finally marched into office and powered up my computer, I was already is a foul mood since the internet was acting up. Finally, at around 11 I finally logged on to Twitter and that is when I saw it. Twitter-sphere was rife with news about the Boston Marathon bombing .  Although my heart went out to the little 8 year old girl who had lost her life today and the others, I am embarrassed to say I wasn't all that perturbed. I may be only 23 (yes according to SOME that is young) but  growing up in the 21st cen...

I’ve recently been introduced to www.coursera.org by a friend. If you are fond of broadening your horizons aka studying about new things, well then coursera is the thing for you. How does it work you ask? Well I’m really not in the mood of explaining the whole process (read I have NO idea how it happens) so you can watch the TED Talk by Daphne Kohler the Stanford-professor-cum-dynamo behind the project. So my first course is called “Know Thyself”, it is a sort Philosophy for Dummies class by Prof Mitchell Green of the University of Virginia, and the course and the Prof are both agreeing with me well so far. So since I am half way through the 10 week course I decided to give you a crash course in philosophy so far. Below is a list of the most important things I have learnt from each of these renowned Philosophers. Socrates: The unexamined life is not worth living. So constant self-examination read day dreaming is not a colossal waste of time. It is in fact intrinsically p...