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Empathy - Misplaced?

The recent unfolding of incidents around my home state Kerala where a pregnant elephant ate a pineapple filled with firecrackers which ultimately resulted in the untimely death of the poor animal. The image of the elephant standing in the middle of a river unable to control the pain melted the hearts of people around the globe whose aftermath made a multitude of social media stories, cartoons and hate posts. If you are someone who has not yet read about this news, Google it and give it a good read. While this incident shook me like most others, it also raised a lot of questions of our feeling of Empathy towards our fellow beings and animals. For now, I would like to focus on the empathy we feel towards animals in general. Now that you know of such a cruelty that fell upon an unsuspecting gentle giant, take a moment to realize that one of the most loyal beings to us humans - dogs; are considered a delicacy in some parts of the world. They continue to be slaughtered on an daily basis and...
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The Trenches in Life

"Watch out! There is a trench lying ahead" - this fair warning to any person going about his comes as a godsend advise. But life as we know it presents us with many such metaphorical trenches as we go about living it. To a certain point in life as we age, we are surrounded by certain guardian angels in the form of parents, teachers, friends and the like who keep us informed and insulated from falling down and even if we do, they make sure that the damage is minimal. Once you start making your life decisions that is when the level of awareness and the responsibility of being alert increases. As you start out in the early ages of adulthood full of vigor and the heart to conquer anything, the World as you know if opens its doors and nothing is impossible. Now everyone has their own dreams and aspirations in life, most of the time which we are able to achieve in one way or the other. The initial pitfalls or trenches we are faced with as we start out are seen as insignificant a...
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Being Yourself

'Be Yourself' - how often did any one of us hear these words thrown at us through the course of our lives? I am writing this post with my experiences growing up in Southern India and later on travelling outside the country for work, so I have been fortunate enough to experience the cultures from two countries on different sides of the globe. From a very little age we have always been told to follow certain ideals/morals/codes of conduct and as life progresses to follow the same set of thoughts from successful people. This is not something new and has been around us for quite a long time, it is only natural for someone to look at something more dominant or successful than themselves and aspire for that. We all have known great legends who had followed their role model's footsteps and became successful in their own ways. But when you think about it from another perspective, it is all about more and more people falling into the same pattern which is like this invisible die-...
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Thoughts on the "Most Important thing in the World"

The very realization of the Most Important thing in the World came to my mind very recently and ever since then the thought of it has been echoing through my mind. No matter whatever we do, and whatever we do not; everything has a direct relation to what can be easily considered as the utmost valuable thing in this World. I am not sure as to when it had come into existence in this World formally, but I am pretty sure that it used to matter right from the beginning of the Universe, probably even beyond that. Even though with all this greatness and the countless power it possesses, it is one of the most easy to obtain and even more easy to lose possession. It is a known and perhaps and unknown fact to many of us that the more we come to know of its virtue, the more knowledgeable the person becomes. It can be said without argument that some of the best brains in this world have worked hard to harness its power, and only by knowing how to control it would give answers to every questi...
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Thoughts on the Decreasing Morale

To write on a topic after this long has been a thought on my mind for quite some time now, but somehow it did not happen. Now, even though late it is the right time that I share my thoughts on the topic which has been much talked about in our country during the last few months. There is a lot more to talk and write on this topic, but I have just consolidated the thoughts running across in my mind for each of you to ponder upon. By now, most of you might would have a fair idea on what this post would be. Yes, it is about the horrifying and very sad incidents of violence towards women happening around us. To look at the reasons behind such intentions, there are multiple faces and varying provocations. First, let us look at the current society in which we are living today. India is slowly emerging as a Global power and is in the transition path of moving from a Developing to Developed nation, during this phase what strikes me the most is the way in which the people of India have tr...
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It Happens

Today as I sit down to key in some words on my blog again, there are so many thoughts lingering around in my mind. Whether I would be able to express them all is a tough question. It has been a while since I took to writing which has now taken the digital form, yes all the writings which were previously mostly through a fountain pen and a diary have now been replaced by Blogs. The very same fingers which were once used to hold my favorite 'Hero' and 'Parker' pens are now running around in my laptop keyboard randomly picking up words. I feel the digital media have brought us a step closer to realize our thoughts, the thing being now our fingers are more at ease in remembering which keys to look for and type in as I think. After a failed attempt at daily Diary writing, I did not pay much attention to write anything creative or otherwise and most of my words were captured in business communication to the Clients and the like. My recent write ups came in the form of Film...
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Thoughts on the Human Mind

The human mind, one of the most complicated, vast, highly responsive part of the human body. The complexity of the mind is so that it is very easy for anybody to get lost wandering into the thoughts. And this complexity makes the mind all the more difficult to understand it and bring it under control. The mind stands our as the central hub where all the information processing happens and all the commands are given out to the body. It can be very closely compared to a Army commander in charge of his forces. And in a war it all depends on how well you manage your forces, how well you control and co-ordinate them. The Vastness of the mind is yet another astounding factor that has left many great people puzzled and many others in search for it. The kind of thoughts that can be contained in a human mind are so diverse and enormous that it is very difficult to control the input of thoughts into the mind. Exploring a human mind alone can take infinite time as no body as ever been able to...
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