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Anand Kumar- The Dhronacharya of Ekalavyas Source:Indiatoday.in     If Albert Einstein would have seen me right now, he would have described me as a photon. Because I have an immense packet of energy inside me that is ready to burst through words into this blog. Perhaps not Albert Einstein, but my roommate would sure agree on this provided the squeaks and thrills I went through while watching this film. For those who couldn't guess it yet, it was the "Super 30" film on an ace mathematician who helped 30 cool and talented kids with a curse of being poor ro crack IIT;the most intense competitive exam of India,like olympics for engineers.     Before I get into the film I would like to say a few words on Art or Kala. Art is something that is always ahead of reality, always going beyond the boundaries of society, limitless. In this picture the Art of ugliness of society in relation with education was portrayed so boldly that you couldn't turn your eyes away from it. As I...

Source:iStock A TOOLKIT AND A MACHINE   Once upon a time there were two kids living in the same neighborhood but went to two different schools.  One school taught the child all the concepts and the skills necessary to make the child as competent as possible. It pruned and trimmed the child's way of thinking by feeding the child content that would make her employable for a job in future.  The other school had a different approach. It didn't focus too much on teaching the child the content but instead taught the child how to seek knowledge. This school taught her how important it was to always learn something new and laid the foundation for her to be enthusiastic about whatever she wanted to learn or work upon. It didn't limit her teaching to whatever was provided in the books but asked her to explore beyond papers and see the world through different lenses of philosophy, science, math, art, nature, society or from a lens of her own creation. It didn't prune her way of...

How To Be Successfully Poor   Series:Breaking Bad PC:NSF Music Magazine In the entire series of Breaking Bad, this dialogue somehow stuck to me. I watched it when I was 20, and now when I am 22 years old and on the brink of my academic life; I am starting to realize the value of this line. It is time to decide,and the decision has to be yours. Rich Vs Poor-The Bigger Picture As I start to read the book Rich Dad and Poor Dad(there's a reason it is so hyped up,highly recommended); I start to realize that being rich or being poor doesn't necessarily have to be about money.  When we talk about these two groups, we say that the rich have money whereas the poor don't. The middle class have money but their wants are not affordable with the money they have so they stay in the middle. But this is just a skewed view of the picture. It is not whole,infact far from the actual reality.  In simple terms, you can have money but still be poor. On the other hand, you can have nothing, you...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWASeaYuHZo Coming Out Of The Closet-I have an Eating Disorder. Imagine your life has a ride called the weighing machine. And you are standing on it.Everybody watches you take the ride.The rule is: you don't have to go too high up,neither can you go too down low. Up, Up,Up you are going! You are doing it wrong,come down!come down!....what an idiot,you look terrible from up there,nobody will love you if you look like this; and the disgusted looks on everybody's faces as I rose higher. Then I listened. I listened to them and I came down. I chose to do what everyone said to come down: exercise and dieting. Lower and lower i went until suddenly I heard them shouting again. You looked so much better before! Why did you go low. Go high! You look too weak. You look too thin. Where are those chubby cheeks? Where are those big boobs you had? There was so much chaos and noise that I got tired of listening and going according to what they said.But I never...

A SONG FOR YOU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WTt69YO2VI This is a song for the birthday blues, For all the beautiful people dreading a day before the day they were born I write this for you, yet there are so many others who feel just like you. For one too many reasons unknown, You feel you want to spend this day alone. But what of the excuses you give, the overwhelm,the anticipation,the unknown, Will you feel the same,if they all go? I wish this day would answer some of your questions, And grant you one of a kind experiences, With the ones you love. And a day of peace, With the ones you are stuck! I wish you find your answers, To find out who you are, And who you want to be, Just like Dory found Marlin, May you find your true friends, And fulfill in your quest of finding Nemo(your dreams) And finally may you get the love you deserve, Just like Elio found Oliver; A beautiful journey,if not forever. A hope that love never gets lost from your life, And a prayer that you find a home, Th...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV1FrqwZyKw     Recommended to listen to this song during/after reading the blog.    GENDERS-LABEL OR NO LABEL? Like a spider's web entwined into our very existence, Name yourself a man or a woman;the threads will weave your living, Defy the label, and thou shalt be eaten. There are 117 types of genders,Mehboob said. Also, there are around 27-28 pronouns existing as of now.  But Mehboobi(as i call him lovingly),there are still so many people who don't want to be given any label at all,not even queer.  Well i guess that's the thing,Mehboob said.....what if we just didn't have any labels at all in the first place? Well then we would have to look at each other as human beings; I said. And that means we would have to look at each other's real selves, who we are under our clothes and garments. Can we do that, when our whole life is built on pretense? The very word of gender is socially constructed. For society's convenience.You kn...

What To Say If Someone Close To You Lost Someone... Over Again- https://youtu.be/eTaFjy8BgGw - Mike Shinoda, Post Traumatic Album....Recommended to listen to this song during/after reading this blog. Empathy Room So the reason you came here is because you just experienced your close friend, boyfriend, friend, office colleague, any one that mattered to you enough to read this article; lost someone dear to them. It's funny isn't it, you will find so many articles and posts on what to do if you  loose someone; but what to do if your someone close to you is miserable and in utter despair,and you have no idea how to console them cause you were never told what to do if this happens...... Maybe you are here because this recently happened with you and you didn't know how to handle the situation: what to say. what to do. Or you just are prudent and want to know beforehand what to say/do when a situation like this pops up out of nowhere. Or you just witnessed something like this happ...