Manoj

Category: World & Me

  • Adapt or perish!

    Adapt or perish!

    As humans, we are at the top of the animal world, only because of our ability to adapt. Also, “survival of the fittest” does not really apply to human beings anymore. We have become good at protecting and supporting the not-so-fit among us. In the age of information, it is now the “survival of the…

  • Growing up

    Growing up

    Growing up in life, I have heard a lot of adages. One of the things my dad used to say whenever I demanded things, just because my friends had or did, was — “If your friends ran and jumped into a well, would you do the same?” I wasn’t bold enough to tell my dad…

  • ಈ ಕಾಲದ ರಾಜಕಾರಣಿ!

    ಈ ಕಾಲದ ರಾಜಕಾರಣಿ!

    ದುಡ್ಡಿನ ಮದ ತಲೆಯೇರಿ, ಅತಿಯಾಸೆಯ ಭೂತ ಬೆನ್ನೇರಿ, ಒ೦ದು ರಾಜಕಾರಣಿ ಕೂಗಿದ, ನಿಖಿಲ್ ಎಲ್ಲಿದ್ಯಪ್ಪಾ? ರೇಶನ್ ಅಂಗಡಿಯ ಸಾಲಿನಲ್ಲಿ, ತರಕಾರಿಯ ಮಾರುಕಟ್ಟೆಯಲ್ಲಿ, ಒಮ್ಮೆಯೂ ಕಾಣದೆ ಜನ ಕೇಳಿದರು, ನಿಖಿಲ್ ಎಲ್ಲಿದ್ಯಪ್ಪಾ? ತಾತನ ತೊಡೆ ಹತ್ತಿ, ಅಪ್ಪನ ಭುಜ ಏರಿ, ಜನರ ತಲೆಮೇಲೆ ಕಾಲಿಡಲು ಬ೦ದಿರುವ, ನಿಖಿಲ್ ಎಲ್ಲಿದ್ಯಪ್ಪಾ? ಅರಹತೆ ಇಲ್ಲದ ಅಸ್ತಿತ್ವ, ಬುದ್ಧಿ ಇಲ್ಲದ ಜ್ಞಾನಿ, ತಾನೇ ಎದುರು ಬ೦ದಾಗ, ಕನ್ನಡಿ ಕೇಳಿತು – “ನಿಖಿಲ್ ಎಲ್ಲಿದ್ಯಪ್ಪಾ?”

  • Nature makes the man

    Nature makes the man

    I have always wondered why people live in places with harsh climate – why struggle every day as if it’s a battle to be won? Having been in Sweden for a while now, has brought some perspective into that thought. For most people, their place of birth is their home – the place where they…

  • The UN sexism Google search ads are wrong, technically

    The truth is, we live in a male dominated society where men enjoy a privilege of exercising certain rights that do not extend to women. This culture has transcended generations and centuries. And it is going to take longer than that to clean up. Why? Why did things come to be as they are? Are…