Manoj

Category: Philosophy

  • 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…

  • 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?”

  • If

    If

    “If you can..”, it begins and lines out an entire persona of an individual who has conquered life. A life that death feels sad when taking away – such is the life I desire. Here’s the poem by Rudyard Kipling – If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and…

  • Thoughts on friendship

    “I’ll get by with a little help from my friends” Pensive, withdrawn, lonely. The life of the world can be teeming around us, the high decibel sounds can be dinning in our ears and still we can be lonely. It is possible to be lonely in a crowd. Loneliness haunts the places where crowds gather.…

  • You had better be running!

    “Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows that it must run faster than the fastest lion, Or it will be killed” “Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle Or it will starve to death” It does not matter whether you are a gazelle…