EAT YOUR MEAT: NO REGRET
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by Subhrashis Adhikari
3y ago
We are born naked, wet and crying… and then things start getting worse. But, no one said that life is fair. On second thoughts, life has a weird sense of humour. It is equally unfair to everybody. Which kind of makes it fair. So, when a lion hunts and kills to stay alive, it is kind of fair if not lovely. What is however unfair is to call a lion aggressive because it ate a scared dear. Lions are aggressive not because of what they eat, but because of evolution. The genes that care for the life of a deer went extinct out of hunger. But the amazing thing is that, they are actually very peace ..read more
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The 'Prince' who Slapped the British Officer
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by Subhrashis Adhikari
3y ago
It was a regular day at Government College of Art & Craft of Kolkata on the morning of 8th December 1930. There were over 11,000 students in the college, majority of whom came not from Kolkata but from other parts of the Presidency, especially East Bengal. 16 year old Barindra Chandra Nag, a talented art enthusiast, came to Kolkata from Dhaka to study in the arts college. He was staying at his uncles house. Mukul Chandra Dey was the principal of Government College of Art & Craft of Kolkata at that time. Under his influence Indian identity was established in the arts taught in the coll ..read more
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In the Land of Pharaohs
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by Subhrashis Adhikari
3y ago
Two things comes to your mind when you think of Egypt: Pyramid – the wonder of the ancient world, and the blue river along whose bank a great civilization flourished.  According to Arab legend when God created nations it gifted it with counterbalanced qualities. Syrians received intelligence with fatuousness, Iraqis got pride for hypocrisy, and Arabs had good health in return for hardship. To Egypt he gave abundance at the cost of humility. Cleopatra VII Philopator (51 BC – 30 BC), the beautiful and charming queen of the mighty Egyptian Empire, was anything but. That would turn out t ..read more
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Who were the Original Indians?
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by Subhrashis Adhikari
3y ago
The river knows, they say. Like time she flows without complain, silently observing the rise and fall of civilizations. Humans share an intimate relation with the rivers. While she quenches the thirst of these inquisitive apes and provide them with the vital fertile plains, humans make her immortal through prayers, songs and art. Human civilization is like the river. When it becomes stagnant, it becomes polluted. As long as it is active and flowing, it is graceful. Most of us want to hold on to our culture and the values of our ancestors. Being grounded to the roots is a great thing. But ..read more
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Your Every Action Change your Brain
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by Subhrashis Adhikari
3y ago
Our habits create our identity.   Our brain is plastic, which means that our actions can change it. This amazing ability of our brain is called Neuroplasticity. Our brain is not like computers. The memories that we have in our brain alter over time. Every time we recall a past memory it gets renewed based on our current emotional state.  Every time we recall a past memory it gets renewed based on our current emotional state.  A recent publication by Horvath et al. (2020) investigates how addiction to smartphones changes our brain structure. Though the sample size of the ..read more
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WABI SABI - Japanese Secret to Happy Life
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by Subhrashis Adhikari
4y ago
We went to a newly open Japanese fast-food restaurant in Gurgaon. Because of the huge amount of competition among the restaurants in this part of India most restaurants try to be perfect. But this one was not just unique because it was the first Japanese fast-food  restaurant in Gurgaon, but it was also rusty in its appearance.  Imperfection has its own charm. It made the restaurant stand out. I had the opportunity to talk to the owner over the tasty perfectly imperfect rice burgers. He was a Bengali married to a Japanese woman. We had a long discussion about the diffe ..read more
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What is the root cause of religion? FUNGUS!
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by Subhrashis Adhikari
4y ago
We tend to think of moral values as hard truth, and sometimes even divine. But are they? Religions like Buddhism or Confucianism does not need god to be moral. Acceptance of a creator is not a prerequisite for existence of morality. Moreover, morality is not just a gift given to humans. It exists in other warm blooded creatures too.  Before 270 million years ago all animals were cold blooded. There is an hypotheses that warm bloodedness evolved as a protection against fungal infection. Fungus could not survive the high body temperature. It also had an added advantage. The w ..read more
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POWER OF STORIES:
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by Subhrashis Adhikari
4y ago
https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2015/02/01/21/16/chalkboard-620316_960_720.jpg All powerful stories originate from noble ideas. Think about the core idea of communism. The goal was a stateless and classless society where everyone was equal. Unfortunately reality was far from the idealism. Stories fail when the ideas are either not clear or too difficult to grasp. When we create one clear and crisp story we can bring billions together.  Two most powerful stories of modern world that binds a group together are religion and nationalism. These stories are powerful because they are simple a ..read more
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3 Wishes - A Short Story
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by Subhrashis Adhikari
4y ago
There lived a man who was eternally dissatisfied with his life. He never smiled, and always found reasons to criticize everyone. One night he got lucky. On his way home he met a Genie who felt pity for the sad man. The Genie was dark blue in colour and looked malignant and monstrous.  At first the man was scared, but the friendly smile of the giant assured him. The Genie said that he will grant him three wishes, provided he agreed to one simple condition. The man was ecstatic. ‘Finally, my life was going to change for good’, he thought. His first wish was to be rich. The Genie reminde ..read more
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The Revolt of 1857
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by Subhrashis Adhikari
4y ago
REF:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Rebellion_of_1857 On 10th May 1857 numerous Indian sepoys from Meerut were imprisoned because they refused to use the new cartridges. Sir John Malcolm, witness to the Sepoy Mutiny, noted that the Indian sepoys were loyal to the EIC until 1796CE. What happened after 1796CE? The structure of the regiments changed as more European officers joined the army and Indian sepoys got stuck in the lower ranks. They were also forced to travel overseas, something their religion prohibited. The already discontented sepoys, treated as second-class citizens in their ..read more
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