Just a Thought

"Hi Heroes! This is Stan Lee coming at you. I want you to know. Marvel has always been and always will be, a reflection of the world right outside our window." Fictional stories are not just meant to be in the pages of a book or in the scenes of a movie. Sometimes these stories resonate deeply with our own lives. And this is obvious too. After all, who writes these stories? Another human being, right? Next time when you read a fictional story or see a movie, try to also read about its author. You will realize how that story is influenced by the author's own experiences. We actually get to share the perception of the author in any story. While the Harry Potter series is a magic world, its also so much about the life and desires of J K Rowling. The movie characters are also influenced by real-life situations. Even the superheroes. When Batman appeared in comic books for the first time, America was going through the great depression. Urbanization was growing fast along wi...

George Bush once said if there will be WW3 it will be against terrorism. Well, we should have one against these monsters if it is not for the difficulty in determining who actually the terrorist is. Terrorism is not a state. It doesn't have demarcated boundaries where you can drop the bomb and win the war. It is an ideology - a radical ideology which is unfortunately contagious. Terrorists can be everywhere - the train you board, the subway you cross, the restaurant you visit,  the club you enjoy. None of us knew of the man riding the truck in Nice was a terrorist until he mowed down 84 people.We didn't have a shred of an idea of the radicalization of that lunatic who went on a rampage in the Orlando nightclub. You don't know about the person sitting next to you in a public park is whether musing in the beauty of nature or bubbling up with radical thoughts and orchestrating a plan to destroy the nature. Every day there are hundreds of young minds who obliterate their beauti...

What is that thing that scares you the most? What is that thing that takes your breath away and leaves you dead and stiff? Oh! that depends on your age. For a newborn, it might be waking up in the morning and not finding her mother around. For a toddler, it would be when he is left all alone in a dark room. For a guy like me, getting up on an exam day with the least idea what am I am going to write on the paper. And as to old people, I have no idea what they scared of. Maybe a ghost,  by the way, ghost scares everyone. So basically our intimidation does vary with our age and the experiences we get exposed to but do you have any idea what is united states of America scared of?  Yes, United States of America. I might be at risk of appearing a jerk to you as to why the fuck America need to be afraid of anybody.  After all, they are the superpower. They have the economy, military, technology. They have the nuclear weapon. We know how Japan was retaliated and withered to as...

Islam is one of the major religion on the planet earth with 1.6 million followers across the globe and that means one in every four people. The word Islam is derived from the Arabic root  "Salema" which means peace, purity, and obedience but that vaguely resembles for the present state of Islam. A minority group Muslims who have succumbed to violence have hijacked Islam and the public imagination of its definition which makes the word more synonyms to fear, threat and intimidation. With the growing Islamophobia, the mainstream Muslims have been alienated from rest of the world. Accept it or not, Islam is going through one of the major crisis in reinstating its values and belief that preaches harmony, that believes in brotherhood, that the very foundation of its core tenets advocates peace. The very first thing every moderate Muslims around the world need to acknowledge and accept the fact that terrorism somehow or other has got to do with Islam. You just cannot get away by ...

On 20th July 2016 founder of Kickass Torrent was arrested in Poland leading to the shutdown of the website. Soon after internet deluged with outpouring support for the man and once again rekindled the eternal debate on online piracy. Increasing government crackdown on torrent sites has annoyed millions of people across the world who see their access to piracy as their democratic right. So let's know how it is indeed our right and how a war on online piracy is a war on democracy. If you look into the very core mechanism of these torrent sites, what they do is that they let you share something that you have with someone who doesn't have. It is that simple. Sharing is one of the greatest virtue of a human being. Sharing of knowledge, sharing of information, sharing of happiness, sadness - that is what has thrived us for years. Humans could have extinct long back in the ice age if they would have come collectively shared each others courage,  knowledge, and power to face such adv...

February 13, 2016 - Old post from the previous blog In the whole spectrum of evolution, human share a little slice of it. We are tiny dots in this universe. Yet our atrocities on earth can be well marked. These are like blot which can’t be cleaned. With every step, we left hatred, injustice, cruelty as the footprints. We turned to be horrific creature ever came who is insidiously burning the earth down for its undaunting greed. So is every human out there can be held responsible for the chaos. Is every single person is botching? Well as I contemplate I find it’s not all of us who want such adversity. It’s not all of us who are overshadowed by such greed. These are few fringe elements who wish to get hold of everything. Who wants to put everything deep in their pockets. And these fringe elements are bureaucrats, hypocrites, religious fundamentalist, etc. who are connivingly using us in their rat race leaving us perished. Civilians believe in Humanity There are more than 7 billion pe...

The light of hope faints when the candle is forfeited for lightening the darkness. When the wind is parried from blowing its charm and when a bird is caged for chirping its harmony. The moment a creature is restrained from forming its true form, it loses the very sole purpose of its livelihood. Aaron Swartz was certainly a kind of creature, a human being who wanted to free us from the deadly jaws of a hoggish system. An American computer programmer, entrepreneur, writer, political organizer and Internet hacktivist, who used his life to make the world a better place but it seemed like the world wasn’t that better to accept the change. Equal access to Knowledge for every Person The foundation of freedom is laid by the bricks of knowledge and the knowledge is “Freedom is not given to us, it’s our right.” Aaron Swartz wanted to aware people about their rights. He wanted to make this world equal and balanced, may not be economically but knowledgeably,  where every person has equal acc...

Why some people leave their well-paved way of future and go into something unknown, where they risk their life, tolerate pain and live sleepless nights. What is that thing that compels such persons to get out of their comfort zone? One of those few people was Ernesto Che Guevara, the Marxist icon of Cuban Revolution. Che's life was all set before his instinct was radicalized for a noble cause. Here are 5 reasons which changed Che forever and made him a revolutionary. He was searching for a meaning of Life Che was born in a middle-class family where he was brought up in the same fashion as every normal kid. He completed his schooling and went to college and took a medical degree. Along the smooth side of his life, there was a lot going inside him. He was restless and looking for the purpose in life. He was a voracious reader and loved reading books of serious authors like Karl Marx, William Faulkner, André Gide, Emilio Salgari and Jules Verne. He was even passionate about poe...