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A letter from 27 years old me to 25 years old me about.. marriage. I was in Gurgaon with a college senior who is also one of my best friend, Vikas Saini. We were talking about marriages. We tried to cover all the possible aspects for us to think about and tried to know why there is a problem. In the end, Vikas sir asked me how old I was. I answered 24 and a half, will be 25 in a couple of months. Then Vikas sir won the discussion by saying, “Joshi Ji, you are 25, and I’m 27 and believe me that a 27-year-old thinks a lot different than 25.” Later he told me that he used to think as I did at 25 but for some reason, it changes over the years. The very first question was why should one get married? There are many benefits to that if you come to think of them. First, there is peace of mind. Then it’s costly to live alone. Society functions in groups. Things are cheaper per head if there are more people. Akin to any distribution curve, there is a peak in a...

It was the title of my Business Management course presentation during 3rd year of college. It focused on how schools and society, together, are killing creativity. I just had a thought that the most common hobby among kids is to “Dance”. Why? Probably because parents don’t [want to] spend on other hobbies much. Kids can learn to dance on television, and they don’t have to go outside for that. Parents being overprotective is not better for kids, and the impact is not yet clearly visible to many people. Kids compelled to grow in a particular predetermined environment can’t blossom as much as they can in a free atmosphere. The positives and negatives of this are known to almost everyone thus it doesn’t need any explanation. The thing is what the impacts are. This constrained growth has not taught kids to accept failures. They become depress and get anxious when they fail. Kids expected to get full marks are doing well in that but they d...

It's not about Game of Thrones, apologies to disappoint you.   "'I don't know." That's a big deal to accept. When I was taking the coaching, many a time happened that students asked doubts just out of fun, not of curiosity. Teachers, on the other hand, most of the times find it hard to accept that they don't know the answer. Then they try to answer that thing as good as they can but might not be correct.  Well, it's not only that teacher but many teachers, or I should say most of the teachers, or most of the people or most of anything that answers something, be it cultures or religions or religious scriptures, find it hard to accept that they don't know. Though the sacred texts are said to contain everything we need, they don't actually. They don't have information about Newton's law. Albeit there is some vague knowledge of anything close to Newton's law. There is absolutely no information regarding the generation of electricity, co...

It’s not about Game of Thrones, apologies to disappoint you.   “I don’t know.” That’s a big deal to accept. When I was taking the coaching, many a time happened that students asked doubts just out of fun, not of curiosity. Teachers, on the other hand, most of the times find it hard to accept that they don’t know the answer. Then they try to answer that thing as good as they can but might not be correct.    Well, it’s not only that teacher but many teachers, or I should say most of the teachers, or most of the people or most of anything that answers something, be it cultures or religions or religious scriptures, find it hard to accept that they don’t know. Though the sacred texts are said to contain everything we need, they don’t actually. They don’t have information about Newton’s law. Albeit there is some vague knowledge of anything close to Newton’s law. There is absolutely no information regarding the genera...