One of my uncles has had a great influence on the way I have thought and acted in life. My uncle has happened to be
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Category: Philosophy
A Few Thoughts About Conquest of India
I think such lies are being taught in Pakistan that Muslims took over India and the Hindus were really benign and peaceful. I think this
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Legitimized Corruption
One should not grow up to have ideological differences with power brokers. This kind of mindset has consequences on the human personality. For one thing,
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Neural Correlates of Belief
We have been working on some of Sam Harris’s Ph.D. thesis. The idea is to see how religious beliefs affect consciousness. Here is our research
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My Two Cents for the Separatists
A few days ago, I saw a comment on a friend’s wall on facebook. It had stuff about provincial autonomy, injustice, inequality and separatism in
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The Era of Blindness
The decade of 40s has a very special place in my consciousness. I personally think that it was in this decade that the humanity radically
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Internet of Guns
It is really not my type of a thing to be talking about guns, working with them or even wondering about them. I like to
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On Money and Motivation
A great debate is about to erupt nearby about whether monetary rewards can have a positive or a negative impact on academic research and scholarship.
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The Age of Modern Institutions
I am a diehard fan of George Friedman. I really love the way he writes. For me, he is a very profound writer who has
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Of Thought Experiments
I was surfing the web. Initially, it was just random, Brownian surfing. Then I thought about surfing with a purpose. I thought what should I
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