Ode to Pandemic
On the 31st December 2020, I was invited to take part in a Nationwide Youth Speech Competition for individuals aged between 13-19 years old. The event was organised over ZOOM by the Society of Nepalese Professionals (SoNP). There were around 28 individuals taking part and each contestant was provided 3 minutes to present a talk […]
80/20
I’ll set the scene: Country: Italy. Year: 1906. Country: Italy. Year: 1906. 58-year-old civil engineer, sociologist, economist, and political scientist Vilfredo Pareto is busy pottering around his garden. As far as we know, Pareto is simply observing and attending to various elements of greenery, when he notices something rather startling[…]
Telling it Your Way
Everyone loves a good story. Life, after all, is just a rarefied anthology of the tales we have told ourselves. It could be an objectively terrible morning but based on the prose and the manner with which we craft the details, reminiscing about that time might actually be a happy experience. Any old fool can […]
Why All the Time in the World Still Isn’t Enough
Parkinson’s law is an old adage which claims that ‘work expands to fill the time that is set aside for it’. Though this definition should not be taken in the literal sense – rest assured, there exists no mathematical proof to confirm the assumption that time adjusts to fit our needs (in fact, the opposite is true) – we must consider the real-life implications of this so-called ‘law’, to be concrete[…]
An Existential Blind Spot
Predestination. Is it a tangible construct? Do the roads we walk all converge to a single, inevitable point? For a mind that reasons on first principles, the entire notion likely seems absurd. How can fate exist when there is free will? For them, it is the scientific method that is apotheosized – proofs and axioms […]
Good Enough
Life is a rat race. It has always been a rat race. From 200 million spermatozoa ‘that could’, to the 7 billion that ‘got lucky’, we have always been competing. Although the opportunity to collaborate has often presented itself, the strive for teamwork is often superseded by the impatience of an individual simply unable to sit back and twiddle their thumbs whilst the rest of the group caught up.
The Information-Consumption Complex
I love food. I love it and will consume and consume till my stomach and waistband creak in quiet concession that mutually-assured destruction shall be achieved the instant I reach over for the last pizza slice […]
Debunking Human Sheep
Let’s talk about sheep. Not really interested in the fluffy kind, no matter how adorably docile they may appear. For now, it’s all about intrinsic sheep. The thing behind our need for uniformity – that tempestuous yen to fit in and appear ‘normal’. The sort that lives inside us and pulls its wool over our eyes. Alas, the electric pace of innovation egged on by the complications of our time has not created this […]