Tag Archives: worldview

Inherent Bias

Posted on December 2, 2014 by 9minnon

Is bias towards the “other” inherent in a community, or is it something which is built from the outside in? This is something we were discussing this Sunday. While our Sunday random jaunt did take us to some places across … Continue reading →

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Religion & Science

Posted on November 4, 2014 by 9minnon

Not many would have missed this news about Pope Francis declaring evolution and the Big Bang to be true. We have been discussing this for some time now, before we came around to posting our thoughts here. To begin with, … Continue reading →

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Sunday Walkabout

Posted on November 2, 2014 by 9minnon

On our habit of random walking about on Sunday, and we find that sometimes we are taken to parts of the city which hold treasures for the traveller. Some such treasures were found on one such Sunday. A short bus … Continue reading →

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Getting Around

Posted on October 28, 2014 by 9minnon

Lao Tzu said: A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. With this description, we could be somewhat of good travellers, albeit weekend ones. You would have read in this post about our wanderings around … Continue reading →

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Deciphering Nuclear

Posted on October 11, 2014 by 9minnon

Over the last few days, as shelling between India and Pakistan has intensified and reduced over time, there are a number of statements coming about the Pakistani nuclear option. This news report is an example. Over the years, when there … Continue reading →

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Consciousness …

Posted on July 21, 2014 by 9minnon

Following from the earlier post, heres a nice video, with Professor Russell Stannard, discussing the idea of consciousness, and the limits of scientific knowledge. There are some important questions here. While the theory of evolution describes the evolutionary requirement of … Continue reading →

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Of Consciousness

Posted on July 19, 2014 by 9minnon

The other day, these guys were discussing the topic of consciousness. Out of the jumble of sounds (that’s usually what their discussion sounds like … unintelligible sounds), emerged a discussion about the nature of consciousness and the relationship between consciousness … Continue reading →

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The Narrative Continued

Posted on July 6, 2014 by 9minnon

Continuing from the earlier post about the Pakistani narrative about Hindu-Muslim relations in the sub-continent, and the idea that Pakistan is the real inheritor of the legacy of the Mughals, where we had asked who you think we are referring … Continue reading →

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The Name Common

Posted on June 25, 2014 by 9minnon

Sometimes, when two nations are not too friendly towards each other, they have two options … One is to focus on the differences between the viewpoints of these nations, and the other is to focus on the common ground. Which … Continue reading →

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Strangers In A Strange City

Posted on May 24, 2014 by 9minnon

Laurel and Hardy were talking about travel the other day. To cut a long story short (and if you would really like to suffer the discussion, you would get to read about it some other day), this was about some … Continue reading →

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