Lose Fat, Not Weight
How to lose fat (and weight) while not losing your muscles. The second post in this series.
Work and Life
life
Malayalam, Work and Life, Parenting
Another Pen Story of Tough Love
Another pen, another story about the tightrope act called parenting.
Work and Life, Science, Topical
Are You an Introvert?
Take a quiz to see if you are an introvert or an extrovert – a techie or a manager.
Work and Life, Books, Corporate Life
Quiet Me
On why I like to be quiet and keep listening to a world that can’t stop talking. It is prelude to an upcoming review of the book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain.
Topical, Philosophy, Physics
What is Unreal Blog?
This post is an expanded version of a Web interview regarding my blog. It attempts to answer the question why I blog. And why one should take philosophy seriously. Seriously!
How to be a Good Parent
Practical advice to my younger readers.
Life and Death, Philosophy, Topical
Death — Last Words
The sixth and last post on the philosophy of death looks at the paradox or the absurdity of living at all, given that there is a death looming, and tries to find a sliver lining.
Topical, Life and Death, Philosophy
Does the World Go on?
The fifth post on the philosophy of death looks at another notion of continuity. Even for those who believe in no soul or god of any kind, the physical world is real and continuous. No sane person would think the world comes to an end with his death. Then again, nobody has accused me of sanity.
Primal Soul
What is soul, and why do we need one? Philosophy of death is surely incomplete without a discussion of this matter. Here is the fourth post in this series.
Life and Death, Philosophy, Topical
From Here to Eternity
The severity of a pain is not merely its intensity, but its duration as well. Given that death puts a definitive end to our worldly durations, how does it affect our notion of punishment commensurate with crime? Here is the third post on the philosophy of death.
Topical, Life and Death, Philosophy
Why Should I Be Good?
This second post on my series on the philosophy of death deals with the connection between morality and death.