A tired athlete comes back to his locker after a long day of practice.
He sits in his room, sipping some water. It had been a tiring day. He knows that it was to be the last of it’s kind. There had been changes at the top. The management which used to run the race earlier [...]

S —> S;

S —> S(S);

S(X) —> S(Powerset(X));

S(X) —> S;

Key to interpreting the symbols:

Empty Set, ∅ as “Nothing-else”.
{X} as “The Description of X”.
{X,Y,…} as “The Description of X and Y and …”
S(X) as “The Act of Describing X”
S as “The Describer”
—> as “which describes”

This is It.

At times, I end up having interesting conversations with the salesmen who try to sell credit card and other services over the phone.I have been too lazy to add my number into the Do-not-disturb registry. I should do it soon.
Anyway, the credit card ones are usually easy to handle. I just tell them I have [...]

Kanchan Gupta interviewed Indian diplomat Pavan K Varma whose latest book “Becoming Indian: The Unfinished Revolution of Culture and Identity” is now on the stands. In the interview, the author makes some excellent points regarding the cultural audit, rather the absence of it after the union jack came down. Following is an excerpt from that [...]

Hello everyone,
On April 7th this year, this blog completed three years of it’s existence. It started off to serve the purpose of a Petri-dish into which I could pour my thoughts, inspect them over time and probably become wiser. No, I hadn’t read Harry Potter back then so I didn’t know about the Pensieve. But [...]