Monthly Archives: February 2012

Contemporary Biology very diplomatically avoids the question: Where does Life come from? Its main business is now to do cloning etc which are nothing but advanced carpentry. That’s all. These ‘scientists’ are no better than carpenters who are satisfied with … Continue reading →

A colleague of mine remarked that he has a co-worker who owns a flat in Calcutta which costs around INR 65 Lac and he openly admits that he has no choice but to slog and pay the EMI. In other … Continue reading →

‘Every home-loan-lender cannot just refrain using the term ‘dream home’. We know why having a home in a city is a dream now – no longer in the realm of possibility. I was born in small town and home was … Continue reading →

A pure impersonalist philosopher reasons this way: That who worship and serve a personal god with a form does it from a need. He cannot conceive of an immanent god because of his experience with name and form. He cannot … Continue reading →

In late sixties, an old Bengali gentleman born near Harrison Road, Calcutta went to Massachusetes Institute of Technology and delivered a challenge. The challenge is still alive after fifty years. What is the challenge? He asked, point blank: In your … Continue reading →

The discovery of birth-control pill has been explained by an old man of Bengal to me in a conversation and one can trace all discoveries or invention by following the logic. I have not heard anything like this from anyone … Continue reading →

When I was young, say thirty years back from now, we used to hear lots of noises coming from top end biologists that they are just around the corner creating life from matter. They are just going to unveil the … Continue reading →

Vedic Literature, especially the Upanishads and the Bhagawad-Gita starts with the explicit and implicit statement of two states of ‘existence’: sat and a-sat.  Crudely speaking, a-sat means our material body and everything related to the body. Mind and ego are … Continue reading →