Opinions

When you travel across India, the way people build sentences changes almost as often as the landscape. You’ll hear words land in an order that sounds “backward” to English speakers. Yet, for millions, it feels perfectly natural. India’s languages split into families. The two biggest? Indo-Aryan (name assigned by “linguists”) in the north (think Hindi, Bengali, Marathi), and Dravidian in the south (think Tamil, Telugu, Kannada). Both use Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) as their standard order....

Just finished streaming Episode 395 of the Making Sense podcast. What an apt remark Sam makes on the current situation. We’re living through a peculiar moment in human history where the democratization of information—which should, in theory, make us smarter—has paradoxically made us more confused, or shall I say “Amusing ourselves to death” as Neil Postman bluntly put it across over 3 decades ago. For those not finding it in them to read the book, here is a video https://youtu....

I just finished reading Arnold Schwarzenegger’s autobiography,Total Recall, and I’ve got mixed feelings. The book does a good job of shattering the myth that Arnold is all brawn and no brains. From the book, I got the impression that he is actually a calculating, ambitious, and hardworking individual who achieved his goals through sheer determination. He’s possibly the embodiment of the American dream, and his rags-to-riches story is undeniably inspiring....