Sundaran as Prophet

Here are 11 easy steps that you can take to make your own science rap song. Just follow these steps and wait for recording labels to contact you for million-dollar deals. Wow, so simple!  STEP 1: End up with a fantastic amount of free time A global pandemic is advisable. But if it is too hard to get or the last one didn't exactly leave you wanting for more, then maybe find it some other way. The point is to have so much time that outrageous ideas like writing, recording and making instrumentals to a rap song and then putting it out there online for less than ten to possibly millions of viewers to watch, butcher and hate on should steam slowly from a "Hell NO!" to "no one's gonna watch it probably, so why not try it out?" to "Hell yeah, either this is the origin story of a rapping legend or just another guy who's put a mediocre song online. Just do it, man". The length of time for the idea to steam and boil is crucial. So watch out for the next ...

 Introduction Mind-Reading is a superpower that most of you might believe you do possess, but you (most likely) don't! It is when you make some judgement or conclusion from another person's conversation, gestures or body language. This leads you to make totally baseless assumptions about people. Oh, he thinks I'm ugly, she thinks I'm boring, they don't want me around. You start worrying about how you seem in their eyes and start doing stuff according to these assumptions, distancing yourself from them, worrying about it endlessly or people pleasing a lot; this is bad.  There is a way out. Simple actionable steps to break away from this habit. Find out how to stop tapping into this unwanted and dangerous non-superpower. Even Prophets fall: My case The neighbour aunty just saw me sitting on the balcony. She's going about her house doing her chores. I'm on the balcony on my laptop. Our eyes locked, and I felt a pang in my chest. From doing sample MCQ questions ...

Who is a hero?  How deeply does a hero affect our lives? Where do we put a stop to our praise of these heroes? Are they really as perfect as we imagine them to be? Would we hate them for their bad sides once we get to know them, or is it unconditional admiration despite the negatives? Note: I'm talking about people of celebrity status and influence. The kind you probably won't ever meet but know only through books or media. Some of you might have come across the poem “ If ” by Rudyard Kipling at some point.  The occasional YouTube search “Inspirational Videos” brings up this poem (among a lot of other poems and quotes) in black and white videos with some dude in a deep manly voice reading out the poem. And it is arguably one of the most uplifting poems ever, the  YouTube video , if administered at the right time, can possibly fill your willpower reserve and enable you to fight through an extra hour of study or work. I’ve read “If” a lot many times. And Rudyard Kipling see...

**SLIGHT SPOILER ALERT  for Marvel movie  Thor: Love and Thunder** Oh, I see what he’s doing. Trying to capitalise on the science audience from college by using all these science terms for analogies, and bringing up Marvel pop culture references to make it seem interesting… Yes, I can read minds. And you’re probably right, this is a flimsy attempt at original content meets SEO optimising. Prophet needs to focus on the business end too. The idea of using a local Lorentz frame to serve as some far-fetched analogy on life in general had come up to me back during the General Relativity course at college. And I had to revisit old General Relativity notes now since I had forgotten the whole idea, not that great a feeling. So I have to make this worth the effort. I’ll keep the science short. In a local region of curved spacetime, one can always choose coordinates where the metric looks approximately like the flat Minkowski metric. This is the local Lorentz frame. Ok ok that seems lik...

 I let my eyes fall on this story that appeared in a local newspaper some time ago: Gentleman guy comes to the library every day. He wishes the clerk “Good Morning” as he passes him by toward the shelves. Only, the clerk doesn’t return the salutation, instead, he ignores the guy every single time. So each day this scene is repeated, guy wishes the clerk a good morning warmly, but the clerk simply shuns him. A lady who occasionally visits the library starts noticing this and gets annoyed at the impolite clerk. She asks gentleman guy one day, “Why do you keep wishing this jerk good morning when he’s being such an asshole, ignoring you?” And guy replies, “How the other person responds to me doesn’t dictate how I respond to them.”   What a fantastic catchphrase! The quote that captures the spirit of the age! I found myself agreeing to give away an award or knighthood to this gallant knight of shining armour, this gentleman guy who never got fazed or lost his composure at the...

 Okay, serve the world is partly clickbait. The situation I command you to picture is one where you’re sitting with a full bladder and your mind is screaming Release! Release! In my defence ‘the world’ certainly shrinks to the vicinity around the nearest toilet at this point, and everything-- the deadline for the project application, how popular you are in your friend circle, the quintessential question of what exactly you want to do with your life, much less the war in the faraway country, all fade into vapour, and you attain a deep mindfulness of the present moment that Alan Watts or Baba Ramdev would’ve been proud of. You call out the situation to your friends, go take a piss in all haste, and there’s a deep peace and tranquillity to the world now. Happens occasionally huh? But what’s pure chaos is when the notification arrives at the most unfortunate moments: You’re in a movie theatre, farthest seat from the aisle. Or you’re on a bus full of people you don’t know and the next...