Live and let die

http://scroll.in/article/804186/live-and-let-die-did-michel-foucault-predict-europes-refugee-crisis

India is a State-Nation, Not a Nation-State: Yogendra Yadav

The Article that was written three years back by the renowned Political Scientist Yogendra Yadav when BJP came to power, time that we remind ourselves of this again..

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/india/india-is-a-state-nation-not-a-nation-state-yogendra-yadav-634632.html

Perfection

Who said perfection is bad.. Who said perfection is to impress others? Who said excellence is better than perfection? Here is perfection, the pursuit of perfection doesn't come by being imperfect but by uncompromise, It doesn't come by being mediocre but due to one's intense love for simplicity and beauty, It's not about impressing others but being true to yourself, it's not about what best you can do, but about being the best in what you do..

A Beautiful Phrase

"We are merely explorers of infinity in the pursuit to absolute perfection" the phrase from the movie "The man who knew infinity"..

Nationality

I have never tried a blog on political affairs but the recent events in India and more so the misunderstanding of the general public forced me to write this.. The idea is not to prove my point but to educate the people of my country..

Nationality is a virtual reality like Money, Religion, Corporation etc unlike the Objective realities like Plants, Animals, Humans, Water, Air, Mountains etc.. It is the belief in these Virtual reality that made the growth of Humans through flexible cooperation in large nos.. No Animals will believe in virtual reality like money or Nationality and a chimpanzee will not give you Bananas for money writes Yuval Noah Harari in his book Sapiens - A brief History of Human kind..

And slowly with the evolution of humans the virtual reality has taken over the objective reality, money has become more important than the fellow species, Nationality has become more important than the welfare of the entire society, corporation have become more important than the very people it employs..

Its important that we often remind ourselves of these virtual realities else we will destroy the entire objective realities like fellow species, Air, water, mountains and will also destroy each other.. To put it again, Nationality is one such Virtual reality and welfare of the entire society is more important than the nationhood.

Nationality is the virtual reality which holds the people in the entire nation to live together and it will exist as long as majority of the people of nation has a trust in that.. Oppressing dissenting voices in large No's will damage the trust and the  very unity of the nation. Nationality is invoked by the totalitarian regimes to garner support to their atrocities and more its used for crushing the General Public, minority & Marginalised the more will be the dissent and the loss of trust on the very concept of the nation.. Time we understand, acknowledge the dissenting voices and hold the solidarity of this nation..

What to Read..

One's progress is limited by his thoughts & action and Reading kindle the thoughts of lot of us which make it so important.. The biggest problem is to understand "what to read", when we went to school, It was Hindu Newspaper and then the Hindu Editorial and then in college it was Business Today, Business week etc and then when we work, we want to read every book but don't have enough time.. It so important to know what to read, what not to read and how to read when we have limited amount of time.. Some of my thoughts..    

Dr. Marshall Goldsmith - Bringing your negative behavior to neutral is no easy job, he makes it simple..

His Book on "What got you here wont get you there"

His Talk on Google

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WBeGAAYWg8

Peter Trucker- Everything written by him if you are into Management, His biography is a good one, not about his life but about his writings.. 

TED Talks - Each video of maximum 20 mins is a book written by the intellects of this world.. We can just watch this for hours together like TV programs.. TED took the writings of so many intellects to the world and these three are beauty.. 

Susan Cairn on "Power of Introverts"

Brene Brown on  "Vulnerability"

Larry Smith on "Why will fail to have a great career"

Dale Carnegie on How to win friends and Influence people - Basics of Human Behavior doesn't change in 80 years and this teaches the basics on dot..

Biographies -  Life of great leaders teaches us more than any other books, choose any.. Some i liked are Einstein, Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln..

Twitter - This is good medium to Read & Learn things, add all the Authors, Personalities, e magazines, Organisations, Areas of Interest as followers and get update everyday.. Check personalities what they follow..

Magazines/Apps - Harvard Business Review Magazine & Blogs, Mckinsey Insights App, Scoll.in (News App), Live Mint (Business News App)

E Readers - Have passion for reading and don't have enough time to Read, put your e reader on Read aloud mode and just Drive/Relax.. Good one is Flipkart e Books and google Play Books of which the later is cost effective. Amazon Kindle in Android doesn't have voice reader option..

The biggest Invention

Fire, Wheels, Electricity.. No..

The biggest one is the Written Language.. Imagine a world where there is only speech and there is no form of written communication like you see in animal world.. The learning of an individual is confined to the individuals he/she meet and that's it.. Today what humans experience is collective learning, the learning is not just shared across millions but passed on to generations where one start from the point where another has concluded without which we all would have been just animals..

So if human race transformed because of writings of a learned, what are we doing about it, Is it not gross injustice to the human race if we don't take this collective learning to the next level.. So let’s Read, Think, Do and Write before we leave this world..

I may be the last person to find this out but happy to be one among them!!..