In the previous two posts, I introduced Carlo Rovelli’s Helgoland and the concept of Quantum Entanglement or Quantum Coherence. This post is about the relational interpretation of quantum mechanics and its relationship with Nagarjuna. I first heard about Nagarjuna in an Operations Strategy lecture taken by Prof. Saral Mukherjee at IIM Ahmedabad in 2021….
In my last post on Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli, I said that the Quantum entanglement and relational interpretation of the quantum mechanics need their own posts. This is the post on Quantum entanglement. However, this is not only about entanglement, but also about coherence. I first heard about quantum entanglement in a talk by…
It’s not very often that I read a book that blows my mind. Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli is one such. Carlo Rovelli is an Italian Theoretical Physicist and he has written several popular science books. Helgoland is my first one and I believe that now there will be several more. The book is in…
After reading Yuganta: The end of an epoch, there were two things that kept bothering me. The first one was Karve’s view of Bhishma, specifically around the incident during the Rajasuya Yagna by Yudhishthir. Bhishma asked for Krishna to be the first one to be respected and in both Shishupala and Karve’s view that…
“You think you know Mahabharata, you should read Yuganta by Irawati Karve”. This was one of the ways the book was recommended to me. I do not claim to know all of Mahabharata, but having read the epic in multiple forms, I thought I knew it somewhat. So I read Yuganta: The end of…
I have been thinking about Snow Crash, a science fiction novel, by Neal Stephenson for a few days now. The thoughts were triggered after reading The McDonaldization of Society article by George Ritzer as part of a coursework for Elephants and Cheetahs by Prof Saral Mukherjee in IIM Ahmedabad. In the article, author talks…
I am made of light. I am shaped as a songbird and I am sitting on the top of a tree. There is a nest of songbirds on the branches of the tree below me. In that nest, an egg trembled, then cracked a little and then split. He came out and opened his…
While going through Sushant’s body of work, in his remembrance, I watched PK again recently. This post assumes that you have watched PK or at least know about the story. All the discussions I had with friends and family members about the movie and what it represented when it was released came flooding through…
Once upon a time, there lived an angry lion in the Garhwal region of North India. No one knew why the lion was angry. Anyone who crossed his path was killed. It seemed as if terrible death herself had taken a form and descended upon the earth. His terror was spread across all the…
I was at the picturesque beach of Puri, looking out to the ocean. It was late afternoon and the beach was relatively empty of people. A couple of families were around and they were taking refuge from the afternoon sun by playing with the ocean waves coming in. I was sitting under the shade…