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Teacher's Day.

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"When we think we know, we cease to learn." this idiom is said by a 16 times Nobel Prize nominee for literature, and 11 times Nobel Prize nominee for peace, along with being awarded Bharat Ratna, and a knighthood, holding the title of ex-president, and the first Vice-President of India, Dr. Radhakrishnan Sarvepalli. The westerners awarded Dr. Sarvepalli, because he criticized their philosophy, and did so with so much artistry and proficiency that he was one of the first person viewed from the East, as an authority on the Western philosophy. Though he studied in an evangelical Convent, he was a Hindu to his core. And it was his core beilefs that made him question and subsequently answer the profound questions raised by the Hindu theology, undertaken by him. He could easily breakdown any form of a critique on Hindu, which was a spectacle in his time. He reverted the western thinking, that Hinduism was superstitious and narcissistic, by showing them that their own philosoph...

Under The Shade of The Pen.

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The emptiness that we feel in our lives, the ebb and flow of temporary satisfaction that we get from our routine, and the conformationally biased understanding of reality all propose the same thing that we do not know anything for real. The constant mugging up of the facts, is not even information in its definitive sense. That is just data, unprocessed, meaningless, raw data. The human brain is a far better judge of this concept. We tend to realize this fact, quite early, during our student years, that we don't even know the reason why we are studying the things that, we are studying. We just fall in like sheep, while consciously being painfully aware of our 'sheepness', and still follow a specific protocol of actions, this flawed society has imposed upon us. We are far better than this, and we have had proofs of it. People letting go of conventional education turning out to be absolute masterpieces of their time. They made this world a better place than when they f...