Charlie Brooker of BBC takes a look at the negative effects of aspirational TV.

In the name of Development

It’s  really sad to see the land covered with concrete to look good and clean. This is what is happing at Vijaya bank layout, Bangalore.

Few weeks back, layout and park maintained by Vijaya bank started cleaning the park and it’s around area. Not sure who is getting this done. Whole park is redone with [...]

“We must bring back into society a deeper sense of the purpose of living. The unhappiness in so many lives ought to tell us that success alone is not enough. Material success has brought us to a strange spiritual and moral bankruptcy.” Ben Okri October 2008

going GREEN

The world used to be simple

The world used to be simple. You merely noticed in passing that you got wet by brushing against the drops of dew while meandering through the meadow. But from the time people undertook to explain this one drop of dew scientifically, they trapped themselves in the endless hell of the intellect.

Water molecules are made up [...]

Why do you have to develop

“Why do you have to develop? If economic growth rises from 5% to 10%, is happiness going to double? What’s wrong with a growth rate of 0%? Isn’t this a rather stable kind of economics? Could there be anything better than living simply and taking it easy?

People find something out; learn how it works, [...]