Enjoying food during Ramadan in Hyderabad

 Hyderabad is a place to be if you want to enjoy good non vegeterian food with generous servings. During Ramadan, you can get Haleem and many varieites of delicacies. We went to visit Charminar area and below is the scenery from eatery of Sonu Kebabs

Mental health and well being

My thoughts on recent tragic news of an IIT, IIM graduate employee suicide. 

 

Book : A Wild Sheep Chase

 How will you react if someone says that a "Sheep" has entered me. Well for followers of mysticism and believers of supernatural it is totally plausible. But in the society of scientific minded people it will be hard to digest.

Author Haruki Murakami doesn't disappoint with his dual mode of writing. It is both commonplace and bizarre at the same time. The main character of this story is forced by powers of much importance to find a particular sheep in a months time or else his life will be destroyed. All this because he has a picture of a flock of sheep which contains this peculiar sheep.

A story of absurd notion. Where will someone find a sheep in any city or place based on a picture. However it is all possible in Murakami world.

My other writings on book  are here

Flying man and artist robots

 These days we are living in a strange and exciting times. Past one and half years have been buzzed up by the capabilities of AI where machines can answer any question you ask, write a story or poem for you. They can paint you a picture and even create a movie. It truly looks like Genie is out of the bottle. Will it make us superhuman or will it subjugate us?

Now it begs the question, what is real or what is unreal? Is a content generated by machine authentic for human taste? If not, then why not? Why is a story by another human imagination is better than machine imagination (or hallucination). With growing automation, it was predicted that humans will do more of humane things (aka search of knowledge and creativity). But even that is taken away from them, then what next?

It is not as if humans are not doing anything. Straight out of movies, men are flying around in jet packs. Can this become the main mode of commute in a condensed city of future world.

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 फरवरी का महीना और वो चांदनी रात 

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पेड़ों से लिपटी हुई मदहोश हवायेँ और

तुम से होना पहली मुलाकात 

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फक्कड़ से घूम रहे थे हम, कुछ सकुचाती हुई आई तुम 

दिल में उठे जज़्बात 

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शायद तुमने देखा भी न हो,  फिर मिलो अगर तो पहचानो भी न सही 

लेकिन मुझे रहेगी ताउम्र याद 

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