[This article is based on my reading of How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton] There is a nagging guilt conscience that comes with the thought that one should have at least read a book from an…
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Love Life Cycle: Part 2
[This article is based on my reading of Essays in Love by Alain de Botton and is a sequel to Love Life Cycle: Part 1. This article compared to its predecessor has been much more difficult to write hence the…
Maradona and our Love for the Tormented Genius
Weeks after his death I was still trying to figure out why Diego Maradona is arguably the best footballer EVER. Months have passed since the first draft of this post but I think I’ve drawn closer to somewhat of a…
Reading and Writing is Opinion Football
Football is by far the most widely watched sport in the world except for a not so silent minority who prefer to call it soccer. Two teams of 11 contesting for supremacy while either a small crowd or the rest…
Love Life Cycle: Part 1
[This article is based on my reading of Essays in Love by Alain de Botton] There are fewer more cliched topics than love. Despite being deeply rooted in popular culture, it still remains rather amorphous. Finding the distilled true meaning…
Science Has Lots of Answers But Not All, Yet.
A fundamental part of the human condition has always been to make sense of the world around us. From the mundane to the existential, everything was once mystical, superstitious and the instruments of a handful of gods and spiritual entities;…
Given Infinity, Why Be Human?
No other sci-fi has captured my heart and imagination like The Humans by Matt Haig. It is a novel about an alien assassin sent to earth for the sole mission of destroying evidence that the Reimann hypothesis, an elusive mathematical…