Listening to good music right now.....Makes me wonder...Who first made music? People must have developed theories about that, haven't they? Apologies, if the question is stupid, I haven't googled it yet ;).
Sometime back, I read the string theory and heard some of the string theorists on TV. That reminds me of the endless times I have read, as part of my curriculum alone, the big-bang theory. So many times, God, so many! ...that it led me into believing that that's how it all started. Why do they teach it like that at school? Is it a thing of my school or my teachers only ?(BTW, have been to three schools and know scores of similarly-illusion ed-students from other schools.) Or, is it drilled into the heads of pupils that way only in India? The big-bang is just a theory. So is the Darwin's evolution theory and several other. Yeah, you would say, of course we all know that!
But that's not the point. Now you know, I know and everyone knows. Yet when I was first introduced to big-bang as a li'l girl, I imagined everything as if it was really happening then, in front of my eyes. I believed in it. Held it as true for a long long time. It's very close to saying, I grew up with the big-bang assumption neatly settled in the base of my mind. Doesn't harm, you'd say. I don't agree.
I think little kids should be introduced to these theories in a certain way...cautiously...something like this, "We don't know why we have innumerable stars, planets or other celestial/ heavenly bodies (whoever coined that term, for God's sake!)in the universe. Also - dear children - in general, nobody is so sure about where all that stuff came from or how it came into being. The fact is that we can only make calculated guesses or estimates about it. Long back a smart guy called Georges Lemaitre proposed one such possibility. Hence, we have a theory which is known as the big-bang theory. Now before I explain what that is, let me introduce you to other such theories which are not as popular......(Feed in all the theories that you want now)...Well, now which one do you think sounds more believable to you? Can you imagine your own little theory for how the universe was born?...."
No?
Monday, July 14, 2008
God Only Knows (No... seriously!)
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How do you do it? Seriously, how do you write posts like this? Incredible. This one had me banging my hand on my desk in disbelief.
rajk..u are free not to read if you do not like it. I think it is mindless entertainment. Its just like Om shanti Om...mindless fun..
Oh dear! Anonymous- you ought to at least be sure of your assumptions before commenting in that (mildly) patronising vein!
My comment wasn't a pompous put-down of something mindless, but rather an incredulous appreciation of something I liked instantly due to a lot of reasons, which I shan't go into now.
"How do you do it?" is hardly rebuke, it's more wonder. I'm surprised this wasn't evident!
As for comparing to "Om Shanti Om", I haven't seen the movie, but I can't think of too many bigger insults to anything that aspires to art/literature!
Hi ,
I was reading ur blog posts and found some of them to be wow.. u write well.. Why don't you popularize it more.. ur posts on ur blog ‘Look at it like this!’ took my particular attention as some of them are interesting topics of mine too;
BTW I help out some ex-IIMA guys who with another batch mate run www.rambhai.com where you can post links to your most loved blog-posts. Rambhai was the chaiwala at IIMA and it is a site where users can themselves share links to blog posts etc and other can find and vote on them. The best make it to the homepage!
This way you can reach out to rambhai readers some of whom could become your ardent fans.. who knows.. :)
Cheers,
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