PHILOKALIST

  New normal                 This is the era of new normal. An old place where new things are being normalized. Face masks, vaccination, quarantine, sanitization....all these words have become a daily usage around the globe. The schools that were strict about attendance went to the extent were the children were given free attendance and free promotion to next class. The government offices duties were shifted to online and all the employees who never cared to look at the monitor were forced to work on the computer for straight 10 hours. The teachers had a tough time learning how to do classroom meetings on zoom and google meets. Covid was the ideal time for role reversal at all houses The children and grandchildren in all houses had turned to teachers for the elder at home. All the parents and elders at home had turned to students during this time. This is an era which brought the entire globe to the front of a monitor. Through a single screen, we attended the marriages, the office me

  Art of fitness This 21st century is known for many reasons and we can add one more to it. The era of fitness. There is a mad obsession for fitness all around us. The world population spent at least half of their time and money in gyms or dance classes. Most of the people spend a handsome money on their fitness routines such as equipments, food and gym fees. People who think  gym is not their cup of coffee goes for dance or yoga classes or they end up be self trained and self mentored. These days people are aware of calories, different types of diets BMI, personal workout hours. There is an urge in everyone to stay fit and in shape. Even the social media has become a platform to show off those hard-earned abs, jaw -dropping weight loss, that envious body shape, which is good and motivating to an extent. Most of the phone galleries are packed with work out and gym photos, where people are celebrating their journey of staying fit and found proud of themselves by tagging them as fitness

An encounter with the waves " Dance with the waves, Move with the sea, Let the rhythm of  the water set your soul free"                                                                - Christy Ann Martine A beach is always a recreational site  in every country. It is place that is responsible for bringing people together. A walk through the beach  is always refreshing. For small kids, their main fantasy is to get wet in the sea and to be amazed at the huge waves heading onto the seashore. As some one wise said, counting stars and waves will let you live long. The teenagers come to beach to hangout with friends or maybe the beach lucky enough to be the place to witness the date of new couples . The adults come to beach to refresh their mind and soul, taking a necessary leave from their busy schedule. The retired people come to beach to simply trying adding some spice to their mundane old age with the sound of waves and color of sea. A walk through the beach is often a philosop

  A compliment to a stranger A walk through a flea market that happened in my city is responsible for my encounter with this unusual board. First I thought this idea to be funny, but then as I took a card to write, I was immersed into thoughts. The sudden thought of what to write was more tormenting than remembering my machine learning algorithms. In this era, where everyone find pleasure in finding others fault, complementing has become a tough task. When it is to compliment a stranger, then the task gets even tougher. So, I took a paper and stood there wondering what compliment should I write. According to me, to compliment a stranger, we need to be really open minded. Seeing my perplexed mind, my friend told me, "Hey, just write something. It is very inexpensive to give a compliment. We have to hurry up. Still we have many more stalls to visit." But I wasn't ready to let it go. I was thinking hard what to write. Suddenly a quote by Robert Orben which says," Someti

Love of food Imagine that you went for an exhibition held in your city or town and you entered its food court. Wouldn't it be a bit strange and surprising for you to see more people flocking in front of the food counters than those going for the exhibition stalls where the vendors keep shouting at the top of their voice about the high quality of the material they have displayed. In a country like India, where a very strong saree craze is injected into the female population irrespective of their age category, the expectation of them flocking to the saree stalls is vey usual. But to my surprise and maybe to many of you who is reading this, I saw that people preferred to try out some variety of cuisines rather than trying out those silk sarees or hand made goods. There I stood at the entrance of the food exhibition realizing what the great poet George Bernard Shaw once said, "There is no sincere love than the love of food". Humans always had a strong passion for food. Most o

  Impact of human extinction𝌄👫🌍 How will it be a world without humans? I always imagined this scenario in my mind. Though humans are considered are considered to be the most sharp and clever creatures on this planet, humans have always been a boon to nature. Human interventions have always been catastrophic to the nature. Right from the evolution of humans, the actions of humans had a bigger impact on nature than any other living being. Human themselves declared to be the most powerful on this planet, neglecting and ignoring the  power of the nature to reverberate. Humans have always paid for their actions. The way the nature counter back is more than the human could ever calculate or imagine. It has happened several times in various forms of natural calamities, where lived of  millions of living beings was taken away.  But in recent  years, studies says that human extinction is an inevitable event in the cycle of life on earth. According to the eminent Australian virologist Frank F