Thought Leadership

He was an unknown Writer  He was not known outside his friends circle. He was a writer but his works no one knew. He wrote dramas that failed miserably to glow  He decided to migrate to the oriental literature & try his fate again. The persian poet Jami became his subject of research. From this love affair came out the English translations of Jami’s Salman & Absal to the world  This too further sealed his fate towards the oblivion unknown.  He never gave up Hope  But he never gave up hope. He decided to translate the Persian Quatrains of Omar Khayyam & spread the fragrance of poetic wisdom to the world  Thus came out one of the most famous translations of the Persian poetry ever. This work too did not generate the initial fame  But slowly it became the talk of English literary world Yes, I am talking about Edward FitzGerald and his magnum opus translation “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”  The rare Thought Leadership  There are rare occasions in the literary world where the wr

The Moon & the Water  Some news does catch your eyes. Just yesterday it was announced by the scientific community that they have discovered water molecules on the moon  Though it is a great piece of discovery but not very surprising after all. This fact was waiting to be discovered for we have been trying to find traces of water on the moon for decades. It was just a matter of when  Light is Civilization  Water is actually the synonym of life for humanity. Where there is water there is life & there evolves civilization.  But to me the most surprising aspect of the discovery was something else. It was the particular region on the moon on which the water traces were discovered that fascinated me The water traces were discovered on the sunlit portion of the moon. This has a huge metaphorical significance if we can think beyond the obvious  Thought Leadership is showing Light in Darkness  Anything that is lit has life just like the sunlit portion of the moon. So is our mind tha

The 4.5 Billion Year Old Stranger  The journey of 200 million miles. The journey to meet a stranger whose age is 4.5 billion years old. The same age as our Earth Imagine waiting for 3 years for the messenger to come & deliver the message from the stranger. Envisage the efforts that will go in to decipher the encrypted message & understand the mind of the old stranger  And the message is nothing but 60 grams of dust, dirt & few pebbles  Then you realise the fact that the messenger after delivering the message will go into the oblivion never to be seen again  Apparently it would look simply outrageous to undertake such a long long journey for just dirts, dusts & pebbles  Would you plan for such an arduous journey ever ? NASA Osirex-Rex & Bennu  Yes. I am talking about the expedition of NASA’s Osiris-Rex to asteroid Bennu to find the truth about our universe. The truth that would also reveal us about our own human origins  Some journeys are undertaken simply fo

If I tell you about the Machines If we create something we expect it to do work better than us. If not then why would be create such things in the first place itself  The purpose to machines was to do some specialised jobs better than the humans  Specialisation is what Machines are expected to do. From the first moment itself the machines knows nothing about anything except its specialised roles  Machines are routine, repetitive, confined & monotonous. They are insipid, soulless, unoriginal & seems lifeless  It is Colourless World  Howsoever beautiful & fantastic the machines look initially but if we keep on observing it regularly it loses all its charms. it has nothing to offer except what it has been specialised to do so When anything becomes precisely predictive it behaves like the machines & is colourless in interactions  Do not let your children become machines  This is precisely what specialisation in education in young children can do. It has potential to ma

Advices are  game changers   Sometimes some advice can be a game changer. It can establish as well as ruin the entire future prospects of the heeder more so particularly in the professional field  Generally such important advice is sought from experienced & professional people who have spent years in that profession. We do not seek such seasoned advice from a teenager more so if he has no knowledge of that field  Nizami took the Risk  But this is exactly what Nizami Ganjavi the 12th century AD Persian poet did when he was offered a professional literary task. Nizami was an accomplished literary figure  He was offered the project to write the famous Arabic love story of Laila-Majnu for the Persian readers. His advisors bluntly told him that a sad love story of a commoner would not attract readers. Further this would besmirch his philosophical poet image  Nizami was confused. He sought the final advice from his wife & his teenage son. They both insisted that it would bring co

The biggest Thought Leadership Honour  The Nobel Prize (NP) is the biggest recognition of Thought Leadership in that field.  The NP for Physics 2020 has been awarded to 3 people of whom Roger Penrose is the main recipient. The NP Committee states that Penrose has been awarded for the “discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity” What does it mean? This statement actually means that “Leadership of Ideas” are like the chains. The longer the chain the wider it has the reach It hints at the proposition that “Nothing is Original Per se”. Everything is built one upon the other structures of Ideas Penrose discovery affirms Einstein’s Theory of Relativity & links it to many other theories of Astro-Physics Penrose discovery is not in isolation but in conjugation to already existing Ideas Thoughts are built upon connected thoughts. Ideas are conceived upon existing ideas. Discoveries are made upon discovered realities Civilizations progress

Your Some Truths will get demolished someday  Suppose truths which we have been born believing into suddenly get questioned. How do we react ? Our responses to our own credible doubts are our first test of impartiality It is a commonly held belief that the Greeks taught the world the finer elements of Mathematics including Trigonometry. Hipparchus (100 B.C) is regarded as father of Trigonometry Plimpton 322 But the Babylonian Tablet Plimpton 322 recently decoded tells a different story altogether. This Tablet precedes Hipparchus by over 1500 years  Plimpton 322 reveals that the Babylonian were already using Trigonometry based on the sexagesimal system unlike the decimal system later used by the Greeks  Then who is the father of Trigonometry ?  Learn the Lessons  There are many lessons to learn from this factual observations.  Our worldly truths are like the truths of the Cosmos. Always changing & perpetually surprising  Never ever fixate your mind and make it a slave to one dime

The Uniformity in Digital World  The European Union(EU) wants to create a common charger for all the phones. It wants complete uniformity in electronic accessories The EU wants to reduce the electronic waste due to diversity in the phone chargers The similar efforts in 2009 failed due to interoperability between devices But in Technology the uniformity ultimately gets achieved for the ease of doing business Diversity is Humanity  But imagine creating similar controlled uniformity in human thoughts, ideas, ideology, perceptions etc in our existence It would be a Herculean disaster in the leadership of Ideas What looks as absolute necessity when we deal with Natural Sciences looks totally unscientific when we interact with the Social Sciences We as the people must know that there are worlds existing within the world. There are mini universes being born & breathing within the same universe Let me tell you the greatest Thumb Rule of human existence “ Uniformity is a blessing when we d

Translations laid the foundation of civilization  Every year 30th September is celebrated as the International Translation Day.  The art of translation actually laid the foundation of human civilization & its subsequent progress The Sumerians were the first to translate thoughts into pictorial languages The Akadians, Assyrians, Egyptians & the Babylonians improved upon it The civilization also improved along with it Translation is the transfer of Ideas & Vision  If the Greeks would not have borrowed Alphabets from the Phoenicians & then translated the Mesopotamian knowledge, there would have been no philosophy If the Arab-Persian-Turkish system would not have translated the Greek, Indian & Chinese knowledge, there would have been no Medieval civilization If the West would not have translated the Indian & the Arab- Persian- Turkish knowledge there would have been no Renaissance & the modern civilization Translation is the transmission of leadership of ideas &