Friday, September 15, 2006
Duality is not ditty
The recent feud in the HP boardroom aside, the fallout of the much publicised scandal should have investors thinking about corporate governance. The CEO is also the Chairman now and perhaps will continue to be so until there arrives another emergency cleaving the posts.
But on a lighter note, it got me thinking about the duality of many things in the human world.
a. Its always a couples' world and the single man/woman is often subject to a feeling of inadequacy. And, no, I am not talking about the primal urge to procreate.
b. Its always the heart and soul, separate though inseparable. Atleast while one is alive.
c. There is Yin and Yang and a whole host of other meta-physical concepts including the very Hindu paap-punya that wont exist without one another.
d. Science goes that way too with Newtons law of action-reaction, his mathematical theory of differentiaton and integration and, infinite other pairs.
Nick Hornby's About a Boy takes the bull by its (yes, dual) horns and punctures its jugular with precision. What about back-up, redundancy and disaster recovery ? And Marcus, forced into being a twosome with his dysfunctional mother, forces a loner-seeking-dual-status-Will into the game. Of course, as the vital third...
Cheers !
The recent feud in the HP boardroom aside, the fallout of the much publicised scandal should have investors thinking about corporate governance. The CEO is also the Chairman now and perhaps will continue to be so until there arrives another emergency cleaving the posts.
But on a lighter note, it got me thinking about the duality of many things in the human world.
a. Its always a couples' world and the single man/woman is often subject to a feeling of inadequacy. And, no, I am not talking about the primal urge to procreate.
b. Its always the heart and soul, separate though inseparable. Atleast while one is alive.
c. There is Yin and Yang and a whole host of other meta-physical concepts including the very Hindu paap-punya that wont exist without one another.
d. Science goes that way too with Newtons law of action-reaction, his mathematical theory of differentiaton and integration and, infinite other pairs.
Nick Hornby's About a Boy takes the bull by its (yes, dual) horns and punctures its jugular with precision. What about back-up, redundancy and disaster recovery ? And Marcus, forced into being a twosome with his dysfunctional mother, forces a loner-seeking-dual-status-Will into the game. Of course, as the vital third...
Cheers !
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Tracing ancestry
The latest trend in anthropological studies is the tracing of human ancestry to the earliest living man. The Genographic project conceived and designed by Dr. Spencer Wells and National Geographic is perhaps one of the most publicised studies of our times. And, to its credit, has marketed itself well. While in Washington D.C earlier this year, I visited the NG museum and found a grand display of the project. And earlier this month, I read a full page feature in the Time magazine about a woman who attempted to trace her roots.
Every passing day renders the human gene more "diluted". Globalisation has brought different cultures, races and tribes in contact with each other and in the process has mired the human tree with more twists in its branches than every before.
If Sherlock Holmes and Jack Frost are icons of the detective world, then the Genographic project is the mother of all snoops. Would you disagree that there can be no greater curiosity than to determine with whom the buck started in the game of Life ?
I shall soon embark upon my personal journey ...
The latest trend in anthropological studies is the tracing of human ancestry to the earliest living man. The Genographic project conceived and designed by Dr. Spencer Wells and National Geographic is perhaps one of the most publicised studies of our times. And, to its credit, has marketed itself well. While in Washington D.C earlier this year, I visited the NG museum and found a grand display of the project. And earlier this month, I read a full page feature in the Time magazine about a woman who attempted to trace her roots.
Every passing day renders the human gene more "diluted". Globalisation has brought different cultures, races and tribes in contact with each other and in the process has mired the human tree with more twists in its branches than every before.
If Sherlock Holmes and Jack Frost are icons of the detective world, then the Genographic project is the mother of all snoops. Would you disagree that there can be no greater curiosity than to determine with whom the buck started in the game of Life ?
I shall soon embark upon my personal journey ...
