Positive Overtones

The Night Train at Deoli  As narrated by the girl with the basket It was one of those once-in-a-lifetime incidents that one experiences over the course of their life. I used to stay at Deoli when this happened. I was an orphan who lost my parents in an attack by some wild animals, and so I lived with my middle-aged aunty. We had acres of bamboo plantation so we decided to use those canes to make baskets as my aunt was a good weaver. But, then the question arose: Who would buy our hand-made baskets? Deoli was a small town where handmade baskets were quite common. So, I decided to sell these baskets at the one-place I knew (or I thought I knew) people would buy: the solitary railway platform! I was a girl who just hit my adolescence phase so it was quite an experience to go daily to the platform to sell baskets. Before I tell you the things I noticed there, let me give you an introduction as to what comprised the Deoli railway station. There was a mango tree, perha...

Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari (Book Reiew) Gliding on the success of his previous book, Sapiens , Yuval Noah Harari published yet another eye-opening best-seller entitled Homo Deus. Published in 2016, Harari attempts to reveal the expected future based on events of the past and present. He present the origin, effects and challenges of present day theories like humanism, modernism and liberalism and how it is changing the world we live in. Following the end of the prequel, Harari goes on to say that we are heading towards making our species extinct, just like we did to the other human species, while also paving the way for a new advanced species that could be termed as Homo Deus. At the time when there were many species, we managed to organize ourselves despite having smaller brains and thus we were able to overpower the other species which in truth were much stronger than us. With the dawn of each revolution it seemed like we were heading towards our doom, but we survived...