Positive Overtones

Travelling around any city in the world, one would always be exposed to a vast number of billboards, posters or flyers either advertising a product, promoting a film or expediting the sales of a magazine. But, what do we observe in all these pictures? Have you ever noticed the common thread among all these advertisings? This article aims to highlight the criteria for beauty in the media industry, its impact on men, women and adolescents, and the abuse of women in the media industry. Criterion for Beauty After observing a number of advertisements on the billboards around and the ones printed on the newspapers, I noticed one peculiar thing. Most of the models in the advertisements and film actresses, especially in India, are fair-skinned and possess a specific body-type. This observation of mine received further validation through an article I had read about the song All About the Bass by US singer Meghan Trainor. As the song progresses, one would observe that the lyrics of the...

The Pursuit of the Unknown Seeking knowledge is seeking an unknown. Wanting a burger is not the same as wanting knowledge as in the latter you do not know what you want. When we seek knowledge, we tend towards it intelligently and critically. It is a deliberate seeking. It is a combination of knowledge and ignorance. Knowledge, as it is sought consciously, intelligently, rationally, deliberately, methodically; and ignorance because we wouldn’t bother seeking if we already knew it. Finally, the possibility of the pursuit is the existence of an ideal. Development of the Ideal of Knowledge In Science In science, let us consider that the ideal of knowledge is the mathematization of nature that is that the whole of reality is in numbers. This was first proposed by the Pythagoreans who began developing laws. These laws were further improvised by Archimedes, Galileo and Euclid, to name a few, and they made systems out of it. One of the systems that emerged was that of the N...