Redefining Horizons

  “Don’t Have to Fight to be a Man”   There is something haunting about the way Kenny Rogers sings ‘Coward of The County’. The concluding lines of the song depict the transformation of Tommy a confirmed pacifist to a fighter.   “I promised you dad, not to do the things you’ve done I walk away from trouble when I can Now please don’t think I’m weak if I didn’t turn the other cheek And Papa, I should hope you to understand Sometimes you gotta fight when you are a man”   There are times when one needs to pick up a fight and take it to conclusion.   Life is Like That   "In that case, we are striking work" thunders an agitated union leader. "We will declare a lock out" , declares an equally agitated GM Administration   "You agree or not, we are getting married" declares a dissenting son. “Don’t come back” shouts a distraught father Different words. Different settings. Yet essentially the same situation! A conflict is in escal...

  Safety of Ports or Sea of Opportunities? Ships, berthed at ports are safe. But aren't ships meant to be out there on the high seas, conquering waves and braving storms searching for treasures that lie seven seas and beyond? Life is no different. Caged in protective environments and living off what has been inherited is survival,  mere existence. Repeated setbacks and failures are integral to chasing dreams and fulfilling them. Triumphs over tribulations sweeten success to no end. Poise with which setbacks are handled and the determination to get back on the feet to persist with the fight set victors apart from the vanquished. Setback and spring back! The innocuous catapult has a lot to teach. Scenes Behind Success The pellet and the target grab all the attention. The straining structure, stretched strings and soft seating are seldom seen. It is the pellet’s impact that is always discussed and not what got it there. Without untiring stems, instantaneously retracti...

Orbitals -The Sub-atomic Domain Progress is irrevocably linked to man’s restless mind, his relentless attempt to find verifiable logic to everything seen and unseen, experienced and even remotely experienceable, visualisable or hardly visualisable. It is this ‘search-continuum’ that has helped humankind imagine, postulate, define, explain, test and prove or disprove anything and everything. The cathode-ray tube experiments of JJ Thomson in 1897 and discovery of electrons paved way for quantum leaps in research in the domain of subatomic particles. But it took many years of proving and disproving different hypotheses to explain behaviour of atoms in relation to its structure. Scientists, for now seem to agree on ‘energy-level’ based allocation of electrons to s, p d and f orbitals. Interestingly, even behaviour of both successful and unsuccessful individuals, can be explained by an analogy of the ‘ s, p d , f ‘architecture they operate from. Orbital theory for success and failure?...