Another Thought

So who am I? Am I my body and face? Clearly, if someone changed my hands for a pair of robotic arms, it wouldn't make much of a difference would it? If my legs were replaced with that of a dog, I would definitely feel bad about it, but I would still be there. Am I the face? If they changed my face, oh I would feel quite weird. The face is a big marker of who I am perhaps. I would not recognize myself. I would say "Oh fuck, I look different now"! But that would still be me, after all, I am still Annapragada Krishna Prasanth. What if my name was changed? Well people have many names you see. But if essentially my name were changed, to say 'Rahul Modi', I would feel quite weird and perhaps laugh, but it would still be me wouldn't I. If I am not my name, not my face, not my body, the who am I?  Such a weird question to ask. Who am I. I am not my face, I am not my name, I am not my body. I am more than all of this. I am something behind my eyes I suppose, someth...

Never before in human history has such an immense cluster of personal information existed. People a decade back were dumbfounded by the convenience that these internet services offered, only never to realize the consequences that these would have when used on a mass scale. And hereby the present generation honoured and carried forward the legacy of the human race, of realizing the problems only when water reaches the neck. People have suddenly begun to fret about the right to privacy, when the very vanguards of their rights, their governments have already shredded it to pieces. It’s interesting to see a large number of people blaming internet companies, who ironically enough have honoured people's privacy more than their so called representatives.  For any debate on or analysis of Internet privacy issues, an understanding of the basic tenets of right to privacy becomes essential. Opponents of privacy rights, most of them based in our governments establishments believe that “Y...

I t’s the young who are hogging the headlines across the world. As a 29 year old Edward Snowden plays 'catch me if you can' with Uncle Sam and Turkish youngsters take to bathing in the streets under water cannons, not to forget Yousafzai Malala who has shot into world headlines, no thanks to that bullet shot through her head, there is no denying that the world is waking up to a new generation of leaders, ideologies and convictions. On can feel those tremors in India as well, but in a slightly different way. Mulayam Singh during UP assembly elections realized the importance of fielding his son as the CM candidate and promising free laptops to students instead of pressure cookers. So did Vijay Goel of BJP, who decided to take on Delhi University and force it into reducing cut-offs for Delhities, poor guy couldn't succeed but perhaps the real success will be determined in the elections scheduled later this year. This is what elucidates the difference in the ways the youn...