Deep Adhya, PhD

In the movie ‘Full Metal Jacket’, the character of Joker is seen wearing a helmet with the words ‘Born to Kill’ and a vest with a peace button. He is a war journalist and believes in the duality of human nature.  How often have we seen nations going to war to preserve peace? Small nations declare war against large nations to leave them in peace. Large nations declare war against small nations to maintain peace within. Small nations declare war on their neighbours to prevent disruption of peace, and large nations declare war against large nations for the same reasons.  But, the willingness to go to war at the drop of a hat is just the end result of the natural indecision that each and every human being goes through.  Human beings love other human beings, but they also hate them. But this ability of one human being to show extreme love and extreme hate for another fellow being brings mutual respect between the two. Often, the fine balance between love and h...

Grace Are you done washing up?  Jim Almost! Just one more dish left.  Grace You could have done the dishes later. We are in the middle of a movie.  Jim There! I am done.  Grace Well?! Come on now!  Jim My hands feel rough and uneven like the surface of the moon, and dry. Let me just apply some cream, and I will be right there.  Grace You know, I think you are showing symptoms of OCD.  Jim This is no OCD. This is necessary. I have dry skin. If I don’t keep it moisturized it will soon start cracking, then bleeding, then God knows what.  Grace Then it is your dry skin that is giving you OCD? Case in point, you don’t get dry skin if you do not wash your dishes. In fact, you will get dry skin if you do. How about that?  Jim Then who will do my dishes? I will have to do my dishes anyway, if not now, two hours later, or tomorrow. By then the crumbs will have proudly ...

Jim  I can’t believe I am stuck in this project. I am giving it all the intellectual contribution any human can possibly give, yet I feel like I am the only one who cares about fixing the sinking ship. This is awful. While I tug at the various strings to tune up my project my boss seems to be only interested in cutting them without taking a glimpse at the problem. Can matters get any worse?  Grace But, you are not as unlucky as I am. My boss is only interested in improving her relations with people. By people I don’t mean just colleagues, but the whole lot of people including cab drivers. You should look at her display of pity for the cab drivers. Any human being in his position would do anything to appease and get the hell out.  Jim Don’t be so sure! My boss doesn’t go to the extent of praising cab drivers, but that may be because you don’t see too many females in that profession. My boss is a spider at the middle of his web, and we, his subjects are ...