Cockroach Janta Party, a newly launched rebellion by the youth. This is going quite viral. Its Instagram page has crossed 8 M followers. Which direction is this rebellion bound to take?
Would you like to share your opinions?
Reporter: India is getting quite hot Modiji.
Modiji: Not as much as Meloni.
"The summer has just started, and some places are already exceeding 46°C. But who wants to hear about that sh!t. To hell with Global Warming.Melony aur modi ki Jodi dekho logo ko C banate raho."
Mulla Nasruddin is quite famous for his jokes. But I didn't expect him to poke a joke on patriarchy better than most modern feminism.
This one, for example,
The Smart Donkey: A traveler asked Nasruddin how his donkey became so uniquely disciplined. Nasruddin revealed, "It is quite simple. I speak to him exactly the way I speak to my wife. He learned incredibly fast to just listen and obey."
We can learn many things from his jokes. Have you heard some of them? Would you like to share?
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This is not accidental it is biological.
Ethologist Konrad Lorenz proposed the concept of Kindchenschema, or “baby schema” a set of physical traits such as large eyes, a high forehead, chubby cheeks, and a rounded body. These features reliably trigger nurturing and caregiving responses, along with reduced aggression.
In other words, what we call “cuteness” is a built-in survival mechanism.
When an organism is small, it is fragile, dependent, and highly vulnerable. It cannot defend itself and relies entirely on protection for survival. To increase its chances, Nature equips the young with features that activate care and tenderness.
This reduces aggression in others, and increases the likelihood of care even from those who are not its parents.
A fully grown cobra does not need to appear cute. It has developed strength and the ability to protect itself.
This is absolutely bs, but still, people are consuming it. Bhakts of Babaji consume it, fans of betting master consume it. Slowly slowly, you won't even know, but you slip deeper into their trap.
This viral video was getting recommended to me since a long time and I ignored it at first thinking it'll be just surface level outrage to get views but it's a genuinely good critic video pointing at something important.
Also found this in video description, the person says:
>Here are some things i want to say we are running after JEE / NEET / CUET / SSC / UPSC / Marriage / relationships / sex / children / marks / oth.. we are all conditioned from the birth in everything plus we are not allowed to question anything and also a lot of expectations are there on us therefore we feel trapped, result ? : a lot of people end their life in this pressure
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>we just have one life and is very short , we all are going to end , and after just some years you will not be remembered even in the thoughts , why wasting life and mental health then ?
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>some people i would suggest listening : (listen with open mind, but don't make them your life master)
>Acharya Prashant
Osho
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>some fields i would suggest exploring :
>Psychology
Philosophy
evolution
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>I would suggest one thing in the very first
listen to Acharya Prashant (with open mind, just listen him and see what he is trying to tell on different topics - Not as a BLIND FOLLOWER but as a person who is trying to tell you something)
If someone is reading this post after watching the video then here are some videos from Acharya Prashant on this topic:
Motivation: cheap drug to run blindly
How to have constant motivation
Kindly read and share your insights.
**A Short Play in One Act**
Based on the dialogue with Acharya Prashant
Characters
ROHAN – 19, first-year engineering student. Intense, ambitious, recently escaped a year of total isolation for exams. Now terrified of both solitude and connection.
PRIYA – 20, his classmate. Warm, outgoing, secretly exhausted by her own search for “the right people.”
GURUJI – 50s, visiting mentor. Calm, piercing, slightly amused by human drama. Speaks with quiet authority.
Setting
A stone bench under a banyan tree on a college campus at Twilight. Streetlights flicker on. Distant sounds of laughter and music from a freshers’ party. SCENE The bench is empty. ROHAN enters carrying heavy books, drops them, and sits. He stares at his phone, then puts it face-down. He looks around, restless.
ROHAN (to himself)
I did it. Got the branch I wanted. The college I wanted. Now what? Lock myself in the room again? Newton did it. But Feynman… Feynman threw parties.
(beat)
I’m scared of the heavy feeling again. That silence when everything falls apart and there’s no one. Just… me. PRIYA walks past, notices him, hesitates, then sits at the far end of the bench.
PRIYA
Hey. You’re the guy who vanished during lunch all last week.
ROHAN (forced smile)
Yeah. Studying.
PRIYA
We all are. But some of us also breathe.
ROHAN
I used to breathe alone. It worked. Until it didn’t. Now everything feels… incomplete. Like I’m missing a piece. Everyone says the same thing—college is when you find your people. Your person.
PRIYA (soft laugh, but tired)
I tried that. Dated three different “pieces” this semester. Each time I thought, This is it. Now I’ll feel whole.
(beat)
Turns out two half-people just make a very loud quarter.
ROHAN
Exactly. So what do we do? Stay alone and rot? Or keep hunting for someone who fixes us? They sit in awkward silence. The party music swells for a moment. ROHAN (quietly)
I keep seeing these images in my head. Perfect couples on Instagram. Best-friend groups laughing in reels. And then I look at my empty room and feel… guilty. Like I’m failing at life.
PRIYA
It’s not empty. It’s crowded. Crowded with everyone telling you that you need someone. The ads, the movies, your aunties, your algorithm. Loneliness isn’t the absence of people, Rohan. It’s the crowd inside. TEACHER enters slowly from the path, walking as if the campus belongs to him. He carries a small cloth bag. He stops near the bench.
TEACHER
May I? They nod. He sits between them, surprisingly at ease.
TEACHER (gentle, to ROHAN)
You were in isolation for your prep year. You got what you wanted. Now you’re afraid to go back in. Tell me when you sit alone with your books, who is really there with you?
ROHAN
Just me.
TEACHER
No. You, plus a thousand voices. “You need friends.” “You need a girlfriend.” “You need to be liked.” That is not solitude. That is a marketplace. Loneliness is never the absence of bodies. It is the presence of these images.
PRIYA (leaning in)
Then what is a good relationship?
TEACHER (smiling)
The union of two beggars cannot produce a billionaire. Two incomplete people do not suddenly become whole. They become two incomplete people… holding hands and pretending.
(beat)
Relate to everyone. Belong to the entire universe. Laugh with a thousand people tonight if you want. But never run to another human because your inside feels hollow. That is violence to them, and to yourself.
ROHAN
So I just… achieve inner completeness first? How? By finishing my goals? Getting a job?
TEACHER
No. Nothing to achieve. You walk into a room full of people, you speak, you leave exactly as you came neither richer nor poorer. No one can add to you. No one can subtract. When you relate from that place, even silence with one person is relationship. Even a crowd is solitude. He looks at both of them.
The world is full of others. That is beautiful. Just don’t use them as medicine for a sickness that was never real. A long pause. The party music has faded. Only crickets and leaves.
PRIYA (softly, almost laughing)
I’ve been carrying two broken halves around like they were going to magically click.
ROHAN (to TEACHER)
And if being with someone brings out anger… or fear… or things I don’t like about myself?
TEACHER
Wonderful. Learn. See your own falseness. But learn and move on. Do not pitch a tent in the jungle just because the jungle showed you that you are afraid of the dark. He stands, picks up his bag.
TEACHER
The epidemic is not loneliness. The epidemic is the belief that you are incomplete.
(He smiles at them both.)
Go to the party. Or don’t. Just don’t go because you are running from yourself. He walks off into the night. The bench light catches ROHAN and PRIYA’s faces. They look at each other not with hunger, but with something lighter.
ROHAN (quiet, almost surprised)
You want to… walk to the library? No pressure. Just… not alone.
PRIYA (grinning)
Only if we can sit on opposite tables and still feel like we’re together. They pick up the books. They walk off together not leaning, not rushing just walking. LIGHTS SLOWLY FADE.
THE END
(Curtain. Or, in a theater, the banyan tree leaves rustle once then silence.)
After going through the AP framework,
now I understand
why Dettol can kill only 99.9% bugs 🤫🤫
That remaining 0.1% is the psychological ego. 😶🌫️
The Bhangra was surprising. I wasn't expecting that. It was amazing.
This PAGRI carries a great responsibility.
It means that this head will bow only before Waheguru, and before no one else.
It will bow before Truth, not before deceit.
It will bow before love, not before blind tradition.
Man’s Search for Meaning is usually read as a book about resilience: even in the camps, Frankl saw that people endured more when they still had a “why” , love, responsibility, work, or a future.
But there’s another uncomfortable question here:
Is meaning always freedom, or can it also be something the mind clings to so it does not collapse?
A role, relationship, goal, or future can give life depth. But it can also become scaffolding for fear, loneliness, and incompleteness.
That does not reduce Frankl’s suffering or the reality of the camps. In that context, meaning could be what kept someone inwardly alive.
But the question remains:
Do we become free by finding better meaning, or by understanding why we need meaning so badly in the first place?
Would love to know how others see Frankl's writings.
A tiger walks ahead of packed tourist jeeps.
We saved it from poachers, then turned its home into a stress zone.
A CSIR-CCMB study across 5 tiger reserves found stress hormones rising sharply during peak tourism months. We don’t go to see the forest. We go to feed the ego, the self.
As Acharya Prashant says, without self-knowledge, we keep chasing experiences while disturbing life around us.
There are two kinds of movements. Ego thinning and ego fattening. Based on what I've seen in recent years, the world has one new achievement to add on their bucket list, "climbing the everest." If it just becomes like buying a new car, a new house, then what's the point?
I want to know your opinions on this.
My close friend recently completed BTech and is hell bent on an MBA into advertising/brand management.
It looks perfect on paper decent money, family security, a bit of “creativity,” and an accepted path. But he’s starting to feel that something is amiss/askew. He admits the choice feels driven mostly by fear of uncertainty and instability, fear of disappointing people, fear of not fitting in.
There’s this quiet inner voice that asks for something more experimental and real, but he keeps repressing it.
He even wonders if advertising is genuine creativity or just learning to sell stuff for corporations. Is he signing up for the same conditioned grind as everyone else?
Through my conversation I gave him some recommendations. His honesty made me realise he is asking for a way out. Not many people have that these days. I shared with him some articles by Acharya Prashant which have helped me a lot to get out of these kinds of situations.
Anyone here been in this spot (or helped a friend through it)? Took the conventional route or trusted the uncertain pull? How did it turn out?
Trying to give him honest perspectives.
When you're lagging behind someone, don't just try to defeat them. Ask yourself, “Is this truly my best, or is there still hidden potential within me?”
Most people die without ever discovering what they were truly capable of. Don’t let that happen to you.
Horse riding is the least talked about aspect of animal cruelty. Many consider it a fun activity and entertainment, but why are we so that we only choose abuse for our "fun!"
Hollywood movies make it seem cool. Many people get influenced and want to be cool like their star, but what they don't show is the aftermath.
Injured back,
starvation and dehydration,
untreated injuries or infections,
wounds from harsh equipment like tight bridles or whips,
exhaustion from overwork,
fear, anxiety, and trauma,
lameness or permanent disability.
“Don’t ask the blacksmith
what iron tastes like.
Ask the horse
whose mouth bears the bridle.”
~ Dhumil
I remember Nietzsche when he saw a horse being whipped and fainted. Only a person of that caliber could understand that pain.