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Serial bomb blasts have rocked my home town, Guwahati and I can’t help but feel terrible at this sudden loss of innocent lives. Worse still, I can’t do anything about the inaction of our sleeping goverment.

I spoke to my family and thankfully they are all fine and safe. But I wonder how many more lives will it take for the government to sit up, listen and wake up.

How many more people should die meaningless deaths, before we realize that what is going on is wrong ?

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If you ask me what is one of the most precious human quality that I would hate to lose, then my answer would be just one word: ‘Curiosity’.

I have always had a deep seated belief that it was curiosity which has led us to evolve as we have, over the millennia.

Was it not curiosity that led Copernicus to spend hours in his research to realize that the earth is not the center of this universe? Was it not curiosity that led Galileo to delve deep into nature and was it not curiosity that led Newton to postulate his famous laws ? Was it not curiosity that led Columbus to sail across the Atlantic ?

And believe me, it is curiosity that will lead humans to venture out to space one day, leaving behind earth, in search of the unknown.

But alas, these days, such curious people are hard to come by. This is very tragic and in fact shows the progression of mankind from a knowledge seeking species to a wealth and power gathering species.

I think, I am fortunate to still have that curiosity alive in me. This has fuelled my numerous quests for knowing all that I can. Needless to say, I am not able to understand everything, but as long as this curiosity is alive within me, I shall continue to learn new things and continue to look at this world with childlike wonder.

Hence, the title of this article. Poor curiosity was framed. It was ignorance which killed the cat.

Which is why curiosity is the best cure for ignorance.

~Seemanta

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I came across this very famous ad by Apple Inc., which I found to be very thought provoking.  Here is the embedded YouTube video for it.

A very moving ad indeed and from the day this ad was released to today, Apple continues to be the industry leading innovator! I must add,  an inspiring company and an inspiring ad !

~Seemanta

P.S. Here is an wikipedia article on the same.

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Finally! Here it is! My own blog. I have been thinking for some time now to start it. But it was sheer laziness that prevented me from taking the first step.

So, now that I have done it, let me welcome you to my blog. This blog would be a place to showcase my creations, views, opinions and anything and everything under the sky.

And being a true techie from the bottom of the heart, I have titled this blog ‘Hello, world’. Anyone remember the first C program from K&R book?

And last but not the least, I am not going to make this a tech-only blog. You can expect posts from various facets of life in here.

So stay tuned! Until the next post, good-bye!

regards,
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