Aviyal

This universe - our universe - is 13.8 billion years old. And it is massive. It is so massive that the human brain which is programmed to deal with everyday objects cannot even hope to imagine how big it is. It is so big that no matter how long we live, no matter how advanced our technologies, we will never be able to see more than a very very tiny fraction of the universe. Our sun, our own star that is the source of all life - while being huge and important to us, is insignificantly tiny compared to the aforementioned size of the universe. The sun is in what we could call the outskirts of the milky way galaxy, in the edge of a spiral arm, orbiting a supermassive blackhole along with what we could only assume as billions of more stars, bigger and brighter than our sun. And there are billions of more galaxies, each having its own horde of a hundred billion suns. Our sun isn’t special. But it is old. Being a second (or possibly third) generation star, the sun is 4.6 billion years old, g...

  THE PROBLEM “Kevalam tea vikkiravan car vachirukan” “Paal vikkiravan bullet la varan” “Bathroom kaluvuravan Iphone vachurukan” You might have heard these kinds of comments at least once in your life and there is a fair chance you have laughed at it, well, there is even a chance you said it. But have you ever thought about why these kinds of comments exist and why it is normal and why they are deeply problematic? If a tea seller has a car, it means that person has the money to buy and maintain that car.  Even though they have the money, why do people still say these kinds of things? One obvious answer is their job. People are always rated according to their job. Some might call it internalized capitalism, but it is more than that even. A janitor job might pay no less than an engineering job (fact) but a janitor will never receive the same respect as the en...