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Conversations: On existence of soul and those two 'scientific' experiments that prove one!

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Waking up to conversations is a great way to start your day provided what the topic is and where it leads. “Do you believe in the concept of soul?” - I was asked by a friend of mine who had just woke up from his sleep. For a moment I thought he was still asleep or in a dream or attempting just plain mischief which we do most of the times. Nevertheless it put me into thoughts; not that I had not thought of this before but have never arrived to any conclusion to state anything on this matter of fact. So I was silent for sometime and was trying to indulge in some buffoonery. “I'm not sure of any side but I do believe there exists something more complex than DNA to which we all attribute life. As far as I can tell science doesn't deny nor agree the existence of soul but do believe that there is something that we all call life; nobody knows what exactly makes us ‘living’ beings, what is that which gives us life.” For instance if we dissect a man into his constituent pieces

Panama Papers and the need to thank our Brave Journalists

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The world on Monday woke up to what could easily be called the news of our time. It was not another terror attack that shooks a certain part of the world cutting across borders or that news of economic meltdown which makes elite bite their nails, it was a leak bigger than that of Wikileaks that took world by storm. The sheer numbers are massive, more massive is their reach and the people they belong too. The leak unlike Wikileaks doesn’t revolve around United States anymore, it is engulfing the whole of world. It in a way unites the high and mighty in their dirty games. It strips the mask from the elite who boast repeatedly of integrity and other high terms. Panama Papers are but huge leak of confidential documents which reveal how the reach and powerful use tax havens to hide their taxes. At the heart of all this storm is a Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca with its 11.5 million confidential documents comprising detailed information about 214,000 offshore c