The Science of Deduction

 If you have read at least one book in your life, that would have been a Sherlock Holmes (at least for the 90% of the crowd). I wouldn't say I grew up reading Sherlock Holmes mysteries, but there was a period during my teenage years when I was hooked on to them. I also have a big, fat, hardbound volume of all the Sherlock Holmes stories (I am a collector).
These stories were written in the late 19th century by a former policeman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He created this character and his loyal side-kick Watson starting a trend of amazing detective novels that we have enjoyed for years. Sherlock became so popular that many authors followed suit and created characters on similar lines, not many succeeded but those who did, achieved popularity for themselves and their characters. Some of them being Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot (my favourite amongst them all), Byomkesh Bakshi by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, Feluda by Satyajit Ray and many more.
But Sherlock remains the original. He is even immortalised by amazing actors like Louis Hector (The first to play Sherlock on the silver-screen), Basil Rathbone, Jeremy Brett (The one to portray Sherlock closest to the books), Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock in modern times) and Robert Downey Jr. (Guy Ritchie's take on the character).
As we are going to be indoors for more than 2 weeks, I am planning to swim in nostalgia for a bit and catch a refresher on the science of deduction. What do you think?
Stay indoors, stay healthy!


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After Darkness Comes the Light

In this time of difficulty, we are all waiting to hear some good news. A cure for the pandemic, a vaccination that would make us immune to the effects of this virus.
As social animals, staying indoors for days, not venturing out at all, is not our basic nature. We are even advised against meeting our neighbours for an evening chat. Even to despair together is not recommended. So what do we do? We find out ways to keep ourselves busy, inspired and happy.
Remember those busy days when you would think of taking weeks off to do things you like? Well, let's do those things. Let's start writing the book we always wanted to, let's work on the singers, artists and dancers within us. We have so much undiscovered within ourselves. Let's finish that ever-growing backlog of reading-list, movies and series. This is the time to binge-watch hundreds of episodes that you intended to, long ago.
And at the end of these dark times, we will see the light together. We will go back to our lives before the Corona lockdown. So that we look back and cherish these days, let's make them the best we can with whatever we have at our homes. Let's create the silver lining ourselves.
Stay indoors, stay healthy.


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