The Unabridged Version of a Rational Emotional Mind

I was watching this episode of Brooklyn 99 (Season 5, Episode 14) in which Jake Peralta and Raymond Holt interrogate the perfect criminal, Philip – a dentist who murdered his business partner leaving no traces behind. Even after 14 hours of intense interrogation, both these officers could not get an inch near making Philip confess. Until, they exploited a fear they identified in him during the interrogation – The fear of being considered a product of sheer luck. Philip, as stated before, was a dentist. As a norm, he was often ridiculed as not being a real ‘doctor’. His insecurity or fear had made him so uptight that as he tried to defend his perfect alibis in the interrogation room, he also wanted to prove to the officers how good he was. But when Jake tugged on Philip’s underlying insecurity real nice by calling the entire murder operation a product of ‘dumb luck’, Philip spiraled and confessed everything in a heartbeat. This was all in his attempt to disprove the relevance of h...

CBSE 12 th results were released yesterday, and the unachievable was finally achieved. 100% marks is not a utopian concept anymore. It is a reality in front of our eyes made true by two dedicated youths of our country – Divyanshi Jain and Tushar Singh. While these students bask in the glory of cent percent marks, a thought arose in my mind. Something that must have popped up in the minds of countless others like me- How did they score 100% in English? One of the toppers stated thus and I quote, “I don’t think one should get full marks in English because no letter or essay can be perfect”. Today, I dare to ask, why not? If all that I wanted to state through my essay is ‘An apple a day keeps the doctor away’ and I defended every single aspect of my views with perfectly articulated arguments, is my essay not perfect? Had I written a letter in real life instead of my answer script would my future employer have declined my job because I missed the EXACT points he or she intended me t...