A Homily on Love
Not so long ago when I didn’t understand even the first letter of word “Love” – I would be in awe thinking about it. I was baffled when I saw young chaps stuck to their computer screens connected to the internet messengers only to speak to their “sweethearts”, or just talking on the phone seamlessly, without any sense of time, only to see More...
Home alone and scared
By Shiv Vishwanathan In our social space, we seem to have lost our privacy forever. We now blog about a cheating husband, air our grievances about something as routine as blocked drains to rank outsiders and tweet More...
Breaking Records
By Sunil Thapliyal Records are meant to be broken, and this is not just restricted to the sports field. Recently, I got a chance to challenge an auto driver to break his record of charging a passenger the cheapest More...
Why fight on roads?
By Sunil Thapliyal Road rage has become a part of Delhi’s traffic woes. Every day many incidents take place, several people are victimised and human life becomes cheap than dust. Once I was waiting at a bus stand More...
English Goddess
By Chandrabhan Prasad So, let us believe that English is the language of modern knowledge and English culture the language of modernity. Forget humans, within a decade dogs and cats that can’t follow English More...
Spiritual solutions
The following is an extract from 100 Roadblocks: Unblocked through the Words of Lord Krishna by Ajit Kumar Bishnoi and Anil Kumar Jha. The authors here have identified common problems afflicting mankind and tried More...
How to stop a car with no brakes
Almost everyone who drives learns how to change a tyre, but how many of you know how to stop a car with no brakes. we will tell you all about stopping a car without any brakes. First of all, don’t panic. It is More...
Character of Leadership
By Bharat Bhushan Padmadeo It was a sad day in the history of Indian Parliamentary democracy when in full television glare some honourable members of the Parliament lost all sense of civility and sanity and turned More...
Wonderful, Wonderful Teachers
By Grandma Ellen I don’t have one memorable teacher from my school days. I have two. Mrs. Margaret Farrar was my English literature teacher during my sophomore and junior years in high school. Mrs. Farrar More...
We, the People
By Sunil Thapliyal On Wednesday, while waiting for a bus to return home, I was surprised when a girl came to me and asked me, “Can I make a call from your mobile? I noticed that she was around 25 years of age, More...
