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 their parents yelling at them, later. I couldn’t imagine as to what, and why, were they doing this? I found it to be silly. U. Mahesh Prabhu writes more.
Shiv Vishwanathan laments the loss of our private space and feels we are too scared of our individuality and subsume our identity traits in a sea of trivia.
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 price, in other words, the lowest profit he had made in a trip from a passanger. Sunil Thapliyal writes more.
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. Sunil Thapliyal writes more.
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 instructions will have fewer buyers. Already, people have stopped naming their dogs Ramu, Golu or Mohan. They call them Tommy, Rocky or Jockey. English, the Dalit Goddess, has overwhelmed us all. Chandrabhan Prasad writes more.
This piece 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 to look for their solutions in the Bhagavad-Gita. From the chapter ‘Lack of Confidence’
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.
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 physical. It is almost a couple of years since the Indian Parliament has been routinely subjected to such ruckus. Bharath Bhushan Padmadeo writes more.
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 had three claims to fame: First, she was the only teacher in the school who addressed her students by Miss or Mr. and their last name (I was Miss Baron); second, she taught Dave Garraway, the original host of the NBC “Today” show; and three, she looked like a bull dog. Grandma Ellen writes more.
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, was a bit unusual, not able to talk properly. However, she spoke fluent English and seemed to be from a good family. Sunil Thapiyal writes more.
