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LIFE IS A GIFT

Today before you say an unkind word-Think of some one who cannot speak.

Before
You complain about the taste of food-Think of someone who has nothing to eat.

Before

Due to a quirk of fate, I had joined this not so prestigious college. It was depressing for someone that young.

Gregory David Roberts, author of the international bestseller 'Shantaram', has in this book written a beautiful tribute to the Enfield Bullet.

It is not possible that you grew up without getting spanked or punished ever in your childhood.

Those were very tough days for a young guy in his first job like me. Bosses in India are not always taught in the best of schools or told how to behave around men.

I was having a long debate about Science and Spirituality on Facebook.

While Gubdu babu would get restless around 7 months inside the womb, I would sit on a comfy sofa, close my eyes and listen to Bach.

असत्य की पहचान में ही असत्य से मुक्ति है

We all avoid pain. Which doesn't mean that we can avoid it. We just avoid the pain we haven't experienced for the pain that we have.

This poem is the expression of a plant.

In an amusing take on the Indian dream, a 60 year old school dropout from Andhra Pradesh has demonstrated that you do not need prestigious degrees to bag big deals.

This morning, when I read the newspaper, the article written by Prof Rajendar Kachroo, father of late Aman Kachroo, brought tears in my eyes.

Pregnancy in general, forms a pattern. Apprehension-ease-discomfort. It's at its speedy best after 36 weeks when you're approaching full-term (Full-term is 37-42 weeks).

I wrote this some time back :

Beauty is about personality, they say now. Participants in one study say its:

• 70% about being confident
• 67% having good looks
• 47% being stylish

Imagine the stature of a Palm tree - royal and grand as it looks, standing seven feet tall on a prominent Delhi Road, named after another grand personality - Bhishma Pitamah.

The situation in Kashmir is strongly contested, historically misrepresented and ideologically argued.

Blogosphere is an amazing world, with each blog speaking its own mind, having its own personality. Your profile picture and your profile name is the window to the reader to your little world.

You must have heard "maturity has nothing to do with age".

India finally has a currency symbol for the Rupee. Five symbols were shortlisted.

A gag order is coming in within the IT industry in India at least.

Paul, the Octopus is on a tear. He has had a near perfect record of predicting this year's World Cup soccer matches.

I saw a tiny baby girl, about 2 years old in the Chicago airport about 3 years back. Angel-faced and so adorable.

Ooops.. our scientists just discovered that we have a defective Universe. It has a hole! A BIG one! One billion light years across.

I am not launching a long diatribe against “Indian education system “but my concern is towards many young toddlers who are going to grapple next 22 years of their life under the Diktat of their parent

Jinnah wanted to establish a Muslim-majority state, but not a Muslim-majoritarian state that would privilege Muslims over non-Muslims in their status and rights as citizens; hence he spoke of Pakistan

Soham is six and a half months old now. You must be wondering how my days and nights passed initially and what exactly I was up to for all these months. Frankly, its all a blur to me now.