What’s said about stories can also be said about dreams. Good things in life are not even true. In fact, dreams are worse. The ones you see while sleeping, you can’t remember after waking up. The ones you see while waking up, won’t let you sleep and will grind your life to powder before coming [...]
Happiness is overrated. Peace is overrated. But we need those concepts as much as we need religion and alcohol. We are strange beings. We are like the sea. To be at peace, to be constant, is impossible. It’s against nature. As soon as civilization began, so began the efforts to discipline the mind. The yogas, [...]
Dear Mai Baap, Let me begin by telling you that I consider it my good fortune to be born here, a great civilization that dates back thousands of years. I congratulate you on preserving so many things from those times – our society, its mindset, our attitude toward women, our infrastructure and the relation between [...]
Love marriage or arranged marriage? It is as much about individual choice as societal setting. Some societies consider the right to choose as obvious while others see it as a punishable offence. In fact, in quite a few parts of India, it is not a romantic question at all, it is a matter of life [...]
Quite a few mosquitoes, when you try to kill them, will fly high and away no sooner than your slap misses them. Some others are indifferent indifferent to the thunder and hover close to their point of attack nonchalantly, completely impervious to the assassination attempt. Eventually, just to state a matter of statistical accuracy, these daredevils are [...]
This is an essay that you have to write if you are applying at Google India. Good thing is you have to write it from home. So, basically a screening test. I wrote the following for one of my friends. She cleared the screening round, at least. So here it goes: Slavery has always been [...]
This is a brilliant idea but a forgivable and forgettable plan of action. The world is moving toward organic food, sustainable and inclusive growth, harmonic existence and a lot many other English phrases. When it comes to nature, there seems to be an overwhelming consensus. However, when about people, we are still unsure about how [...]
The great recession is fading, at least in waves. Many still don’t believe the reprieve would be any time sooner. However, that’s a matter of debate on a finance log, in which I have no particular expertise. We all agree that it’s been long and depressing. Some companies are slowly coming out of a ruthless [...]
I am not using the “a” as an article here. It is used as a numeric, so it will mean something like “why can’t one man be one man?” That doesn’t make much sense…does it? Let me try and explain. Very few of us men – and women, I am going to use “men” to [...]
