It’s a day and night journey by car between Dubai and Israel. In Dubai, the Women’s T20 championship is being held, and cricketing countries wait with bated breaths as their women slog balls all over the fi
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This happened a few years ago, when as the chairman of my colony, the doorbell rang, and a watchman stood outside my door. It was two in the morning. “Drunk girl on one of the building's staircases, sir!” h
A few years ago I watched the movie ‘Mr and Mrs Iyer’ on the small screen and loved every moment of Aparna Sen’s movie. The scene I loved best is when the rioters enter the bus in search of Muslims; I wat
As I had planned to start the writing of my latest book this morning, my mind was initially feverish with plots and impressive beginnings for the first chapter. It was like hundreds of little characters jumping
My wife, a medical doctor, is quite strict about the sweets I’m allowed to have, and when she does give me permission, laughs as I take it, sit on my favourite rocking chair, take one bite at a time and relis
...The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God’s compassion: he has given it to them to protect the helples... Sri RamakrishnaMaybe, as the world gets divided in its views on both the Israeli war an
Many decades ago while in my teens I loved taking the double- decker bus from the city, run up the stairs to the upper deck, rush to the front seat, and enjoy a glorious ride to the Mumbai suburbs. As night set
Most of the nastiest fights take place not on battlefields or war zones, but within a bedroom. Fights, which are mainly words, and I’m not going to talk about fist fights or slaps or blows because perpetrator
After yesterday's column on the Gift of Boredom, I decided to delve a little more on the benefits of being bored:Enhanced creativity: Boredom can force your mind to wander and explore new ideas. When you’re n
Tomorrow I’ll be addressing teachers and my talk is on ‘Fostering Creativity and Imagination,’ “What’s a gift we all have received but we most dislike?” I’m going to ask, and then will tell them,
While walking in the park a few years ago I passed an elderly gentleman, a friend of mine, who seemed to be walking a tad slowly and pensively, “A penny for your thoughts?” I asked.“I think I’m getting
T’was just this morning I opened the paper and found a pretty model showing her dainty self on a dozen different beds. Bewitching, she looked beckoning newspaper readers to glance at different rooms of a hote-
Once while dripping down the highway I thought, “What a drive!”As I drove I noticed tire marks that crisscrossed the road. “Burst tires!” I realized. Tires of motorists who had not checked their air pre
While others play badminton, watch Netflix, or read a book for ‘timepass’; a term I find quite cute, I’m caught very often watching steam engine videos.I believe there is no ferocious, powerful, robust, b
One day while sitting on the bench on the platform of a station, I saw the railways had put up a signboard picturing two ghosts talking to each other, with one saying in bold letters, “I CROSSED ONLY ONCE!”
“…Enthusiasm makes ordinary people extraordinary…” … Bruce BartonA man had died and the whole city mourned his death. At a club everybody discussed his life and also reminded each other of one charact
It was a jaded old man called Donald, spewing the same mouthfuls of hate and anger against immigrants and foreigners, I’d heard during his tenure as the President. He’d divided the country with his rhetoric
A few years ago I was invited to a prestigious business group.They wanted me to give them a presentation about the small advertising company I owned. I did and a few days later got a call saying they’d decide
Yesterday I had written on ‘pressing the pause’ button, but how do we press ‘pause’? How do we cultivate the habit of stillness?According to Karin Lawson, a psychologist, you can even cultivate stillnes-
It’s been nearly a year since I walked into a plane to Goa, sat next to someone who was busy on her laptop, and then heard her say, “We both are speakers for the same event you know!”Ridima Wali, the same
