“Excellent fruit sir! Sweet and tasty! Just look at the skin!”I looked at the fruit and there was no doubt in my mind they were ripe and ready for eating. I wondered whether the fruit vendor could see I was
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Suddenly little online ads are appearing on social media, telling us what to eat, what not to eat and the illnesses and diseases you can get by eating the wrong food. It doesn’t stop there, other ads mention
The first thing that happens when there is violence or rioting is to shut down the internet.Why?In the good old days when kings sat in their castles and sent their men into battle, quite often, guards from his
I watched as my wife trudged across the living room with a bucket of clothes to be washed. I watched again as my younger daughter also trudged across with a bucket of water to water the plants. “Hey,” I sho-
“Oh Lord,” I prayed this morning when I woke, “Give me a path of ease!”I had slept badly last night, thinking of a meeting I had with troublemakers who were bent on creating a disturbance at an AGM, and
So, you have a dream of a start-up business in mind? One that will revolutionize the industry? You feel it is the need of the hour and one that will certainly earn you millions! Wonderful! But how much time hav
One day while it was snowing in New York, I happened to glance outside and saw a young girl. She walked on the pavement opposite mine, and I stood transfixed!She went at a gait that left everybody else behind,
One early morning activity that is seen in all the towns and cities in our country is that of cars being washed. Millions of gallons of water I am sure, is used by thousands of watchmen and pump men and man ser
Once upon a time, there was a man who had many sons. The sons, on the other hand, were always fighting with each other. As the man became older and weaker, he became worried that his sons would ruin themselves
Have you ever thought that when we are young, we are so filled with trying to make it high in the world, to pass our exams, getting a good job, then working hard to get the next promotion and a better designati
“Watch out!” I shouted as my driver swerved to avoid the cyclist then jumped out of the car and ran to pick up the fallen man.That’s when I saw his bicycle.It lay old and rusty. I looked down at it and it
He was a brilliant conductor, but I soon found out, one, who could not handle authority. Every time he was asked to speak with the committee about music or concerts, he felt he was being insulted or humiliated.
Today, as the six--year old twins and their mother, my daughter, leave my home for New York, I found what I’d written when they first visited India, and left five years ago: ‘The twins are no longer w
What about having a ‘Forgiveness Day’?What’s that, you ask, what d’you mean by such? Well, since this government seems to be blessing us with days to remember atrocities and injuries, what about a day t
As I look at those who raise their hands in worship in a church, temple or masjid, I realize for me my soul lifts up in praise to my Maker and Creator at moments when I view or hear beauty in creativity!I saw s
‘Ahoy! Ship aground!’ I nearly shouted, as a couple of years ago while driving down near Worli Sea face in Mumbai, my wife and I saw the strangest of sights; just a couple of hundred feet away from us, loom
Increasingly every day, I'm hearing about the use of the lie detector by the police. For many years I’d thought that the polygraph machine was only used with the consent of the accused party but I’m beginni
We all love making resolutions to lose weight or start a hobby or something, don’t we? The problem is getting started.Dorothy Heller illustrated this with an all-too-true poem:I spent a fortuneOn a treadmill,
Many countries line up to greet the young seventy-seven-year-old, " Happy Birthday India!" says China, "May you become as great a super power as I am!""I already am," smiles India, "with a billion and quarter p
How often I meet people who fight the fact they are growing old.Here are some lines on ageing, some borrowed and some my own:‘Old age is a gift. I am now, probably for the first time in my life, the person I
