He was resting at the well. I knew he’d sent his followers away, to get a much needed respite away from his busy schedule of teaching and preaching and healing. But as his head touched the side of the brick w
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I love reading the comments for my columns from readers, and something I’ve noticed is that there are readers who get motivated by the inspirational columns, and others who say, ‘it can’t be done!’There
Dr Brainerd PrinceWe began this story about the philosophy and practice of research with three buckets, similar to the colours of the traffic lights: red, green and yellow. All we have said until now has had to
Over three decades ago, while a young Rotarian, a game was played by the over hundred members of my club, and it was about who they felt was most popular. I was pleasantly surprised to find I had won.Two years
It was a tight slap on the actress that left its mark!An act that should be condemned, however much we try to justify the reason behind it. It was not done by some angry member of the public but carried out by
This is not a time to crow.Though the galvanising of thought and ideas were hugely successful, though the Constitution of the country has been saved, yet it is not a time to crow over one’s victory.There were
The mood in the country is rather mixed right now after the elections, but if all of us could focus on the positive instead of the negative, then the whole country would be happy again. I came across this wonde
Man has many weaknesses, but one of his biggest is he can never play the role of God. Strangely, many dream of being gods in some form or other, of having people loving them absolutely, praising them constantly
Maanal Gauri, Nainika Gupta, Nandana NAccording to an article by the Financial Express, every five minutes in India, a new person is diagnosed with some type of blood cancer. Among these, acute myeloid leukemia
Yes, there’s much to be learnt from the election results yesterday. But I’m going to cover only two, and that is compassion and arrogance.What India saw for the last few years for a resurgent Rahul, not the
June 5 is World Environment Day 2024Kamdi Hemant Bhaskar, IFSBackgroundUN - Conference on the Human Environment at Stockholm Sweden 1972, convened from 5-16 June where the United Nations Environment Programme a
Had been invited to speak at a book-launch and during the evening asked the new author when he planned to write another book, “I plan to take three months off, and go to some place quiet, where I am alone, an
Ever so often do I hear people telling me how they lay awake through the previous night. They make it sound like the end of the world.“You lay awake all night?” I ask laughing.“Yes,” they say, “yes, d
Maybe it’s the fact that I couldn’t complete my morning walk today, because I wasn’t feeling too well, that made me look for another alternative to walking.I stared at the advertisement: A walk machine! A
“I’ve made many wrong decisions in my life,” said a famous person, “But I’m proud of every one of them, because I made a decision!”Life is all about making decisions isn't it?So often we go through
It happened a few years ago, when a young Indian army officer serving in the dangerous Jammu and Kashmir region, received information that terrorists were firing indiscriminately onto the public at the Jammu Ra
Was in Bhopal a few months ago conducting a workshop on writing and public speaking, and having an extra day before heading home, was offered a sightseeing trip by a few students. There was a lot of Bhopal to b
Two months ago, Krystyna Pyszkova from the Czech Republic clinched the Miss World 2024 title at a grand ceremony held in Mumbai, but today I remembered my Miss World:She lived behind my house in a hut for just
Singing in one of the best choirs in the country and under the illustrious Coomi Wadia, I think I have been spoiled silly. A point she emphatically enforces is that in case a choir member makes a mistake during
There’s a soft terror that’s going unchecked in our country! As I watch politicians in our country speaking what they want and getting away with it, I’ve often wondered how they get away very often with m
