Think Tank

World The way we think and the way we play War!  “The Chinese soldiers dressed like monks. So, for a layman, they will look like monks. But the swords they had, were not Tibetan, they were Chinese.”: Dalai Lama. This statement came up in yesterday’s HT with the daily report about Tibetan struggle.  This made me [...]

World Two stories and Three Nations Once I was known for my well researched writing. Afterwards, I became known for my more frequent posts. Then two things happened. First was a New Year resolution that I won’t sacrifice quality for quantity. Second, one of you told me that blog posts have to be a piece from our [...]

BooksMen and leaders Where have all the leaders gone? I am a huge Iacocca fan. It happened when I read his autobiography (Iacocca: An Autobiography). This son of a migrant Italian family, which came to US with nothing but a hope, started humbly and went on to become the President of Ford Motor Company. He came out [...]

Reap as you sowBooks The Zahir Zahir means: Someone or something which once we have come into contact with, gradually occupies our every thought, until we can think of nothing else. This can be considered either as a state of holiness, or madness.  As I started reading this book, I started hating Paulo Coelho. Why? You will [...]

Books The Witch of Portobello I would confess that this book disappointed me. Not because it is not good enough, but because after reading so many books of Paulo Coelho, I have started seeing a pattern. As things start getting repeated, they get boring too.  I would start with an interesting episode from the book. Please note [...]

Ek kahaani… Ek chhota sa khargosh tha. Us din woh thoda der se so kar utha. Uthne ke baad usne ghar ke bahar jhaank kar dekha. Suraj kafee upar aa chuka tha. Bhookh bhi lag rahee thi. Woh jumping jumping karta hua Joggers’ Park ki taraf dauda.  Good God, ghaas abhi bhi bhingi thi – oss [...]

Say Ram  When I saw this picture some weeks before in HT Brunch, something happened to me. I don’t know how to express that, but it was something like a strong attraction. Then I took a snap of the picture. At that time, I didn’t know what to do with the picture.  On Saturday evening, [...]

Gods also learnt it, the hard way… This picture was published in HT one day. This is a snap of the same. What do you see in it? It’s a completely different world out there.  Some things that cooked inside my mind while I see this picture:  Education: Ram got educated in ashrams, under distinguished and [...]

In support to Tibetan struggle for freedom.  Will write an article in some time.

Why God is not logical?  One of my friends had had an accident in the gym six years ago. He still suffers some back pain. He has joined the gym again. The other day while we were talking, he complained that because of that pain he was not able to work out as hard as [...]

What makes us wait?  I just wondered, what kind of blog post would I write if I knew I was to die in 5 days? Will I write about politics? Or will I be able to write about Cricket? Will I write about some dilemmas? Or will anything at all? Will not my each word [...]

Memories Last night, I got a call from my parents. It was a bit surprising, as they normally call on Sundays or Saturdays. Today, I was talking to my sister and she told me something that I made me realise something: Yesterday was the marriage anniversary of my parents! I called up my mother and told [...]

Days Today is International Women’s Day. To mark the occasion, here are some very relevant writings by some of my favourite writers on Rediff Ilanders, (not in any particular order):  The woman in your life, Ideal Indian Woman, The Second Sex, BETIYAN, BETI, Woman,

Open Letters Dear Airtel,  Though our friendship doesn’t need this kind of letter, I thought to return the gesture of writing back to you. After all our friendship of six years, I haven’t written to you once.  I really feel you are my best friend. You reach out to me even when no one else is [...]

Memories To some of you, it won’t matter when the child makes his childish demands and is adamant. But it matters a lot for the child! Some of you may never take your child seriously, forgetting that the child himself/herself may very well take him/herself very seriously! Read this… from the time I was… as it [...]

In my previous post, I wrote about how “I believe every man has been a male-chauvinist at some stage of his life; and afterwards he becomes wise”.  I described how I headed the rebellion against the Mars’ dominance in our school and how the one-girl-army made my task difficult. Actually, I had written a complete story, [...]