Down Memory Lane With The Reading HabitEnid BlytonMy earliest memories of reading a novel go back to the time when I was in my fifth grade. I had just moved to a new school and the children there were avid...
Jai's Jottings
Daughter, Violin
The One Thing I Do Every Day
The One Thing I Do Every DayWhen I try to think of something I do everyday, several things spring to the mind immediately. There are of course the minor things that come to the mind at once like brushing my...
Health and Nutrition
My Seventeen Year Sojourn With Smoking
My Seventeen Year Sojourn With SmokingIt all started as a fad. I was one of those straight as an arrow young men who considered smoking a taboo as is customary in all orthodox south Indian families. My parents did not...
Miscellaneous
History: The Much Condemned Subject
History: The Much Condemned SubjectI once came across an article written by a professor of Mathematics who argued passionately that History is a useless subject. His main argument was that there is no use in wasting time studying things that...
Miscellaneous
Television Thirty-Five Years Back
Television When I Was A KidThere was a time when the common television set was not as ubiquitous as it is now. Thirty five years back, it was considered a status symbol in middle class families to have a television set or...
Miscellaneous
Train Travel Thirty-Five Years Back
Train Travel When I Was A KidI wonder whether the younger generation is aware of what it was like to travel by trains in India thirty-five to forty years back. What it was like not to have instant ticket booking...
Miscellaneous
The Decline Of The Printed Word
The Decline Of The Printed WordIn this modern age when a tech savvy populace has taken up wholesomely to the internet and the television set, newspapers have definitely taken a back seat. Be that as it may I firmly believe...
Poem
Wonder How The Universe Was Created
Theme - How the universe was created.Mysteries of the UniverseOn a dark starry moonlit night,when I look at the stars in the twilight,twinkling wondrously from infinite height,shining like beautiful little pin-points of light.The shining moon and the starry Venus,and the...
Poem
For The Terminally Ill
Theme - Praising the undying spirit of a terminally ill patient.Spare a thought for the terminally illSpare a thought! Spare a thought!For those of us who have'nt got a lot,of days and nights left to live,but who still have a lot...
Poem
On Human Emotions
Theme - Describing human emotions.On Human EmotionsAnger, thy name is like a curse,you cause such profound distress,causing grievance and spreading dislike,in both men and women alike. Sorrow, you fill the heart with agony,making the soul cry in disharmony,causing men and women...
