Month: December 2017
Wishing everyone a prosperous and happy new year 2018 in advance..
Wishing everyone a prosperous and happy new year 2018… The new year is here yet again and the first thing I would like to do is to wish all my readers a happy, prosperous and wonderful year ahead. May the coming year prove to be wonderful for people all around the globe and may it bring […]
The poems I wrote this year…
My Poems Of 2017 Here I am, sitting with my laptop on a Friday night at 10.30 PM with three full days stretching ahead of me and nothing to do. I am struggling to think of a topic on which I can write quickly for I have had a rather hectic day in the office. […]
The Books I Read In 2017 #Books2017
The Books I Read In 2017 #Books2017 Reading has been my passion since the time I was a kid in knickerbockers. Every year I read at least a minimum of 40 books. When I saw the IndiSpire topic of this week I immediately visited the Goodreads site to take stock of the number of books I had […]
Wishing One And All A Wonderful, Merry And Happy Christmas And A Prosperous New Year…
Wishing One And All A Wonderful, Merry And Happy Christmas And A Prosperous New Year I generally try not to begin posts on my blog on the day of a festival on a negative note. But I am making an exception today because I really feel I need to make a point about something that […]
Should the death penalty be abolished?
Should the death penalty be abolished? There has been only one instance in my 51 years on this planet when I have been the victim of a crime. It happened during the time I was travelling from New Delhi to Bengaluru 27 years back. I was 23 then and a suitcase full of valuables I […]
Obsessive Nationalism: Is It Healthy?
Obsessive Nationalism: Is It Healthy? A couple of years ago the supreme court of India made it compulsory for all cinema halls to play the national anthem at the beginning of each show and also decreed that the audience has to stand up respectfully when it is played. This move came under severe criticism […]
Free Thinking And Religion…
Free Thinking And Religion… I am not a very religious person by nature but a discussion I had with a colleague in office recently compels me to write this article. I was born in a Hindu Brahmin family and my father and mother are very conservative people and tried their level best to instill the same conservative […]
Criminal tendencies in children…
Criminal tendencies in children… Many people might think it inappropriate to begin an article on such a serious topic with a stanza of poetry but that is precisely what I am going to do. I am doing it because the poetic piece I am about to present relates to a horrific crime. It is not […]
An unconventional definition of spirituality…
An unconventional definition of spirituality Just like there are two sides to a coin, there are two sides to every human being: the material and the spiritual. Mother nature makes our material side self evident to us. We are dependent on matter to sustain our lives in this planet. We need energy to live which […]
Oh, My Child Hates Temples…
Oh, My Child Hates Temples I have come across so many parents bemoaning the fact that their children dislike visiting places of worship. It is often taken to be a sign of moral decrepitude if a child openly refuses to enter a temple or a church. Even among adults the refusal to visit temples or […]
