Month: January 2018
Photo-op With The Winner Of A Beauty Pageant At An Eighth Floor Balcony
Photo-op With The Winner Of A Beauty Pageant At An Eighth Floor Balcony Miss Universe, you are looking the wrong way. Please turn around. That is right, a bit more please. Yes, that is right, just a bit more to the right please. Just a little bit more and we are there. Oh […]
A Dream, A Fantasy, Flying Into The Unknown…
A Dream, A Fantasy, Flying Into The Unknown I am once again a youth in my teens, dreaming of flying high up into the clouds, I think to myself, maybe if I jump high up into the air, I won’t come back crashing down to the ground. I put thoughts into action and take […]
Get To Know The Man Who Coaches Poor Children – #WATWB
Get To Know The Man Who Coaches Poor Children – #WATWB Thirty-four years back, in 1984, I cleared the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination with a rather low rank of 1782. Those days only two thousand candidates where selected in IIT-JEE unlike the 10,000 who get selected nowadays. There were only five IITs […]
My Ideas On God And Atheism
My Ideas On God And Atheism I am writing this post knowing quiet well that the people who read it may end up believing that I am some kind of a crank who is wandering a bit in his mind due to old age. I am not all that old, you know. I am just […]
For Success In Life Should We Use The Head Or The Heart?
For Success In Life Should We Use The Head Or The Heart? I am impelled to write this article because of an exchange I had with my little one a few days back. I was lying down on my bed and reading a book when she came up to my side and snatched away my […]
A Tribute To A Budding Cricketer And Mathematician
A Tribute To A Budding Cricketer And Mathematician He is a sweet and cute little boy, who wields the cricket bat like a toy, when he bowls his short pitched beamers, the batsman has to duck to avoid coming a creamer. He has any number of bowling tricks up his sleeve, it is magic with […]
My First Effort At Photography
My First Effort At Photography I have never tried my hand at photography. But today morning I was standing in the balcony of the 8th floor apartment where I live and was watching the work going on at the construction site of the new building which is coming up just behind my apartment. It suddenly […]
To My Darling Wife With Love
To My Darling Wife With Love Oh my sweet, I still remember that wonderful day, I set eyes on your lovely face for the first time in my life, I took one look at you and knew not what to say, but one thing I knew was I wanted you to be my wife. In […]
Dream Right Up To The End…
Dream Right Up To The End I was a small child of eight, and I was fascinated by engine drivers, I dreamed of being one when I grew up, driving the engine billowing black smoke, chugging along and pulling the bogeys. Five years later I was a young lad of thirteen, this time I was […]
Euthanasia, Is it justified?
Euthanasia, Is it justified? The reason I am writing this article is because of a discussion I had in office with a very close personal friend and colleague of mine. We were working late a few days back and we stepped out for a cup of coffee in the evening. My friend’s mother was in […]