It’s Vasant Panchami today, and as per the Indian Calendar we are formally announcing the arrival of spring as the winter draws to a close. As Shelly said, “When winter comes can Spring be far behind”, so here it is. Spring brings with it the fragrance of love and joie-de-vivre, mother nature adorns herself with mustard […]
How I wish wisdom teeth actually imparted some wisdom in the homo sapiens, because merely calling it by this name doesn’t change your basic nature and intelligence. If it was so, we would be rid of all the morons that we come across in our daily lives and world would be a much saner place. But
L&T Chairperson Mr Subrahmanyan is a wise man and speaks out of experience, so friends don’t just listen to his sane advice but take it as a gospel, because the sooner you do that you will have attained nirvana as far as marital bliss goes at least.The mistress of the house is obviously not to
HAPPY NEW YEAR “Ring out the old ring in the new” so said Alfred Tennyson in his immortal “In Memoriam”. There was a time when New Year was eagerly awaited, as fresh beginnings could be made, saying adios to the year that just went by. Apart from the dancing and merry making on the New
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Shoelaces or shoestrings as the American would like to call them, seemingly innocuous accessories, can be quite a nuisance or a botheration for some of us. I am sure you have heard of the phrase tie yourself up in knots, well the origin can be traced back to someone who ended up falling on his
Gukesh literally means one who has black hair, no wonder he was not afraid of facing the reigning champion with black pieces in the decider with the challenger and the champion locked with 6.5 points each after 13 gruelling rounds of chess. Anyone who has a even a little knowledge of chess knows that white
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“I beg your pardon”, is this what the prodigal son said to the President , who heard him, despite his increasingly impaired hearing and sure enough like a good Christian, he forgave him. After all it was Christ who implored upon the Lord “To forgive as they know not what they have done” and as
Trump(ets) are back with a bang. After four years in oblivion, this piece of instrument ridiculed for its non stop cacophony, is once again music to the ears of the Americans, the song being played is “Roses are red and Violets are blue, Don is red and Kamla is blue”. The mood is blue in the
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In the Armed Forces, the senior hierarchy normally exhorts the youngsters to indulge in “Out of the box thinking”. The irony of this sermon is that most of them themselves have been treading the beaten path, as that is safe and secure. Any deviations and you are treading in a dangerous zone, where a failure
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Today is Infantry Day, now isn’t that funny? Why do I find it funny or should I say ironic, well, isn’t everyday of the year the Infantarian’s day! Infantry, the Queen of the battle, is at work, 24 x 7 for 365 days without a break, be it war, peace or what we in the
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