Share By Chandeep Arora: “This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness” – Dalai Lama Call him Ram or call him Allah, it makes no difference. Erect a temple on every corner or hang [...]
Share By Irfan Mohamed: India has always been a hot bed for issues. It is super shiny on one side and super dull on the other. It manages to capture the world’s glance in varied aspects. But, visionaries have been watching it grow under the hands of huge names. And they have been guessing, for [...]
Share By Ankur Kumar: Well before I start my sincere attempt to describe about Bengaluru or preferably Bangalore, it would be deemed correct mentioning that I mostly refer to youth in Bangalore when I say the word ‘Bangalorean’. Take a walk along a footpath (though they aren’t well built here) in the morning and you [...]
Share By Kunal Anand: What are the chances that someone reading this article hasn’t heard and laughed on at least one of the zillions of Santa Banta jokes doing rounds in SMSes and Internet? The chances are nil. It’s practically impossible to miss on India’s favourite “jokers”. Every rib tickling slapstick about how dumb a [...]
Share By Priyanka Pani: Utopia has meant different things to me at different times, over the years. You would identify with me on this one. To start with, a toddler would list being in a cocoon in its parents’ arms as its favorite place on earth. Move a little up the evolutionary chart and you [...]
Share By Trishla Gupta: 28th May 2007, I learned one of the most invaluable lessons of life. However, before telling you what that is, I must give you a brief backdrop of my school years at Mater Dei. At Mater Dei, Trishla Gupta was a force to reckon with, especially where academics were concerned. I [...]
Share By Shivani Ghildiyal: The contrary approaches of a minister and a bureaucrat are best captured in their answers to a poser. “If it is a choice between taking a risk that might boomerang, but might really help your state’s development, versus just following the checklist of rules and procedures, what would you do?” A mid-career bureaucrat [...]
Share By Ruchika Joshi: There’s something about that first shower that breaks the dry summer spell. There’s no telling where you will be or what you will be doing in the middle of when it happens, when those blessed first drops hit the brown earth, trickle down a car window or find their way on [...]
Share Parvathy Ramaswamy: Move over those Yamahas, Suzukis and other bikes, the dream vroom machine has finally arrived. Yes, you got it right, Harley Davidson (HD) is in India and now all those people who once dreamed of owning this exotic machine can actually experience it. It has entered India with its five motorcycle families [...]
Share Rohan Gupta: A fact which is constantly losing its significance from national consciousness, if it has not lost it already, is that India, until 1950, much like the USA and the UK, also had a jury system which was abolished by the then national government led by PM Jawaharlal Nehru after the case of [...]