A picture may be worth a thousand words, but numbers tell a thousand stories. Thanks to the number of people who get dooced, this post will be intentionally vague. And I will reflect on a slightly off tangent, yet related topic – the joy I find in numbers. There are various reasons why humans have …
The immortal words of Kahlil Gibran: They say to me, “A bird in the hand is worth ten in the bush.”But I say, “A bird and a feather in the bush is worth more than ten birds in the hand.”Your seeking after that feather is life with winged feet; nay, it is life itself.
Lets do our best, be it big or smallLet there be no poor, once and for all. My German teacher is back from his holiday in Peru. Eager to show off what I had learned in his absence, I excitedly quipped: “Wie war Ihre Urlaub?”. The man was obviously shaken by his trip, because what …
Overheard: “Smile. People will wonder what you are smiling at.” Now thats a good reason to smile.
There are certain things that most people take for granted that I have to think for a moment. Like for example, the floor that I need to go to – do I count the ground floor as 1 or 0? I rem when I was a kid, we used to count ground as 0, and …
One of things about living in a country where you cant get English books is that you cant make impulse buys on books. I read about them and order them via my personal book delivery service. I get my books every weekend from Amsterdam. This weekend, I had a surprise in store, “Parallel Worlds” by …
NRIs moving back to India is not the solution to India’s problems and let this not be the scapegoat that everyone turns to when they need one. I was doing my friendly rounds around the blogsphere when I came across this article titled “Des, Pardes: NRIs Can Have Best of Both Worlds“. It is interesting …
CNN News today featured a ‘Smile Researcher’. Guess what the value of a child’s smile is: 16,000£! Good for the babies in America – thanks to the slide in US$, the dollar value of their smiles are going up!
Are we conditioned to believe that if you know something about everything, you probably know nothing about anything? Is true versatility a thing of the past? What do you want to be when you grow up is a question that we might have been asked or have asked ourselves when we were growing up. Some …
All the answers you seek are within you. There are limitations to what human beings can do, but there are no limitations to what we can achieve through the strength of our minds. What makes us different from the rest of the living forms is our intellectual prowess. The answers to the deepest questions of …