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 …
This book tells the story of obsession, determination and the chase to ultimate glory. The story is presented against the backdrop of mathematical research and portrays the life of a mathematician, who dedicates his whole life to finding the solution of what is one of the most famous unsolved mathematical questions. But this book is …
My kitchen has arrived. After long last and several weeks of moving into our new apartment, my precious – my new kitchen – has been assembled. This may sound strange to you, but rented houses in Düsseldorf (and in many other parts of Germany) don’t come with a kitchen – so no sink, no shelves, …
What sex is your brain? After several years in engineering and computer science schools and in a career as a Risk Analyst, I was beginning to wonder if my brain had decided to go for a sex change. I had tried to alleviate my fears by taking whatever free brain identity tests I could lay …
We enjoy art. We try to produce art. We collect art. We admire those who create art. What is it that makes us so drawn to art? Art welcomes us a to new realm full of new ideas, new concepts, new ideologies, new possibilities. We suddenly find ourselves in the inner world of a fellow …
Numerous reviews have been written about Mark Haddons’s award-winning book ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time’. Yet, I was so moved after reading this elegant and poignant tale of a 15-year old’s detective story, that I feel compelled to pen a few words. The book presents the view of the world …