I love it when you hold my hand with your tiny fingers and then grip it tightly and fall asleep… I love it when you open your mouth so that I can feed you and then spill half of it out, back onto my palm… I love it when you try to stand by yourself, …
It’s that time of the year when people start to wind down, commencing with Christmas and ending in the New Year. A time to spend with family, friends, loved ones and in this year, Omicron. As we stare at rising cases in the UAE and elsewhere, it starts to get irritating. When will all this …
Had a team meeting today, and among other things, came to know that the son of one of my colleagues has been attending nursery…online. Pray tell me, how does one get a 3-year old kid to take online classes?? It seems that they show him PowerPoints of A for Apple, B for Bat and the …
I see him picking up an empty can, carefully, trying to coordinate his limbs, adjusting his grip, pausing, slipping, until he gets it upright, and reaches for the smaller can to slowly lower it into the other, he misses twice, but does not relent nor does he let me do it for him, instead, he …
As he crawls slowly towards you, and then faster, Don’t you crawl towards him too? As he tries to stand, fumbles and reaches out to you to stop from falling… Don’t you reach out to him too? As he takes his first steps, and stumbles a little, Don’t you stumble a bit too? And as …
Ever since I turned vegetarian, somehow it is assumed that paneer is the pinnacle of my ordering power at any Indian restaurant. “Oh, you don’t eat meat? No issues, paneer hai na!” Arre, I don’t want to eat paneer. There are many other dishes that whet my appetite, and paneer is not one of them. …
To desecrate is shameful, but is lynching justified? What God or greater power can condone such behavior? Is faith driven by what signifies the greater truth, or the Greater Truth itself? How does man come to such emotional nadirs, when taking the life of another is seen as justifiable in the name of faith? Surely …
When you are young, the thrill of ambition drives you when you grow older, the thrill of passion drives you and when yet older, the thrill of achievement drives you… The question is – however old you are right now ,what drives you as a person? What makes you get up every morning with a …
बन्धुउद्धरेदात्मनात्मानं नात्मानमवसादयेत् ।आत्मैव ह्यात्मनो बन्धुरात्मैव रिपुरात्मन: ॥ ५ ॥ बन्धुरात्मात्मनस्तस्य येनात्मैवात्मना जित: ।अनात्मनस्तु शत्रुत्वे वर्तेतात्मैव शत्रुवत् ॥ ६ ॥ uddhared ātmanātmānaṁnātmānam avasādayetātmaiva hy ātmano bandhurātmaiva ripur ātmanaḥ bandhur ātmātmanas tasyayenātmaivātmanā jitaḥanātmanas tu śatrutvevartetātmaiva śatru-vat One must deliver himself with the help of his mind, and not degrade himself. The mind is the friend of the …
It was written 600 years ago. It’s 234 pages long. It’s been studied by cryptographers and codebreakers alike. And yet, we still have no idea what any of it means. This is the Voynich manuscript. The Voynich manuscript has been studied by many professional and amateur cryptographers, including American and British codebreakers from both World War I and World War II. …
