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I was travelling from Kochi to my home town Calicut. While going through Thrissur district to Malappuram I happened to take the route through Akkikavu which is a less crowded shortcut. It’s a beautiful route with paddy fields and greenery. On that particular day I was quite thirsty and stopped my car near a lonely…

This happened during the last semester of Engineering while I was in college. I went to meet my friend who lived near me and saw that he was well dressed, executive style, groomed well and sitting near his table in his room. His mobile phone was on the table and he was watching the phone…

In this world of, lots of social media interferences, people, especially youngsters, experience different sorts of sleeping disorders.I have found that people find many ways to bypass it. Some people do hard, physical activities to make their body tired and get sleep, some people use substances or alcohol, some use medicines. Many people have many…

This happened during the Mahakumbh Mela of 2013 at Prayag, Allahabad, which is the largest spiritual gathering in the world. On that day, almost 30 million people gather in about an 8-kilometer-square area, crowded with military personnel, and sages – from subtle mystics to terrifying Aghoris…a collection of the Indian spiritual diaspora. By the time…

Our choices are mostly unknowingly dictated by the socio-economic environment we live in. This world demands and imposes a great sense of perfection, symmetry, and proportions that apply to almost everything from our belongings to our physique. The sense of perfection has become the new scale of aesthetics in the modern world. Recently I happened…

This evening I was having a discussion with a friend of mine who is an entrepreneur in the hospital and healthcare sector. We were chit-chatting and discussing many scenarios and he asked me how our business is doing. I told him it was quite uncertain, especially the first and second quarter of this financial year…

This is the story of Alexander. When he was young, he came to know about a famous palm reader who had come to town, someone who could foresee things precisely. Alexander met that person and showed him his right hand. The palm reader asked Alexander, “Boy, what do you want in life , what do…

We read and see a lot of things about fitness, how to enhance the physical body but people are less concerned about their mental fitness or, specifically, the enhancement of the brain capacity and its performance. I came across something many years back and I try to do that whenever I am free and it’s…

Last week a friend of mine called me when he had a difference of opinion with another person and that person started sharing something about him on social media and started cyberbullying my friend on social media. My friend asked me if he should do the same back because he knew about certain vulnerable points…

I have a watch that I have kept with me for the last 25 years. A watch with a green strap and a red digital kind of dial. This watch is special, it shows only one time all the time — 10:10. It is a toy watch that my father bought for me when I…