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Our ability to see and experience the world through our eyes, vision, is a precious gift which we cannot take for granted. Our eyes open up as windows to the wonders of the world. The system of our eyes is complex and exquisite. When light falls on an object it reflects, the reflection passes through…

The southern Japanese island of Okinawa is known as the place which has the highest concentration of centenarians (people who live over 100 years) in the world. Many studies have been done on the longevity of people in Okinawa. The Spanish author and scientist Hector Garcia, who has researched this has written a popular book…

I still remember a day I was in school. I had a headache because my house was being painted the previous day and I can’t tolerate the smell of paint. It was before lunch break and the teacher asked us what is your ambition, who do you want to become in life. My friends had…

We experience the world through our senses, our capacity to see, hear, touch, taste, and smell. Each of our sensory organs has a broad spectrum of receptivity. There is a Zen practice in which you pay attention to your environment by concentrating on very minute things with your senses, and it’s a beautiful experience of…

The book “Sapiens” written by Yuval Noah Harari is very popular but only recently did I get a chance to go through it. It is an account of our species and the journey of 300,000 years of evolution on this planet, from the rise of our ancient ancestors, to our current place in this modern…

A couple of years back, I happened to meet a sculptor in Bangalore and spent quite a long time with him. Every creation has its own way of execution. I always wondered how a sculpture is made by a sculptor. I asked him, “How to do you do it?” He told me that when he…

I am a very lazy person, especially lazy about waking up early in the morning unless there is something very important to do. A few months back I met my grandmother. I asked her how she manages her exemplary lifestyle because she wakes up by 4-4:30 in the morning, immediately has a bath and only…

During my last visit to the United States, I happened to stay at an Airbnb in Oakland, California. At one point during my stay, I was approached by a person who looked exactly like Morgan Freeman who asked me if I was from India. I said, yes, I was, and he was quite excited about…

Today, I received the Swami Vivekananda Yuva Prathibha Award for entrepreneurship from Sri E.P Jayarajan Honourable Minister for Industries, Sports & Youth Affairs. It’s an award instituted by the Kerala State Youth Welfare Board, of Department of Youth Affairs, Government of Kerala, for young leaders who excel in different fields like Arts, Literature, Sports, Science,…

This happened while I was in college, I studied in a college in Tamil Nadu in a remote village called Kalayarkoil near Madurai. I had to stay back after all my friends had left since I had failed in a paper and needed to retake the exam. It was a paper called English Communication. In…