Author: akshay

Read The Hindu : States / Tamil Nadu : Woman gifts daughter sight on Women’s Day It’s so very easy to make use of your body after your death. And it may be via donation that you did the greatest deed of kindness in your whole ‘life’. You can call 1919 (toll free, India) to…

We’ve all had it. Moments of slump, when the whole world seems to be crash landing on you. May be on the eve of an examination. May be while preparing for a very important meeting. Times when you feel let down. Everyone has those moments of desperation. And a lot of losers give up at…

Whatever you read, whatever you hear, whatever you think, ask yourself: Could the opposite be true? That’s all there is to critical thinking.

What makes girls today wish they were born as boys? Why has every Women’s Day article I read today focused on the injustice towards women and not on their achievements? Why do they even have to build a site explaining women’s rights in Islam? Why did I think of founding the sisbro organization (a volunteer…

This is with reference to the claims by the 8-10 middle aged women who wanted a contribution from me towards the ‘Aanandotsavam’ program to be held by Shri (another Shri?) Ravi Shankar at Kannur on February 15th, 2011. (Since the whole Art of Living foundation claims to enlighten people and make them grow internally, which…

What do you do when you start failing to reach your goals? Set the goals low? No way. Set the preparation higher. And I’ve got to prepare.

[This is an email response to this article, which I thought I should publish] Hi sir, I’m 17, in twelfth standard. My girlfriend – who’s not exactly my girlfriend because she’s always responded negatively to my “I love you”s – liked your article in The Hindu (Generation Y: where is it headed for?, Nov 13,…

Answer all questions honestly in the next 24 hours. And see if that brings any change in your life. Gandhiji was not superhuman. Then how did he lead India to independence? Because he used a weapon which was unbeatable. And we all have that weapon. Only that we have not tried to use it.

I was first taught about sex neither by my parents nor by my teachers. The first time I really learned how babies are made was when I saw a porn movie when I was 14. Yeah, even before the advent of Internet. And till today my parents haven’t talked to me directly about sex either.…

There’s been a very clever e-mail running around in Indian inboxes for many years. It cleverly exploits multiplication into making people think that MPs are a huge waste of national resources. The mail first is this: Govt. Concessions for a Member of Parliament (MP) Monthly Salary : 12,000 Expense for Constitution per month : 10,000…