Author: akshay

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…

I won’t wish you a happy Independence Day this year. Not just this year. Henceforth. Because unless I begin doing something for my country, I simply do not deserve to wish you. I was notified of this day coming. By the facebook event which asked me to show my love for my country by setting…

Necessity is the mother of invention. Emotion is the mother of creation. And experience, it’s father. – Because experiences make people emotional. You fall in love, you make a tough decision, you break up, you get a gift, you fall sick (no you’d be sick, then), you watch a touching movie, you catch up with…

I hate it when my brother switches on the television when I am reading. Reading textbooks is so boring and when there’s that funny little scene of the all-time-best-movie on the idiot box there is no question where your mind is. It’s so easy to get distracted when you’re doing something boring (even if it’s…

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You could plan every day in advance. You could plan your life in advance. But most of the fun in life comes unplanned. Even a planned prank works out funny because the person being tricked wasn’t prepared (hadn’t planned). You watch Federer because though you and I know he’ll be showing his class, even God…