Author: akshay

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…

Aimee Mullins was born with fibular hemimelia (missing fibula bones) and, as a result, had both of her legs amputated below the knee when she was a year old. 33 years later, today, she is an athlete, actress, and fashion model best known for her collegiate-level athletic accomplishment. People around the world love her not…

I hate writing school work for reasons you must have guessed (ya, who writes when we can type). But should I get through school, I must get through those too. So how do I scrape through? I multitask. For, this post is being written along with my assignments. I write one sentence here. I write…

I come to concede Tharoor, not to praise him; The evil that ministers do lives after their term, The good is oft interred with their files, So let it be with Tharoor … The noble Modi Hath told you Tharoor was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Tharoor…

Don’t argue that I’m wrong, because I’m dead sure about this: All the fuss that people make, all the hassles, all the quarrels are because they do not talk. In other words, there is no trouble in human world that cannot be solved by talking. You disagree with X. You keep mum. X thinks you…

This thought descends directly from the old saying “Think before you talk”. My little brother once threw a key towards me. He threw it a bit steep and I could not catch it. I immediately felt like telling him ‘You should have thrown it flat, so that it will cross me no matter how slow…

The analogy is that our body is the hardware, and our mind or soul is the operating system. When you are exercising you are upgrading your hardware. When you are learning a new language you are installing a new software. But mind you, you are stuck with the same old operating system. You might be…

I like to travel. Because whenever I go outside my home, I see people. The old man sitting right next to me in the bus, the man who is selling oranges, the woman waiting anxiously in the bus shelter, the kid talking to his friend, the youth resting his eye on every one coming his…