Author: akshay

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…

All those companies out there, they are brands. Google, Pepsi, Reliance, Nokia, Vodafone, Adidas, LG, Samsung, Hyundai… Think of any one of them, without their name. Think of Adidas selling their sports wears without their logo on it. How about a new Google service which does not begin with “Google”? Every one of those companies,…

Sometimes messing up life can be more delighting than going through the routine systematically. How? When you do something systematically: You do it You go home You talk with people, but you are not emotionally associating with people. When you mess up: You try to do something You mess up You try your best to…

Today evening I was thinking:  ‘Life is pointless, where am I leading to, what should I do next‘ I was feeling enervated. I knew I was not in a good mood at all. I tried finding some motivational quotes in the world wide web. But all those awesome quotes suddenly felt like mere words for…