Reflections

5. Living in The Moment
Science and humanities are poles apart, well, that’s what we’re told the day we’re supposed to select our higher education stream. But it is not always right. A few years back the writ...

4. Love Often Returns in Another Way
At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, was walking through a park one day in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favorite doll. She and Ka...

3. Never Go with Your Heart
Emotions get the best of everyone sometimes. Most of the times our feelings are spontaneous and involuntary. That usually means they happen automatically and reflexively, like a knee-jerk r...

2. Father, Dear Father
In a letter V.S. Naipaul’s father writes him not to give in to his depression and exhorts him to be sincere in his writing. “What do you think literature boils down to?” he asks, “To writing from the...

1. In the Backdrop of World War III
When Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei thundered, “We will make the ZIONISTS regret this crime of attacking the Iranian consulate in Syria and other crimes like this, by God's power and strength,” he ina...