In the last chapter, I spoke about how smile can set everything straight, but it was not always right. For instance, imagine smiling after a slap in the face, then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day. It is easier said than done. During this phase of my life, I tried to be as [...]
I used to fear everyone who is elder to me or those who are dominant, I used to see some part of my father in them. I used to look at everything around me in a negative way, I always had the feeling that the whole nature was designed to ruin my life and spoil [...]
A positive title for a change . Even in Chennai and with my parents life seemed good for a while as I was put in a new school (New Prince) and significantly in a school where my mother did not work, so at the end of the day I alone, became responsible for the things [...]
Recently in an Orkut community I came across a thread raising doubt about Manu Needhi Cholan’s act on whether it is a fiction or truth. The intention of the person who raised this query is not to be critical or sarcastic, so I am putting this efforts to try and answer the question. First of [...]
There are no modules in life for beginners: right away we will always be asked to deal with what is most difficult. Over a period of time, we get accustomed to the vagaries of life and over a period of time, learn to live with it (might be with a grudge). I never had any [...]
“The young South African has shown he has the right stuff to take over from Ponting when the time comes.” – Ian Chappel. “Ricky Ponting has long been considered the master of the willow wielders. He attained this lofty status even with the presence of Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara, both of whom vied for [...]
This one was a very old article of mine, I wrote this just after the 2007 world cup and when Ian Chappel declared that Sachin is no more a good player and he should hang his boots, In an article for cricinfo titled. “Mirror Mirror Answer me.” The following article was my reply to him. [...]
There are numerous records created by sachin, and today when he has most of the records, what he is doing is just distancing himself form his nearest rival by a huge margin. Saying this, let us see some of the known records of sachin and quite a few unknown records of him. In Odis Highest [...]
Money, what a beautiful thing? Ugly as well. Ugly??? I got to be kidding. No. It is not just Ugly, but it is the mother of all evils. I may sound philosophical. What good it is being philosophical if there is no rationale behind your words? My view is completely rational as well. How? The [...]
Shiva, to me he is my father, mentor, guru and friend. It has been a fashion lately among people to criticize religions and Hindu deities in India. So am I going to write anything against them? Tell them Hinduism is better than any other religion and list out the reasons? Nopes, I have much better [...]
Unlike many others, life had very few happiness in store for me during my childhood days, my grand mother’s affection, dreams of my fantasy land while being awake and finally Sachin (not just his batting). For the past 16 years he has been a part of my life. There is a psychological concept called as [...]
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