It is the Christmas eve. All are busy celebrating. It is 2023 years since the birth of Christ. The world IS literally shutdown for these celebrations. A thought enters my mind – what happens if we are told that Jesus Christ and the Allah are the 11th and 12th incarnations of Lord Vishnu, paving a […]
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GREAT WIDE BEAUTIFUL WONDERFUL WORLD
The following poem is taken from “THE ARCHWAY READER – ENGLISH READER FOR CLASS TEN”. This text book was prepared by BERNARD COFFEY, who has a visiting professor of English, Regional Institute of English South India, Bangalore. This text book was published by the Government of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, first published in 1977 and priced: […]
Chacha Nehru – Happy Children’s Day
14th November is Chacha Nehru’s Birthday. It used to be called as the Children’s Day. He was a statesman par-excellence. On any given day, it is worth reading the books authored by him. These books hold good for all generations – if you think that Generation Z or Generation Alpha are excluded then you are […]
DARK WEB
Dark Web is the large part of internet. It cannot be accessed by conventional search engines. It is correctly said that search engines crawl and index less than 1% of all the content that can be accessed over the internet. The internet is often compared to an ice berg. There are very few people who […]
RELATIVE AND BRIEF UNDERSTANDING OF TIME
I was thinking of time. It is the same time you can objectively see in your watch. A mechanical instrument called watch became our understanding of time! The thought that had entered in my mind in my deepest possible sleep was – whether the time subjective or objective concept? Please note: I am not saying […]
It’s Your Time!
It’s Your Time – Every night we go to bed without any assurance of being alive next morning. Yet we set the alarm clock to wake up. We write of ‘things to do tomorrow’. What do we call this? Hope? Or Hoping against hope? If you had $86,400 in your bank account and someone stole […]
LAXMINARAYAN
We have seen many pictures of Lord Vishnu and Goddess Laxmi – or Laxminarayan at various places- at home, temples, streets, shops – to name a few. Lord Vishnu otherwise also known as the Narayan is the most powerful God of the Hindus. According to Hindu Mythology Lord Vishnu is the Sustainer of the Universe. […]
Whomsoever Parvathi
Everything begins with fun, joy and especially when we are not at prepared! A week ago, when Parvathi said: “Your face looks like the ‘whomsoever’ in the ‘whomsoever it may concern’”. I did not understand it in the first instance as to what she meant. When I understood, a smile on my face. I am […]
Degrading Women – Raksha Bandhan
Please leave emotions a side about the brother-sister loving relation, sacred thread / Rakhee etc., for a moment to read this: In the olden days women were not individuals, but property, if they were not killed at birth. They were bought & sold in those days. They were stolen, kidnapped, raped and even killed! No […]
Agatha Christie or Mallowan?
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born on 15th September 1890. She died on 12th January 1976. She began writing at the age of 18. She wrote: a) 78 Crime Novels b) 20 Plays c) 4 Non-fiction Books d) 150 Short Stories and e) 6 Romantic novels under the name Mary West Mascot. Agatha was married […]
