The night was dark and the soul felt tired, Imprisoned in my being, seldom admired… The knees felt weak and the eyes had tears, This worn out heart was full of fears… The breathing was heavy and the hair stood on their end, The spirit was lonely with none to defend… I had tripped...

Guddu, a name that just doesn’t escape my mind,not because of any outstanding deed of his but for just for this one reason. Before I spill out the reason, I would like to shed some light on his identity. Guddu aged around 55 years is/was working with my brother as an assistant to him, in a...

The following is based on an actual experiment conducted in the U.K. . Put eight monkeys in a room. In the middle of the room is a  ladder, leading to a bunch of bananas hanging from a hook on the  ceiling. Each time a monkey tries to climb the ladder, all the monkeys  are sprayed with ice...

In the recent past two news items in one of the national dailies brought in a few queries in my mind….. In one of the news items, a professor father of an IAS officer said that he knew the day his daughter was born that she would become an IAS and nothing else because he wanted her to get...