I just came back home late today( I am not saying late to justify my excuse of coming home late but to say that it wasn’t really that bad in comparison to its consequences). The first thing that came my way was a tight one across my face before I could even realise how late I was.The second thing that came my way was a series of dialogues to tell me that I should be really guilt conscious of the crime I had...

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 daily newspaper at Allahabad. He is innocent, hard working, good natured and always ready to help anyone. He is not married and is living with his...

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 water, which makes them miserable. Soon enough, whenever a monkey attempts to climb the ladder, all of the other monkeys, not  wanting to be sprayed,...

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 married to an IAS ! He further said , since as a professor he can not manage the amount of money that would be needed to get her married to an IAS...