The World Bridge Championships is currently on in Chennai, and I suggest that you drop in this weekend if you are looking for some sporty good fun for around 4 to 5 minutes after which you will mostly fall asleep. Let us face it, quite unlike, say, cricket or football, bridge can never be a mass spectator sport. And that… Read more →
Fully-realised sages and philosophers, after years and years of intense meditation at high mountains, have revealed to us that money is not everything in life. But those living in hilly forests amidst wild animals, which don’t understand money, couldn’t be expected to say anything else. On the other hand, if you ask thinkers and saints, who dwell amidst us in… Read more →
We think the time has come for us to tackle, head on, the searing Sartrean existential crisis staring at humanity today, the moral quandary gripping our entire civilization like never before, the one that both technologists and philosophers agree has no real right answers, a query so deep and desperate that even the Vedas don’t point to any possible solution:… Read more →
Today’s journalism lesson is how to write crime reports in newspaper: Right off the bat, it should be said that crime reports in news publications are extremely important in that they are actually read. Whereas no one has ever managed to — this includes the journalists concerned too — go beyond the second para of reports on inflation or industrial… Read more →
I don’t know about you, but whenever I read news items that report that such and such billionaire had his entire wealth scraped down by, say, 14% due to the crash in the stock market, as a sensible and sensitive bloke, I instantly become sad that the bugger was worth so much in the first place. But being the gentleman… Read more →
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