What do you do when you walk into a room and see your sister with her step-cousin, Vikram? With her sitting on the edge of a bed, her dress dropped to her waist, the bra lying on the floor? And he standing over her, his shirt unbuttoned, and his member protruding hard and big? I …
You may be its guardian, but you may not pluck the forbidden fruit for yourself from the garden. Even if the royal family holds you in high esteem for your performance and loyalty. There are some rules set in stone – rules to remind you of your position in their society. It would be a …
There were no fixed norms for meals in our house. Everyone had their own schedules, their own menus, and their own eating places. Sometimes there was sharing and caring, but people stayed to themselves mostly. There were exceptional days though, like one when Brajesh tauji sent word out for all to have dinner together. He …
I don’t know what his siblings – and their respective families – had against my father, but it seemed they were out to suck his blood dry and destroy him in every way possible. Including the lives of his children. My father had five brothers and two sisters. The position he held with the royal …
One Mistake I made one mistake in my life. At nineteen. An age when you cannot distinguish between right and wrong, correct and incorrect, the good and the bad. It’s an age when there are no precedents, no events to base judgement on. You just do things. You are in the kindergarten of adulthood. When …
Daedalus crafted wings of wax and feathers, enabling his son Icarus to fly away from imprisonment in Crete. It worked, but the young man ignored his father’s instructions and flew too close to the sun in his exuberance. The wax melted, and he fell to his death in the sea. There is a lesson – and a warning – for us in this myth!
Somewhere along the way, people forgot to take the road to Nepal.
What comes to mind when you think of boxing? A savage sport in which two people try to beat each other into submission? A bloodthirsty sport that promotes violence? Well, you might need to read Norman Mailer’s epic story of the fight between Mohammad Ali and George Foreman in Zaire, 1974, to get a better …
So you think The Joker was a great movie (well, it was)? Or you think nothing could quite match Heath Ledger’s demented yet logical representaiton of the clown of crime in The Dark Knight? Or perhaps you are a little more classic and prefer Jack Nicholson getting chalky faced and green hair for The Batman? What …
There are a truckload of self help and self improvement books out there. Some are good, and some are well, not quite there. And right near the top of the ones that are good is Simon Sinek’s Start With Why. The reasons for this are simple – the book is incredibly easy to read, and …