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Those of you who want to prevent a heart-attack or some of you who have already suffered a heart attack but want to prevent the next one, ta...

You should have seen the fuss that my wife made and the tantrums that she threw up when I woke her from a afternoon siesta yesterday and ask...

I confess that I am dismayed by the proliferation of new institutions such as the unisex beauty parlours and family saloons. One, they threa...

A generation back, there was a simple method to separate the men from the boys. The real men were those who could claim total mastery over t...

In an article published three years back, TIME magazine had analysed the reasons behind India’s success with IT and software. “How did India...

There is a pronounced cultural bias, when it comes to appreciation of the parts of the human anatomy. The Japanese people go ga-ga over long...

Saraanch’s blog on how the same piece of a specific rajma gets lodged everytime in his second, upper-molar, reminded me of an identical exp...

If Harry Potter series can be stretched over seven episodes and Star Wars over six ( if I haven’t got the figure wrong), won’t you permit me...

I heard this story on a BBC radio program. In the tiny village of Glaslough, Ireland, populated by a few hundred people, there lived a man c...

As a nation, we face an acute shortage of genuine heroes - at least the ones cast in the western mould. You know the type, strongest, talles...

My daughter’s bicycle was stolen, one day, from our house. Dreading the red-tape, I chose not to file a complaint with the police and accept...

My wife ( hereinafter referred to as “She” to protect my identity) is a voracious reader of horror books and an avid watcher of horror movie...

Ganesh was a creative genius, a brilliant innovator, a compulsive tinkerer or a gizmo-geek, depending on how one viewed his obsession with g...