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Ancient philosophers used to ponder the question, “Let’s assume that you buy a new knife. Six months later you change the wooden handle alon...

Through a combination of chance and circumstance, the following individuals came to occupy berths 1 to 6 of a II Class compartment of a trai...

I was with two of my colleagues yesterday at the open-air restaurant of the Taj Garden Retreat, Madurai, when this magnificent creature desc...

Different professions boast of different core competencies. Doctors, for example, are extremely proficient in looking busy and walking at a ...

Continuing with my series on the mobile phone…….. A colleague who was on a flight from Delhi and I (on a flight from Chennai) arrived in Mu...

How and when did the terrorist attack on September 11th in the USA, come to be referred to as ‘nine-eleven’? I tried to google for informati...

I was absorbed in a nice juicy chitchat with a friend on my mobile phone, when the doorbell rang. Continuing with the conversation and holdi...

In the opening page of his classic, “Three Men in a Boat ”, the author Jerome K Jerome , describes the turmoil he had to go through whenever...

The humble crow. Black all over. Doomed to this achromatic existence, when every other creature on earth is resplendent in multiple colour...

David Bodanis , a popular science writer, in his book E= MC2 , says that one of the many similarities between Newton and Einstein was that b...

He was the last passenger to board the plane at Dubai. Armed with two large shopping bags that had been picked up in the duty-free shops at ...

This has been an action-filled week. The sequence of events so far..... Aug 22, 2006 : At a meeting in Prague, the International Astronomy...

In his e-book, The Diamond Invention , the American investigative journalist Edward Jay Epstein says that for over a hundred years, a singl...

All over the blogosphere, poems on love are being churned out with effortless ease and at an amazing frequency . Some bloggers even narrate ...

Two achievers, in two different fields, have revealed the secrets of their respective success. Ms. Indra Nooyi ( on being appointed the CEO-...

As per this Readability Test , my blog scores 11.19 on the Gunning Fog index- which means it is as easy to understand as the Wall Street Jou...

I remember a story that I heard a few years back on BBC about a punter from London, who sold his entire assets for something like 200,000 po...

An argument, put forward by those who hold creationist beliefs, goes like this. If, some aliens were to visit Mount Rushmore and see the col...

Famous sayings get famous in the first place, not because they are worthy of fame, but because they are uttered by famous people…………… Ralph ...

In his book titled, “The Pig that wants to be eaten ”, author Julian Baggini provides this thought experiment, a modern version of the alleg...