Intimacy, hormones, and fiction genres
Intimacy, hormones, and fiction genres What happens when, for instance, a trekker meets another trekker or a poet meets another poet or an artist comes across another artist or a movie-enthusiast meets another movie-fan or a tech-fanatic meets another gadget-lover or a traveler meets another travel-enthusiast or a married person meets another married person? They...
Curious minds create – Educated minds applaud
Walking down the road in a small city I came across a few school kids in a smart uniform wondering aloud if any of them could move large stone that was apparently too heavy for any one of them to lift. ‘This can’t be done even by a body-builder,’ said one. ‘Cranes can do it,’...
The revolt against the revolution
If Vlogs are a revolution then Blogs are poised to revolt. Words on paper and words that peer at you through the screen of a smartphone, a tablet, or a laptop have revolted and if you think the revolution fingered by videos is going to die, you need a rethink. The written words have no...
The simplest guide to earning money through blogging
Over a period of time I have realized that most people do not like massive paragraphs and long articles. But I simply cannot distance myself from this as writing long posts is my style. So if you want to read more about how your passion for blogging can result in income, read Blogging is an...
Blogging is an irrepressible phenomenon
Blogging questions. Blogging answers. Blogging seeks readers. Blogging accepts affirmations. Blogging learns to live with rejections. Blogging transforms a blogger into an explorer. Blogging kindles hope. Blogging purges the negativity of moments. Blogging attracts attention. Blogging promotes ideas and sells products. Blogging reviews the world and all that is going on in it. Blogging embraces...
The joys of looking up
What no one realizes is that every point has the potential to be a low point and every spot can be a summit. There are plenty of summits lying under the ocean and we call them tipping points of depressions because the ocean floor is far deeper. A wave, for instance wouldn’t remain a wave...
Travel sparks inspiration – Travelers inspire sparks
A friend once remarked: ‘Travel nurtures and strengthens an individual’s soul.’ ‘What?’ I said, ‘Is that the first line of your stand-up comedy?’ And then went on to tell this friend that when people talk about travel nurturing and nourishing souls do they even know what they are talking about? The soul, and I’m only...
Understanding how to restart your life
What happened that morning is still fresh in my mind. I had got up with a lot of ideas that disguise themselves as dreams. Some of these ideas had also arranged themselves into sentences and I was eager to write all of them on my laptop before other activities decided to bully them into jumping...
Next in the queue
Queues and the word ‘next’ are as clichéd as a politician hopping from one party to another. Opting for a title submerged in clichés doesn’t mean though that an original idea won’t suddenly pop up to surprise you. But let me just say that the idea for this title came when I heard someone ask...
I met God once, you know
God is a sensation. And He is sensational too. This fellow has a knack for springing surprises at the most unexpected time. Every time in the midst of writing a post as I am constructing a really difficult but interesting sentence, the phone will ring… and with my left hand I just pick it up...
Education is for ediots
Let me say at the outset that education has single-handedly pushed humanity into a vicious cycle where we’re going round and round in circles that are stacked on top of each other. By this definition we should be high enough to watch even the Everest look alarmingly up as we merrily trot on our circular...
The creamy layer
The small boy stopped filling the sack hung on his back with sellable ‘kachra’, looked up and saw another boy of his own age pull his father towards the roadside kiosk, pleading, ‘Buy me a chocolate.’ His sweating father meanwhile was watching the owner of the kiosk happily sitting under a fan and counting money...
