Why do people use harsh words and become abusive? We know the answer and yet do not know because we keep our tongues wagging. Read more

The debate whether it would be ethical to recreate species gone extinct long ago has come up again. Read more

Perhaps the human brain is the most complex thing one can think of on this planet. Therefore, understanding it too becomes as difficult. We know very little of its working. How to keep it in “high gear” by rescuing it from the lows it goes into quite often can’t be in everybody’s easy grasp. Read more

One must always be on the way to self-improvement; or else one is no better than an animal. The need for constant thinking on ways and means to be better every day can’t be overemphasised. Read more

It is more in our nature to be happy and not in sorrow; but the reality is the reverse: We are more in sorrow than in happiness. That is because we are too lazy to act and maybe even ignorant of the circumstances and hence not in a position to deal with the circumstances. Read more

One may or may not believe in horoscope, but I am yet to see a person who does not check what it has for him/her for the day/week/year. Read more

To be angry is normal and natural but to exhibit it is unnatural and beastly. Therefore, it is unrealistic to hope and think that all human beings should have the same nature — good and noble and without any trace of anger. We are born and brought up in different environment and circumstances and hence differences in nature are bound to be there. Read more

No discipline means no orderly life and hence no success. Discipline is the force that makes one find solution to difficult tasks. Read more

For most of us ordinary mortals, the very idea of death can be scary. Until one realises that death is as good as birth because it too is a growth process, one will carry the burden of death scare throughout one’s life. One whose life-lease is about to come to an end, the scare of death takes his/her apprehensions to mountainous proportion. Read more

Perhaps the most discussed topic across the globe today is religion and its role. That shows either we are not yet sure of its importance in life or we are scared that it is being misused and hence a reassertion to keep it in its purity of essence. Read more