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Leisure time may be a problem with some but it is not so with me. I read in a book that Churchill painted during leisure hours. I feel attracted when I see some interesting handicraft piece anywhere. I feel curious to know how it was done. Daily...

The most obvious stand is to write against greed. Greed is a recognized vice and it is born of an excess desire for something. It may be of power, wealth, ambition, name, fame, and what not. It brings in its wake tension and unhappiness. But apart...

Happiness is a kind of joy; it is a state of the mind. There are many kinds of happiness. A child becomes happy when he/she gets a toy. A scientist becomes happy when he discovers his desired object. Similarly a poet or a writer becomes happy when...

Fortunately the answer calls for no special thinking, as it is too evident. I think that the subject is at everyone’s finger tip and it is computer, both hardware and software.  It is today almost unavoidable. The future lies with it. But I...

cThe epigram that is the core of the subject is too true to be denied. But yet, when I put it to my personal life, I fail to equate the statement with my life. The situation underlines a paradox. On the face of it, I fall into the second category...

River and lakes are almost as old as civilization itself. The roads and Rails are, admittedly, a much later phase. Even in the prehistoric days the waters formed the prime routes. Naturally commerce art and culture and even raids or invasions were...

‘Government of the people, by the people’ – this is a patent and ubiquitous definition of democracy. The other two alternative forms of equal universal validity are oligarchy and aristocracy. Of the three, democracy is by far the best and most...

‘Show’ and ‘Substances’ are universally opposed concepts, and have passed into common parlance. But they require a brief expounding. ‘Show’ here implies attractive and tempting elements while ‘substances’ stands for internal qualities or elements...

The topic is almost a platitude today. Its basic concept cannot be denied and in the present day context the equality of status between the two genders is no longer a debatable issue. On the contrary aggression, presumptuous behaviour among women...

The premise of the above topic has assumed today a universal significance, which has never been so in the history of human civilization. My doctor uncle had once said that a man of sound health becomes aware of part of his body only when that part...