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In India, we often owe many things to our mothers.  Perhaps not the present day mothers who are more glued to television to watch the stupid serials dished out in every language.   However, look back as less as fifty years into the past,...

It is of course everyone is in need of basic amenities like food, shelter and clothes. The man is striving hard to fulfill these needs by spending his energy through doing some work or other. These are quite necessary to live in this world. In a...

Online shopping has become a buzz word these days. In our day to day lives we can see people browsing through online shopping websites like jabong.com, myntra.com, or flipkart.com. Ranging from clothes to footwear to books to electronic items to...

Some two decades ago, a cousin of mine was married into a Tamil Brahmin family, based in New Delhi.  This girl was born and brought up in Tiruchirapalli, then a small town in Central Tamil Nadu.  Once she went to New Delhi, it was a...

Not a single day passes, without some multinational organization, announcing its interest in further expansion, or plans to enter India.  The focus, for the most part, is in goods and services, that are consumed on a mass basis, by millions of...

A couple of weeks ago, I had to travel by a night bus from Chennai to Coimbatore.  It was a private bus, and we, some twenty odd passengers were waiting for the announcement.  It was around thirty minutes that we had on hand. A few...

Advanced Technology is now making us very lazy and is making us lose the very charm of life.  We seem to be caught in a very big web of the most ridiculous ways of communicating to each other, and understanding each other. For example, the...

Tiruchirapalli is the fourth largest city in Tamil Nadu, with a population of around twelve hundred thousand people.  It has an International Airport, with flights to Malaysia, Singapore and Dubai.  Tiruchirapalli is situated right in...

Every human being on this planet earth has one of a different kind of talent. Among them many pursue their talents to get achievements in their life. Other tries, some of them leave behind due to lack of resources and many of them never know what...

We often fail to understand the larger purpose of life.  We need to explore new dimensions of ourselves and reach out to the larger world, in ways that are far more meaningful than what what we do at the moment. Should we live only for making...