Those Days It was 1968. I was a strapping young man (strapping young man or woman is strong, tall, and looks healthy and active a strapping young lad — here I was all but for being tall) doing my graduation from the college next to our house. I used to…

Chicken is more addictive than Alcohol Which came first, the Chicken or the Egg? is the perennial non-starter and some people try to chicken out of this question while some run like a headless chicken but the question and its answer remain elusive. I agree that I am no spring…

Born: about 520 BC in Shalatula (near Attock), now Pakistan Died: about 460 BC in India Panini was born in Shalatula, a town near to Attock on the Indus river in present day Pakistan. The dates given for Panini are pure guesses. Experts give dates in the 4th, 5th, 6th…

Today is the day to remember Papaji- Shri R. K. Gupta Retd. District & Sessions Judge of Muzaffarnagar who spent almost 30 years post retirement in M’nagar and his last 10 years in Noida with Deepak, my younger brother. On this day last year he was with us but God…

Maharashtra-My Favorite haunt I have lived and served in Maharashtra for substantial period of my working life and if I have a continuing or rather abiding interest in Maharashtra and its people and therefore, if this account is laudatory, it should not be called prejudice on my part. The fascination…

I have set myself to write about a subject which is known and to an extent practiced also by some of us but not understood as a concept as we do about other such concepts as Honesty, Punctuality or Truthfulness etc. It is an idea about which, I feel, people…

I am slightly tongue tied to say anything while wondering as to why the Women’s Day is also the Mother’s Day. Is it that the form of Mother is the only form of women that can be venerated all over the world? Is it that all other positions of women…

Scent of a Woman — Al Pacino’s Speech Home / Analyses / Scent of a Woman — Al Pacino’s Speech This is the famous speech of Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade (Al Pacino) in the movie Scent of a Woman(1992) defending Charlie Simms in front of the headmaster Trask and the…

A time comes in the life of a person when he/she feels like sharing his experiences with the world. It may be a totally self-grandstanding approach and most of it may be called ‘Lecturing some worn-out ideas’. Many memoirs have been written making no difference to the life and times…