Perhaps the most unfortunate outcome of the much-talked-about Delhi incident is that it has become acceptable to pass sweepingly degrading comments about the character of men in general. I saw many articles on the internet, posts on facebook, and even columns in mainstream newspapers that put the blame for the problem on boys not being […]

When I was working in a software development company, while appraising team memebers, we were alerted to the so called “recency” effect, by which we are likely to give more weightage to more recent deeds of employees, while we’re actually expected to evaluate their contribution throughout the appraisal period. A similar effect can be seen […]

My friend and I were waiting to cross the road, when this particular thought crossed my mind – “What would we do differently, if human body would not be damaged by physical impact?”. The way I imagined it was, if a car were to hit you, you might be thrown off a few metres (following […]

I had dinner from a South Indian restaurant last week and, for a change, I ordered Chilly Parotta. If you haven’t tried it before, I might try to explain it as a very spicy preparation based on Parotta. Parotta itself is unhealthy, and if you can somehow make it more so, that is by transforming it thus! […]

It’s a sad story from my school days – early school days, in fact. I was 5 or 6 years old, and I don’t remember many of the things that happened back then. But this one I remember so vividly that I still feel a crushing sorrow as I recollect this story. For us, Saturday […]

In spite of the very narrow focus that they had from the beginning, I had hoped that Arvind Kejriwal would bring some freshness to our stale political arena. However, with their vision document, they had already forced me out of that wishful thinking, and now with the party and its name being official, I clearly […]

I followed a link posted by a friend on facebook, to this interesting article which cites a study that claims that Human intellect peaked a few thousand years ago and has been declining since. The gist of the argument is that “Since the invention of agriculture and cities, however, natural selection on our intellect has effective […]