Was reading an article by Stephen Covey the other day and found it so meaningful and true I thought Id share it with you today: Its called the 90/10 Principle. It will change the way you manage your life. What
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A few years ago while spending a pleasant evening in one of the many family run restaurants in Korea, seated comfortably on cushions at low tables with legs crossed in modified lotus position, the middle aged w
Exhausted after having written the synopsis of a three act play, getting a top Mumbai theatre personality interested in another, meeting a producer for my film script, and finishing the teaching of my onl
The Supreme Court feels that the two years imprisonment now meted out for causing death due to rash driving is grossly inadequate. I agree, but would like to define what the police believe is rash and negligent
The people are revolting in Sri Lanka! So what?Russia is invading Ukraine! Im not bothered!A certain community is being bullied! So what, Its not mine!Every day we read of war, human rights violations, cruel in
Many years ago, I fell sick with a near fatal illness. Most doctors gave up on me, except the Mighty Healer. After getting back on my feet, albeit a little shaky, I remember conducting a choir, in which my gift
As I see people applauding, believing wholeheartedly in what our present politicians promise I remembered a joke my late mother had sent me, called 'The Vote for Heaven or Hell!'A powerful senator dies after a
I still remember that day, I slipped and fell in the bathroom. My feet shot into the air and I fell with a thud on my back. I gingerly opened eyes and found that except for a slightly bruised elbow, I was none
As a teenager, I quite often faced pimples, and sometimes a single pimple sprouting out of my face could wreck my confidence, my evening and even make me lose a date! I remember an ad that used to come out, If
Was enjoying my coffee on my terrace garden this morning, watching friendly squirrels and birds pecking at pieces of bread Id thrown for them, then slowly began to feel restless, even as I was enjoying the most
She stood, a small figure in front of the school notice board. With anxious eyes she searched for her number. It wasn't there.The girls around her jostled and pushed. There were screams of delight and shrieks o
If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've obviously never been in bed with a mosquito.Quite often I see people who dont want to be noticed. Its not that they are not noticed, its just that they
How much money did it take for so many MLAs to cross the floor, betray their leader, betray their voters, forget their ideology and run to the other end of the country? I wonder what people do with so muc
Something I love doing if I go for a drive, is to instruct my driver to drive slowly, while I look down every street, into every shop, sometimes homes that have their doors open. I gaze at people going about th
A year ago, on that morning of July 5th in a hospital in Mumbai, a voice spoke, Youre free Father Stan!Free? How can I be free, Ive been languishing in prison for over eight months! Hey!What?Im supposed to be d
I hope Im not going to put you and your family to any inconvenience, I tell my friend as I enter his house.No problems, for any of us, We have a guestroom waiting for you!I shudder when I hear those words.Ive n
The joyous shouts from the private swimming pool outside, the thought of a scrumptious breakfast soon, the sight of my two beloved daughters and their husbands, and hot coffee brought to my little cottage by my
Dad, said my daughter one day, Isnt it Central Park that youve always loved? I was quiet, because though I loved the park and all the fall colours I was sure it offered, I still knew that it was a bit of a more
Yesterday was Fathers Day, which made me remember a story I told prisoners in a jail about another father. It so happened that a team invited me to visit a prison in Mumbai. What I saw that day in that prison w
It was as the forty plus politician, the beginnings of grey stubble on his cheek, looking down and despondent, walked away from the hospital, where his mother, suffering from post covid complications lay, that
