Bangalore had always been the city of my dreams. It had captured my imagination a very long time ago, right during the innocent days of my childhood itself, long before the IT boom that created the so-called “Silicon Valley” of India and the mindless frenzy of greed and destruction turned it into the fustercluck it…
Five years ago, as the prime years of my youth were starting to wane, I suddenly realised that most of my life had been an endless parade of missed chances, lost opportunities, what ifs and could have beens. I realised that there was precious little I could do with what I had learned from them,…
We all have experienced that moment of pure horror when we try to feel our (expensive) mobile phone in the pocket and with a shock fail to find it there. But in most cases, this is usually immediately followed by the sensation of warm relief washing over us when we find that it was actually…
After chronicling the first 17, here come the remaining 16 of the 33 top lessons life has taught me in the past as many years of my existence. It is not so bad, actually. 1. Always Listen to Your Mother Other than your mother, no one really cares for you. Everyone else, no matter who…
33 years is not a long time. It is in fact infinitesimally smaller than infinitesimally small in the grand scheme of things. But 33 years is time enough for a lowly human being to learn a lesson or two or thirty three about life. You learn all your lessons in life from the mistakes you…
“Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young” This is the title of an original essay written by Mary Schmich which appeared in a Chicago Tribune column in June 1997. The contents of that column later contributed and became famous as lyrics to Baz Luhrmann’s cult music video: Everyone is Free (To Wear Sunscreen) and…