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Consider these two statements: John tells wife at dining table: “Darling, this is the worst chicken curry I have ever had! I don’t think you were paying attention to cooking today. It’s awful!” Tom tells wife at dining table: “Darling, it seems you are out of habit today. There is something wrong with this chicken curry, but I can’t tell what. Why don’t you taste it?” If you are a woman, who would want as your husband? John or Tom?We know Tom will be your choice unless you are a sucker for trouble. We all handle situations differently according to [...]
Green is the colour of life. It signifies calmness, renewal, health and growth. But this lively hue becomes deathly at one place — in eyes. It’s Jealousy. The nasty feeling begins to hurt and starts to ruin. It devours relationships and creates anxiety, anger, loneliness, hate and fear. It’s a devastating emotion and it’s difficult to deal with a jealous person. Jealousy makes the person detestable and repulsive. Like all of you, I am yet to meet a person who wants to be jealous or who wants to deal with a jealous. But all of us sometimes get jealous or [...]
I was never good at maths. Geometry inspired me to renounce the world and go to the woods in search of God, while Algebra always made me want to run like a zany zebra. But that hardly stops me from making a point using arithmetical examples. Here is one: Suppose you want $10 from me to buy an underwear. I readily agree to borrow you $10. Now, calculate and find out how much money can I give you when I have none in my pocket? Ah! I know it was easy. I just presented it in a complicated way. So, [...]
One day last month, I was getting late for work and was hurriedly tying shoe laces in the living room. My father was watching TV and mom was in the kitchen. Even as I was busy with the shoe strings, I looked up at the TV screen to see what he was watching so attentively. It was a serial, in which a middle-aged man was running on treadmill, while his 25-something daughter sat on a bench waiting for him to finish. I looked at my father and said: “I fail to understand why people watch these foolish serials. Do they [...]
I don’t remember the date, but I distinctly remember that evening in December 2006. A regular busy day in the newsroom at Mumbai Mirror where I worked. Our crime reporter, Danish Khan, walked up to me with a sheet of paper and said: “Here is the suicide story.” I instantly checked the news list for the day. Danish’s story was not on the list. “It [the suicide] happened a few hours ago,” Danish told me. I read the story. It was about a 25-something girl who had committed suicide by jumping off a multistoried building in south Mumbai. She did [...]
You know what: I don’t know this lady in the picture. But I believe we’ll get along well because we probably think alike. For example, looking at her gesture, I safely assume that we share our fondness for lady’s finger (okra). I love okra fries. In my opinion, the poor woman is probably invalid and through the gesture she’s just imploring her husband to go the market and buy the green vegetable, ensuring that none of them are smaller than her middle finger. I’m sure the protectors and guardians of obscene gestures are going to look down upon me with [...]
BY VISHWAS HEATHCLIFF Today I’ll do business with you. Here’s a deal: You give me 1,000 bucks and I give you potatoes worth Rs 500 in return. Not fair? Ok, here’s another proposition: You pay me Rs 5,000 and in exchange you get from me headless chicken worth Rs 2,000. Still inequitable? Yes? Do I see scorn on your face? Then sorry, mate; I can’t do business with you. I seriously think you’re asking for too much. Before you stop reading this in anger or use this page to wrap the crap a cat left behind last night, I admit [...]
Priya and Sameer, both in their late 30s, were going steady for about 10 years. But they frequently fought. They were quarrelling even when they came to see me to discuss the delay in their marriage. Sameer’s complaint: Priya has been postponing their marriage. Her grievance: he has been insisting on tying the knot before she “settles” in her career. Sameer saw no merit in her argument because he thought she was pretty settled as a senior manager with an MNC. When I looked at their handwriting samples, I discovered Priya was procrastinating about the marriage (indicated by the lower [...]
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