‘All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way’ is the beginning statement in Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, acclaimed the best novel ever written. This statement does not seem to hold in the case of alcoholics. Reading their stories, a striking pattern quickly emerges. Similar…

In Africa, Easter is a welcome holiday for Christians and non-Christians alike perhaps more for motives of rest than for motives of religion and faith. Many educated urbanites dismiss Christianity as a dangerous colonial trickery which was meant to placate the African, to pave the way for his consequent plunder…

Some people taste food. Some eat food. Our eating habits travel the whole gamut from the strangely queer to the plain absurd. Steve Jobs could exclusively eat one food, like carrots, for a number of weeks. Donald Trump is the typical American fast-foods lover except that his love for twitter…

Neighbors would quietly tiptoe to the window to hear the little boy play the piano. They had never listened to anything like that. It was like the melody of angels. At 12, the little boy had composed his own piece of music! It was the talk of everyone. This little…

How One Christian Ended Violent Games in Rome Suppose you were given a chance to visit only one building in the world, which building would you choose? Some people would choose the Eiffel Tower in Paris. At the time it was built, the Eiffel Tower was the tallest man-made building…

Marco Polo: The Half Has Never Been Told Many years ago, around the time that Marco Polo was born, people knew very little about the world around them. There was no internet, no google-maps and no aeroplanes. Apart from Egypt, many Europeans knew nothing of Africa. Europeans also knew nothing…

No More Sea “Can someone please tell me where Geoffrey is?” I pleaded frantically on an e-mail group of our former High School class-mates. I was holding my breath for any positive response, eagerly desiring to know the whereabouts of my long-lost friend. A day passed and there was no…

I am very sure many parents would agree to play Mozart or Beethoven even for six hours every day if it would guarantee the success of their children. If the success of your child was guaranteed by performing a certain weird but arduous task — — something like washing her…

International Education Is About the Mind, Not Mileage Nazi Germany’s New Education Exalts a ‘Cultural Nationalism’ The above is a headline in a 1933 New York Times Newspaper. The article described how the ‘old individualism’ under the republic was being replaced by a feeling of oneness with the state. The…