Rummaging through the pages of history, one won’t fail to notice that majority of the world’s greatest achievers were essentially strong willed. Jesus Christ rebelled against Roman supremacy and was mercilessly crucified for holding on to his stand of one God; later down the ages, while one marvels at the revolutionary feat of Darwin that unsettled man’s primitive ideas about existence, it again reaffirms Darwin’s indomitable spirit.Continue reading
Of Lying Kids and Their Lies
When was the first time you lied in childhood? Were you rebuked? Did the scolding succeed in arousing your sleeping conscience? Or did you shrug off the incident as petty and hurl it into a perpetually abandoned region of the mind? Anything is possible, but the indifference in the latter would probably promote the habit to germinate, feeding on the attitude of lethargy, misguidance, clinging on to it, polluting it, devouring the better impulses and finally bursting forth in the form of a great irreparable flaw.Continue reading
Disrespectful Children: A Growing Malady
There were beads of perspiration on her forehead; she felt nervous and then there was a searing pain in her lower abdomen. Deft hands worked fast and after what seemed like an eternity, she heard the cry, shrill, loud and yet pleasing, long awaited. Her son had been born!!Continue reading