The swallow within us

One of Aesop’s fables narrates the story of a Swallow – a bird well known for its forethought. A farmer was sowing some hemp (the fibre of cannabis plant, extracted from the stem and used to make rope) seeds in a field where a Swallow and few other...

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Unfurling the memory riddle

Try answering these questions as precisely as possible. What did you eat for breakfast today? What did you discuss with your friends yesterday? When did you last visit a restaurant and what did you eat? How did you spend the entire day exactly 6 months ago, 1 year...

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Staying Humble

When I was a kid, I was fond of indulging myself in the game of snakes and ladders. It was such a simple and beautiful game.  Just a small piece of cardboard having numbers 1 to 100 and adorned with colorful snakes and yellow colored ladders placed randomly at...

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Elephantine Deception

When the elephant is still a calf, it is bound to a mast just by a rope. The baby elephant struggles to escape from confinement but as the rope is thick enough to match its strength, it can’t. Noticing that its efforts are in vain, gradually this calf registers...

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Happiest man on earth

Do you know who the world’s happiest man is? It is Mr. MatthieuRicard. He is a French academic-turned-Buddhist monk. Scientists have conducted many experiments on him as part of a research and after he scored significantly above the average of hundreds of others, declared him the happiest person....

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