Chandra Shekhar Chitrala
Sometime in early January this year, my better half Subha announced that a niece of ours had a friend who was looking for a good home for a Labrador puppy, and that ours would be that home. With all the firmness I could muster up, I put my foot down and said that we would…
read moreOne of the saddest things that I see nowadays is good friends falling out due to their differing views. The interesting thing is that both of them want the same thing, but are prepared to destroy the very thing they want due to their belief that their way is the only/right way to achieve it.…
read moreOne of the interesting developments during the last year was the behaviour of the stock market. Conventional wisdom dictated that with complete global shutdowns affecting production as well as consumption, leading to a collapse in the national GDP, the effect on businesses and consequently on their share prices would be disastrous. However, after an initial…
read moreThis Women’s Day, I was privileged to be a part of a panel in an event organised by ThinkZone – a startup focussing on bringing quality education to pre-primary and primary school children in rural areas. I must admit it was a bit disconcerting to find that I was the only male participant in the…
read moreThe other day I received a WhatsApp forward of a 1964 video of Arthur C Clarke talking about the city of the future. (You can see the video here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC3E2qTCIY8 ) Seeing this, one can but wonder about his vision and how accurate his foresight was! Though we still have some way to go…
read moreThe origin of most religions can be traced to the need for order and discipline in society through definition of what constitutes acceptable behaviour and what does not. Consequently, those actions that were deemed harmful were called sins, that would be punishable, either in this life, in the afterlife or in the next life, depending…
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