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The Dinosaur Puzzle and Other Stories is a mixed bag of delightful stories for Middle Graders / Young Adults and for everyone young at heart. Read to find out….. What does Ananda’s great grandmother have to do with the missing bones of a dinosaur? Ayub finds a wounded ‘soldier’ and hides him...

Today, October 2nd, is Gandhi Jayanti, the birth date of M.K.Gandhi, or Mahatma Gandhi, as he was later called. It is amazing how much of writing Gandhi did; he wrote articles, pamphlets and speeches which when compiled, have filled several books. He also wrote his autobiography. 'The Story of...

One reason for this is men have considered women their possession, a commodity, their chattel. Another very ugly manifestation of this mindset is 'honor killing' which is still happening in many parts of the world, India included. I have included a story in 'The Vigil' titled 'A Lifetime'...

How about this rather old fashioned method for noting down information? I'm sure you have major areas of interest so you can section out a journal for each topic, have an index, and also allot one section for Misc. Whenever you come across something interesting, you can briefly note it down in...

I agree. That age usually does this.

Google or someone else will solve these too. We'll have no worries. Isn't that a worrying thought? Worrying is a good pastime.

Sitas' Lives : A story in The Vigil and Other Stories Sita, along with Rama, is a central character in the Hindu epic, Ramayana, and remains an ideal for Indian womanhood to this day. In Sitas' lives, I have explored this deep link to the past. EXCERPT: Sita had learnt that she was to be...

I have a much better memory for fiction. My recollection of the books I read years ago is much more vivid than what I have read in recent years. This I attribute to the natural phenomenon of aging....and accept it.

I would advocate exposure to good literature at the earliest age possible. I think our reading tastes are formed at a pretty early age. The format of the book is also very important. A child starting with comic books may not switch over to chapter books very easily. I don't know how it would...

You have taken the right step because you cannot sustain a friendship / relationship by pretending to be something you are not. Best of luck with everything, including your studies.

Other halves should be opposite, to form a perfect whole :D.

I do not open books very wide. If a book is thick, I'm extra careful. This habit does not make comfortable reading because when the book is opened to only 100 degrees or so, you have to keep changing the direction to read the left side page and the right side page. I'm also very careful with the...

Someone I know in Singapore, who is in the intelligence service, let out that he and his force are a worried lot. It looks like an Enemy of the State is dropping banana peels, which I understand is a capital offence, all over the city. My friend told me the entire force is out to get this man...

Apart from the sms words, the umbrella words, 'cool, hot, chill', have truncated vocabulary. Things are either hot, cool, and there's another one, they rock!

Most visual content (movies, computer games, music videos) is edited to move at a very fast pace; the scene changes in the blink of an eye. You have to be very attentive if you want everything to register though I'm sure even then, you may miss a few details. Does this mean we need a longer...

I understood that. What I meant was the post count was possibly a matter of personal achievement for that person (like work being its own reward:) ) and resetting the word count a matter of personal satisfaction (?) for the admin ;) 'cause we human beings exhibit such traits in all communities...

I find opening /handling a book is not linked to how much one loves books or even about knowing the best way to handle them. It is a part of one's personality. I have a couple of friends who love books but don't handle them too gently. One of them multitasks a lot so she props up the book...

Only 18,284? I remember seeing your post count as 30K something. What happened to the rest?

This question will most likely becomes redundant in the near future. Some people have no regard for the spine of a book; they open it wide while reading, plop it face down while not reading, and plonk some heavy object on it when they take a break. Others treat the book gently; they support...

Very true.