Author Archives: Zephyr
Falling off the map with Pico Iyer – A Book Review
Pico Iyer’s ‘Falling off the Map’ is less a travel book and more a sociological study of the times in the Lonely Places he has talked about.
Mind over body–Does it actually work?
While the mind can make the body do its bidding, there are times when the body needs to be heard and heeded.
Holiday Homework Blues
When did summer holidays cease to be joy for kids and turn into a pain for both the children and the parents?
Give a person a good name…
There is no motivation for the bad dogs to reform, for no matter what they do, they will be demonized and vilified and might even end up turning into criminals.
Where have all the games gone?
It is a pity that many of the games that were played a couple of generations ago have become virtually ‘extinct’ today.
Spare me the jargon please!
Don’t ever shy away from using as much jargon as you can, for the more befuddled your words and sentences are, the more intelligent you will deemed to be.
Turn off that mental chatter, will you?
Not for nothing did our elders say that the mind is like a monkey that can’t stay still.
Of Beauty, Barbie and Granny Hair
Being confident about oneself means not finding the need to make proclamations about loving one’s body or such! Where is the need to justify anything? The confidence should be speaking for itself.
Giving with compassion, not pity, brings joy to both giver and receiver
Annadanam is distinct from poor feeding, as it is about feeding the hungry, regardless of whether it is a human or other living beings, even an ant!
.. and it was not Valentine’s Day
An L&M post for Valentine’s Day, especially since neither of us give it even a thought? Gasp! My regular readers are sure to do a double take when they see the title and read the post, for this one is a little ‘hatke’. The man himself was mighty pleased and smiled smugly. After all, he has […]
Information Overload could be creating clueless mini-adults
Information overload can adversely affect children in more ways than one, mainly robbing them of their innocence.
The Cybernag 
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