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In India, many dogs don’t eat meat. They either grow up in vegetarian households or they hang around temples where only vegetarian food  is available.
 However, it is said that of you take one of these dogs and give it meat for a week, it can never go back to  a vegeterian diet. Metaphorically speaking, this [...]

By Niraj Chandra
This is a first-hand account of what happens before, during and after Carotid surgery, written from a patient’s point of view.
There are plenty of web-sites that describe the procedure  but most of this material is  written from a medical perspective and doesnt really describe what a patient goes  through. This account, it  is hoped, will give some [...]

By Niraj Chandra
I had a mini-stroke a few weeks back and, in retrospect, it was  entirely my  fault.
Nature had given me several warning signs over the years that I simply ignored. I did a little yoga from time to time and believed that it was enough to keep me out of serious trouble. Unfortunately, life doesn’t [...]

It is early December and the tourist season should be in full swing but not much is happening in this village in Goa.
 
Everyone is heavily in debt. Lucky, a rich Russian tourist arrives at a local hotel in this village.
 
He asks for a room, puts a $20 note on the reception counter, takes a [...]

Lord Buddha was sitting under a banyan tree. One day, a furious Brahmin came to him and started abusing him.

The Brahmin thought that Gautam Buddha would reciprocate in the same manner, but to his utter surprise, there was not the slightest change in the expression on Buddha’s face.
 
This made the Brahmin  more angry. He hurled [...]

 By Subhas Puri
So you want to be an author and publish a book?
Why?
Because, you have many good thoughts in your mind, you want to put them on paper, you want to share them with others.
Ok, I am convinced.
Now what is your subject area: fiction? Non-fiction?Children books?Biography?History?Or even politics? First, realize some areas sell well and [...]

Are you trying to learn a language new,
Are you trying to sing an alien tune,
Join me in my gang as I am too,
anecdotes to share, are not just one, quite a few.
 
The first day my Professor realised,
the herculean task he was upto.
Apart from the word rendezvous,
I had absolutely no clue.
 
While I tried to learn Je m’appelle Shreya
Je [...]