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I'll fly and fly. I'm born with potentials. I'm born with goodness and truth. I'm born with Ideas and dreams. I...

TamarindCity : ( audio) Where the modern India began. Tamarind city is the second book by Bishwanath Ghosh, a fellow Kanpuri...

Kishore kumar sang 'kabhi Alvida na kehna' (never say goodbye) and how we obeyed him by never forgetting him fo...

Life in a Non Metro-2 Oh Kanpur! Just like Mumbai is 'Maximum City' and Calcutta is 'City of Joy...

In the last period, I had to teach a new chapter to a class of 9 yr olds. And the story was about a nice but lazy man who s...

A typical day can be different for each of us but the night brings peace to all. We are closer to ourselves. Most of us are in our com...

     Our craving for gold in London Olympic reminds me a couplet I read in class X in Hindi. सुवर्ण को ...

 My favourite 'friends' from the world of literature: Elizabeth Bennet and Charlotte Lucas. -Pride and Prejudice. Who are y...

Shabbir Bhatia sold Hotmail to Bill Gates and became rich and famous. He was at a loss of words when his mother asked him what should she...

A-B-C-D-E-F-G Usme se nikle pandit ji. Panditji ne khaya ganna. Usme se nikla Rajesh Khanna. Rajesh khanna ne khai supari. U...

My Dehra visits are incomplete without a trip to Mussoorie. Not that I like going there but it just happens. A friend or relative persua...

Those were simpler times:    When I could see the tip of  the Clock Tower of Dehradun at daytime and twinkling lights of Mussoorie at ...

                                          Anand Bakshi -(1920-2002) Suddenly there was  pin drop silence when a fe...

Today at the workshop I am attending, someone asked me about my children. When I told her about them, She exclaimed, “You look very yo...

A farmer had a  dog who used to sit by the roadside waiting for vehicles to come around. As soon as one came he would run down the roa...

--> “ Confused sperm”! We responded in unison as we saw one of our colleagues  behaving strangely. The reason of our strange ...

After more than three decades, I was at the Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Yamuna and Ganga ,in the city of Allahabad. After vi...

Imagine the mornings of a working woman with an infant to care for. She has completed the chores like prepared food, sterilised the...

"Can I change it incase my parents like it"? A teenager asking a salesman.Sounds familiar to me. Before you know, your kid...