Moonballs from Planet Earth

Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO Since Satya Nadella’s appointment as Microsoft's CEO, my Facebook news feed and email inbox have been...

Just finished this excellent book called Moonwalking with Einstein, by Joshua Foer. Among its many pleasures was this passage, which fee...

This popular TED talk by ex-management-consultant Angela Lee Duckworth reports that the key to success, in academics and in life, is...t...

Monty Panesar celebrates with his England team mates Whatever happened to Monty? For years he was international cricket’s quietes...

Samudra Manthan My children were listening to a story. I was sitting with them, squirming with discomfort. The story was Samudra Man...

Sitting around staring at brick walls is called "woozling" in my family. I just discovered that James Bond woozles too...

"Our works do not ennoble us; we must ennoble our works" - Meister Eckhart. I came across these words at a corporate...

"Oftentimes have I heard you speak of one who commits a wrong as though he were not one of you, but a stranger unto you and an intru...

Daniel Barenboim conducting the West Eastern Divan Orchestra The BBC Proms, on TV this week, features the West Eastern Divan Orchestra...

I hate fortune tellers. This feeling isn't mild, amused scepticism, but fierce antipathy, and comes from Indian upbringing. B...

"Compassion has enemies...like pity, and moral outrage..." I came across these words in a TED talk by the Buddhist Roshi Joan H...

I’ve been wrong about Liz Hurley’s love life previously. I predicted that Liz and her Indian husband Arun Nayar would make a good couple, ...

"Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle".  I chanced upon this quote a couple of months ago,...

"Follow your dream" is advice I have frequently received. This is also advice I have given multiple times. However, in most cir...

தென் பாண்டி சீமையிலே தேரோடும் வீதியிலே மான் போல வந்தவனே யார்   அடித்தாரோ யார்   அடித்தாரோ These lyrics are from the theme song o...

"Life gradually became less a search for meaning than a process of optimization: how to put this sentence the best way in the fewest wo...

Once upon a time, King Drupada ruled over the land of Panchala. Drupada was wise and just, his subjects were happy and loyal. However, King ...

How could India lose like that ? India are the world number 1, the world champions. And yet, we lost to England. Twice, By big margins. ...

India won the World Cup. Wow! How did we do it? (A) we cheated (B) we were lucky (C) we have a team of geniuses (D) it is written. And yes! ...