I remember the first Republic Day of India quite vividly, rather as vividly as then a boy of five could. It was frenzied – I could not understand what the hullaballoo was all about. The word ‘Republic’ meant very little, rather almost next to nothing to me, but I found the mood every-where jubilant. It […]
. Elected twice as the Conservative Party’s Prime Minister (UK) (1940 to 1945; and 1951 to 1955), Sir Winston Churchill was a statesman, an orator, a master of quick Birbalic wit (if I may so coin the phrase), and the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature. His mastery in English is explained in his […]
It’s that time of the year – the “get me to the baug on time,” time. The time when the monthly budget goes awry, and if it is a family wedding, it goes absolutely ballistic. The marginal utility of the bank simply does not seem to diminish. Carl Menger who propounded the theory of Marginal […]
Ms. Hemavati Pal, the erstwhile Teacher, Principal and Administrator of Sir J.J. Girls’ High School passed away peacefully in her sleep on 12th October, 2018, at her home in Mangalore, at the age of seventy-nine. Born in Mangalore on 26th August, 1929, Ms. Pal completed her schooling and graduation in Mangalore and her MA degree […]
. Idioms aren’t idiotic. They are replete with wisdom, lessons in morals and a lot more besides being amusing. ‘Being the breadwinner’: Most of our life is spent in working and earning our livelihood, or being the breadwinner. ‘Breadwinner’ stands for someone who works and earns for the family, especially the sole earner. This phrase […]
. To Be ‘Born With A Silver Spoon In The Mouth’: It was back in time, in England, when the majority of the people in the middle ages used to have wooden cutlery. It was only the wealthy who were fortunate to have metal spoons. Silver spoons were often given by the wealthy godparents to their God-children on […]
. It was a pleasant late morning in Vienna. After visiting the famous Schonbrunn Palace, doing a step or two to the tune of the Emperor Waltz there in the crowded ballroom, and after buying a souvenir, a beautiful cup and saucer with the portrait of Empress Elizabeth Sisi, we were on our way to […]
Daena, the moral and religious conscience of man, accompanies the soul, after his bodily death, to the next world. It leads the soul to the abode of weal or woe, according to the righteous or wicked life led by the soul upon earth. On the dawn of the fourth day after death, the soul of […]
There is a mistaken notion that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. This is a fallacy. A man is all stomach, especially a Parsi. It is not a via-media to anything else. His love for food has led him to plagiarize culinary marvels from all over the world. I find it […]
It happened one day, the time I was trying to eke out a satisfactory living, satisfactory to my wife, struggling times for me. I had to meet a CEO of a foreign company. I had fixed up an appointment with his secretary for 9:30 am. At 9:25am, I entered her office. The secretary, unused to […]
Popularly known the world over as ‘JRD’, and to the close circle of friends as ‘Jeh’, Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (29 July, 1904 – 29 November, 1993) was the pioneer of aviation in India – holder of India’s first Private Pilot License; a dynamic entrepreneur and the legendary chairman of the great Tata Group of […]