Manna – a story by Marshall Brain

A friend emailed me this this morning and is probably one of the best quotes I’ve come across: Courage is not the absence of fear, but the judgement that something else is more important than fear Reminded me of a random statement I came across in a book

Apart from some ad-hoc stray incidents of violence, Bangalore had so far seemed to be a relatively safer city so far. The call center employee’s gruesome murder was a pretty sharp shock to the illusion of security, it was like a cold water ruining everybody’s sound sleep! This news article… was definitely a tight slap……

Due to my job, I occasionally end up living in different countries for short periods (maybe a few months or so). During these times, I’ve been put up in a hotel or apartment room and lived off a suitcase. That was it – my entire lifetime of belongings which occupies an entire house back in…

icope had sent me to something like this long ago by the same gentleman Kichu – then it was organised by MAYA. I’d found it pretty extraordinary – to put it in a nutshell – really started getting me thinking out of the box. “A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.”…

The following is an article from Speaking Tree (center page of Times of India, one of the few things imo worth reading in the newspaper 😉 ) Many times, we hesitate to receive in the name of swaabhimaana/self-respect. I think there is a very barely noticeable thin line between true self-respect, and an egoistic emotional…