On 25th april 2018, I decided I would write a post a day for at least 30 days. And For 30 days I wrote and published one article every single day. Every article was written the day it was published (with NO exceptions). Each morning I would wake up and have no idea what I would […]
The last day at Shaolin Gurukul
It’s Quiet now. The Gurukul Located in the hills of Pangot, near Nainital was bustling every day with sounds of energetic conversations about life, religion, culture, human nature, political inclinations and fitness. Every voice carried a hint of an accent. Every face seemed different. And yet they had an amazingly simple sense of camaraderie. Every one […]
How to set up and use a dead-letter box
What is a DLB? DLB is an acronym for a dead-letter box. It is also called a dead drop. A DLB is a physical location where the material is covertly placed for another person to collect without direct contact between the parties. Good locations for dead-letter boxes are nooks and crannies in public buildings, niches in brick walls, […]
How to become Impervious to Emotional manipulation
We’ve all been manipulated by other people, and it’s likely that we’ve done a bit of manipulation ourselves. Telling a white lie in order to get what we want is one way of manipulating someone. Students are notorious for telling teachers that they couldn’t get their paper in on time because their computer crashed last […]
4 things first to die in all victim communities
That’s right. Not a single victim. An entire victim community. And not one, there are many many of them. In America, there are Native Americans, often dubbed “Indians.” In India, there are Hindu Kashmiri Migrants. In some circles of the world, women are still one such community. There was a time when Jews were a […]