Nobody is exempt from stress. Stress is a fact of life. So, also our ability to deal with stress.

When we delve deep within the mind, the mind becomes quiet: there’s also boundless stillness.

Success and contentment are a matter of choice… Attitude is what you wear.

Let’s welcome yet another Happy [and, also Safe] New Year…

Perfection, or excellence, is all about doing things right and bright.

If nature resembles law, to inquire of nature is to question time, circumstance and so on. There is no “original” state in nature. What may have been natural, at one time, could be a figment of imagination later.

Mahatma Gandhi, the apostle of peace, who’s born 140 years ago — and, destined to “live” forever — recognised the chaos that follows when we deny our responsibility and proceed in pursuit of self-interest.

Music has been a chronological hit extravaganza for aeons — from Vedic times, early history, the eras of Pythagoras, Plato, mediaeval times, the age of Sri Thyagaraja, and our present point in time, the epoch of hi-tech glitz.

P G Wodehouse not only beats Noble laureates and Booker Prize-winners hollow, but also a host of great writers — in any genre.

The self-help boom has been the biggest publishing phenomena for many years, especially in the West. It’s now catching up elsewhere — even in India.