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97Does Money Buy Happiness?
Is there an answer to this, one of life’s great mysteries? Those of us who don’t have much money will probably announce that happiness is not about money at all. That’s because we don’t know any better, having never had the means to try to...
302 comments96Going Grey Gracefully
There comes a time when one has to accept defeat against the inexorable forces of nature. Mine has come. For more than a decade now I’ve been fighting a losing battle with whichever pigmentation god has been assigned the task of stripping my...
105 comments88Dilemmas of a Crazy Cat Lady
My niece thinks I’m turning into a 'crazy cat lady', not because I live with a houseful of felines but because I post a picture of a cat on Facebook every day. The pictures have captions, and they’re not always kind. They tend to reflect the...
56 comments86Are Busybodies Born That Way?
In my earlier journalist avatar I was trained to focus on the Five Ws (and one H) in order to put together a coherent report. However I never allowed that curiosity to spill over into my private life. Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? These...
77 comments82Can and Does Philosophy Contribute to Solving the World's Big Problems?
This is not a subject I could ever have come up with myself, not being inclined to pondering such deep things in the normal course of life. I cannot however be so rude as to ignore a request, and even though I seriously doubt my ability to answer...
48 comments78Help, I’m a Hypochondriac!
It’s strange how much we take good health for granted. As long as we’re in the pink of health, we don’t care about the mysterious workings of our body. I know I never spent much time wondering which organ played what role in my body and how it...
60 comments77Too Laid-back?
I was ambling along the other day, supposedly on a brisk evening walk, when I bumped into a former colleague I hadn’t met in a long while. After the initial squeals of recognition we lapsed into the usual so-what-have-you-been-doing-lately...
65 comments78Too Lazy to Write
It amazes me the number of people who want to write and be read out there! As one who has to write or edit other people's efforts for a living I rarely feel inclined to write for fun. And especially not if someone isn't going to pay me for my...
48 comments79Mid-Life Crises and Teenage Behaviour
"Do you know why teenagers get such a bad name," asked a friend recently. "It's because their parents are going through mid-life crises!" His daughter is only ten and I guess he was explaining away any...
31 comments78The Right Time for Marriage
I married late by most standards. Well, Indian standards at any rate. In this country if you haven't tied the knot by your mid-twenties you are relegated to a dusty shelf, an object of pity or derision. Not to...
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