We live in a time when everyone seems to be rushing past one another, texting on their phones, chasing deadlines and targets or caught up in the rat race with little or no time to spend with family and friends, the company of people—even if they are total strangers—can be a pleasant and unexpected change.   Picture this.   One evening, at a restaurant in Bandra, a group of people from mixed backgrounds and probably little in common arrive one by one and share a table with so

We all want to feel happy. We want joy in our everyday lives. But we often look for it in big moments, when it can be found in our simple, everyday routines. Luckily, there are plenty of ways to find joy even in small, ordinary things, and to hold on to it for as long as we like. While these ideas aren’t new, they remind us how we can live a happy life—and how much of our own happiness is in our hands. Make time to meet people,  which means stepping out of your comfort zones

My dad taught me chess when I was in the second grade. By the time I was in the fourth grade, I was beating him—five out of ten games,...

Banner photo: anotherxlife on Unsplash/Post image: www.freepik.com My wife and I visited a popular book fair in South Mumbai. Like the circus, we look forward to the book sale whenever it comes to town. The book sale was held in a large assembly hall where hundreds of thousands of books —fiction and nonfiction, paperbacks and hardbacks—were tightly stacked front to back with their spines up, in rows upon rows that stretched longer than a bowling alley.   The place was bustlin

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When we have to change an opinion about anyone, we charge heavily to his account the inconvenience he thereby causes us. —Nietzche We...

Clichéd as this might sound, the pandemic taught us many lessons, the foremost of which was to stop living on autopilot and act with...