How Can We Matter

On this New Year's eve, Let's vow to heal the world, To make it better for our children, And our children's children, For, children are our future, and the planet's.

This may look like a Grade 10 student's exercise: In the picture, given Column A, give its meaning in Column B, and state in a single word, the quality (set of attributes, behaviors) of being Column A.

I realize that, at age 73, I have already become outdated and obsolete, especially if I were to have a conversation with my grandchildren of 18, 9, and 7 years!

Greetings sans ( without in French) contact is the most desirable method in this pandemic era. New forms of non-contact greetings are evolving in social circles. However, India's ageless ' namaste ' is the best contactless greeting ever invented by the mankind!

Health is commonly defined as the state of being free from illness or injury. However, listen to Dr B M Hegde's TEDx talk on what health really is!

Watch a superlative performance by a 9-year old boy from Himachal Pradesh in front of superstar Amitabh Bachchan!

Sometimes when I look up a particular address in Google Map, like that of a house, restaurant, shop, etc. I get that strange and creepy feeling when Google tells me about that place: 'You visited in (Month or Day)'! Especially when the visit was years ago and you have completely forgotten about it.

For those in the evenings of life, a 4-year period is a long duration with unhurried and slow changes.  But for teens, it is a period of accelerated learning on how to navigate 'change' in a fast paced world.