Category: Writing

I participated in the regional round of a Sudoku Championship today and guess who trumped us all? A seventy years old man, who could safely be called one of the oldest people in a packed auditorium. You can imagine the surprised reaction, tinged with amusement and respect of everyone present. There were no novices there. [...]

The first full sentence that most of us were taught in school to write was: My name is ....... That is how we learnt to identify ourselves before the world. Our name became the most intrinsic part of us. There was always a glint of pride associated with it. Then how come a lot of [...]

What is the heart of any story? Or let me rephrase it. What is the heart of your favourite novel, television show or movie? Beyond doubt, everyone will name a certain character. For the same piece of work itself, different people may choose different characters depending on their taste. But there is no escaping the [...]

A few days ago, I was discussing something related to homosexuality with a friend. Ironically, the very next day came out the Supreme Court of India's ruling to decriminalize gay sex. It became the headline everywhere one looked, whether the newspapers, television or social media. Some people were happy, some not and others confused. It [...]

Fellow bloggers, how do you decide which topic to write on? Isn't that usually the most difficult part of any kind of written piece? That is because once that hurdle is passed, the rest becomes relatively easy. So how do you decide? Is it what you enjoy the most or don't? Is it what you [...]

"Yet another seminar..." thought Mia in low spirits. Mia was usually fine with sitting through seminars. But it was the character of that particular kind of seminars that she did not like. The one which was about to take place was one of the many that her school had organised to help teenagers come of [...]

English and Mathematics are very different subjects. Even the parts of our brain that are active for the two are different. Yet there is a certain math that is involved in any language and that includes English. This is called grammar. It is these set of rules that set a degree of restraint for the [...]

We have all seen both the talkers and the quiet. Depending on our luck, we might have come across too many or too few of any one kind. While the talkers find the quiet difficult to understand, weird or at times even rude, the quiet fully reciprocate their feelings! But I will let you in [...]

Very often, when someone is too particular about the correct usage of a language, they are labelled as Grammar Nazis. Many people find them extremely irritating and they have their reasons for it. After all, this is the age of technology where almost everyone is using all kind of shortcuts in order to text faster. Almost [...]