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8th Day

Of Happiness, Hibiscus and Hungry Birds

Today, one of my favorite articles, is from Krishnaraj Iyengar, who has written about happiness, or more specifically how Finland has been named the happiest country in the world second year in a row. What makes its people so happy? And what exactly is happiness? 

Fighting for what exactly?

Are all rebellions of the common individual worthy? What about when in that rebellion the common individual is pitted against the common individual?

Plastic waste will surpass marine life by 2050

India has come to the fore as the world’s largest plastic polluter, releasing 9.3 million tonnes of plastic waste annually, according to a recent study. This accounts for approximately one-fifth of the global plastic emissions. 

The Dostoevsky dilemma

I first read Fyodor Dostoevsky’s, Crime and Punishment while still in school and inadvertently fell for the protagonist Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov for his intellectual intensity.

Hyderabad-based man tours 125 countries

in real life, Hyderabad-based Indranil Chowdhuri has turned out to be a globetrotter of our times, touring 125 countries in the world, including North Korea, Greenland, and Mongolia, often with hair-raising escapades.

R Raghuvindran Raju

Jaggi, the red-turbaned betel leaf-chewing senior TTE, was moving around the AC compartment as the crowd swarmed him. In his younger days, his senior and mentor had once told him, “Throughout the year you’ll have to loiter everywhere examining tickets. But then there will be days when people will haunt you. Yes, these are the days! When, if you can cash intelligently, you do drive home plenty of fluid cash.” Now, with age, he has mastered the required skills.