Bangalore: “Speak the truth, speak the pleasant, but do not speak the unpleasant truth,” former judge of the Supreme Court and the Chairman of the Press Council, Markandey Katju quoted shastras before revealing the unpleasant truth that 90 percent Indians are fools. “The country’s situation today requires that we say “Bruyat satyam apriyam”, i.e. “Speak the unpleasant truth” he wrote
Holi | Festival of Color | India
Holi, the festival of colour is celebrated on Phalgun Purnima which comes in February end or early March. Holi festival has an ancient origin and celebrates the triumph of ‘good’ over ‘bad’. People walk down their neighbourhoods to celebrate Holi by exchanging colours and spraying colored water on one another. A popular activity is the throwing of water balloons at
Upside Down : Anti-Gravity Yoga
In the West a few years boom continues more and more people begin to engage in a new kind of fitness antigravity yoga. Fundamentally a new kind of yoga devised by a gymnast from the United States, Christopher Harrison, who offered to do upside down. 1. The essence of this method is that yoga asanas are performed in a suspended
A Lesson for Every Salaried Person
A shopkeeper watching over his shop is really surprised when he sees a dog coming inside the shop, He shoos him away. But later, the dog is back inside again. So he goes over to the dog and notices that it has a note in its mouth. He takes the note and it reads “Can I have 12 soaps and
The Not So Cute Boyfriend (Hilarious)
Little Bruce and Jenny are only 10 years old, but they just know that they are in love. One day they decide that they want to get married, so Bruce goes to Jenny’s father to ask him for her hand. Bruce bravely walks up to him and says “Mr. Smith, me and Jenny are in love and I want to
Two Great Stories with Brilliant Ending
YOU NEED TO READ BOTH STORIES STORY NUMBER ONE Many years ago, Al Capone virtually owned Chicago . Capone wasn’t famous for anything heroic. He was notorious for enmeshing the windy city in everything from bootlegged booze and prostitution to murder. Capone had a lawyer nicknamed “Easy Eddie.” He was Capone’s lawyer for a good reason.. Eddie was very good!
The Unpleasant Truth: 90 Percent of Indians Are Fools
Bangalore: “Speak the truth, speak the pleasant, but do not speak the unpleasant truth,” former judge of the Supreme Court and the Chairman of the Press Council, Markandey Katju quoted shastras before revealing the unpleasant truth that 90 percent Indians are fools. “The country’s situation today requires that we say “Bruyat satyam apriyam”, i.e. “Speak the unpleasant truth” he wrote
My Bike
A Priest was about to finish his tour of duty in the jungle where he has spent years teaching the natives to be civilized and kind to each other when he realizes that the one thing he never taught them was how to speak English. So he takes the chief for a walk in the forest. He points to a
Little Lies
Richard is a strange liar. He lies on six days of the week, but on the seventh day he always tells the truth. He made the following statements on three successive days: Day 1: “I lie on Monday and Tuesday.” Day 2: “Today, it’s Thursday, Saturday, or Sunday.” Day 3: “I lie on Wednesday and Friday.” The Question: On which
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The following were taken from papers written by a class of 8-year-olds: WHAT IS A GRANDPARENT? Grandparents are a lady and a man who have no little children of their own. They like other people’s. A grandfather is a man, & a grandmother is a lady! Grandparents don’t have to do anything except be there when we come to see
Grandparents Answering Machine
At present we are not at home but, please Leave your message after you hear the beep. If you are one of our children, dial 1 and then select the option from 1 to 5 in order of “arrival” so we know who it is. If you need us to stay with the children, press 2 If you want to
Ten Inventions That Changed the World
10 Inventions That Changed the World 10: The Plow Compared to some of the gleaming, electronic inventions that fill our lives today, the plow doesn’t seem very exciting. It’s a simple cutting tool used to carve a furrow into the soil, churning it up to expose nutrients and prepare it for planting. Yet the plow is probably the one invention
Holi | Festival of Color | India
Holi, the festival of colour is celebrated on Phalgun Purnima which comes in February end or early March. Holi festival has an ancient origin and celebrates the triumph of ‘good’ over ‘bad’. People walk down their neighbourhoods to celebrate Holi by exchanging colours and spraying colored water on one another. A popular activity is the throwing of water balloons at
Good Luck? Bad Luck? Who Knows?
There is a Chinese story of an old farmer who had an old horse for tilling his fields. One day the horse escaped into the hills and, when all the farmer’s neighbours sympathised with the old man over his bad luck, the farmer replied, ‘Bad luck? Good luck? Who knows?’ A week later the horse returned with a herd of
