“Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak Knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.” ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth The date was February 1, 2018 and time 10.30 in the night. Alone in my home, I sat watching Dr Sambit Patra and Dr Shashi Tharoor excitedly debating the Union budget […]
Category: Anecdotal
Stories of real life experiences of the author
“No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity.” ― Rush Limbaugh Like everyone else, I too used to be prompted in the past to link my PAN and Aadhaar while e-filing my Income Tax returns. After entering the required data and clicking the ‘Link Aadhaar’ button, a message would appear telling me that the linking had […]
“A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who instead of aiming a single stone at an object takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.” – Samuel Johnson A few days back, I came across a short article shared […]
“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.” ― Edith Sitwell As you are reading this, millions of cells in your body are shrinking and pulling away from its neighbours. The surface […]
Dear Reader, The first posts on this blog were published on 26.10.2014. Thus, the first anniversary of this blog falls today. And I write this to express my gratitude for all those who have been supporting, encouraging and inspiring me in commencing and continuing with this venture. I had completed three articles for my blog during the period […]
“Our sincerest laughter, with some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought”. – Percy Bysshe Shelley My Mother and My Son (30.11.2013) On a day in the second fortnight of September 2015, my mother was wheeled into the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a hospital in the city. She […]
“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.” ― Joan Crawford It has been nearly half a century since I first stepped into the amazements and apprehensions of campus life. The move from rundown village schools to the sprawling grandeur […]
“When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell As the car moved out of Nagpur Airport for the second time that night, I anxiously glanced at my watch. […]
Dear Reader, Wisdomspot has completed one hundred days of its existence. Ten articles have been published during this period. And I write this today to thank you all for the support and encouragement I have been receiving from you. Wisdom, as all of us understand, is essentially the ability to apply knowledge, experience and insight […]
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” ― Albert Einstein Kernel Panic is the death cry of a computer system (running on UNIX). And this is the story of a computer system that lay on its […]
